Got down to the garage around 10AM and reassembled the booth. It was a bit of a pain to do it solo, but I managed to get it back to where I left off last weekend in about 20 minutes.
Laid out the sheeting for the floor and cut the velcro into little pieces. I really hate getting on my hands and knees, but after about an hour I'd finished the floor. Repeated the process for the ceiling and it went much faster just because I was standing in a much more comfortable position. It only took about 20 minutes to finish the ceiling.
I designed the housing for the fans originally with the intent of dropping them in place and jamming a filter into the opening with some foam pipe insulation around it. Well, that didn't work at all. The filter itself was far to flimsy for this to work.
So now I've got to figure out how to make what I have work. I think when I looked up the dimensions of the fan on the Home Depot web site I didn't think to write down the name and model of the fan. When I went to buy the fan I just got whatever 20 in. fan was in stock.
As luck would have it the fan had a depression in the handle that made for a great retainer. The thing just snapped into place like I meant to do it that way all along. I sealed the gaps around the perimeter with duct tape then attached the filters to the fan on the inside with more duct tape.
I'm so glad to be done with this. I had no idea just how much effort it would take. All told I think I spent about 10 hours designing it (3 iterations on SolidWorks) and another 30 or so building it.
I can finally prime!!!
Finally it's done! The shop needs a good cleaning before I prep my parts for priming.
Fans fit in place almost perfectly. Duct tape around the sides seals it up.
The filters are attached on the inside and held in place with duct tape.
