Portable Paint Fume Extraction Machines
If you are a Smart Repairer, or in any trade which produces paint spraying fumes, you may have found a lack of choice when it comes to extracting these spray fumes without installing a spray booth?
When spraying outdoors, providing you follow the recommended guidelines by HSE, the spray mist isn't really an issue. However, when you move to spraying indoors, they not only become unpleasant, they are extremely bad for your health. If you are spraying a product which contains isocyanate, found in all 2k primers and lacquers, it is not only unpleasant and harmful indoors, but also illegal if it isn't extracted through a filtered extraction machine of some description.
The only options I found available when I moved to working indoors, were to install a small spray booth, which would take up most of the available space in my workshop, or some portable extraction machines on the market, which were nothing more than a welding fume extractor, with a name change and an inflated price! Neither of these were appealing to me, so along with an engineer with vast experience building spray booths, we set about finding a better solution and for the past 8 years we have now grown vastly providing bulk units to companies throughout the UK and abroad, as well as independent businesses.
Spraymate portable paint fume extraction machines
There are 2 sizes of Spraymate Fume Extraction Machines available. Spraymate 1, (taller machine), has 3 sides with filters to catch the wet over spray and fumes, and one side where they are vented out through a 6 metre length flexible ducting tube. Spraymate 2 is smaller, but equally powerful carrying the same motor and fan as spraymate 1 but has an extra filter wall on the top surface, ideal if you are mobile and need a slightly more portable solution. Both machines move an incredible, one cubic metre of air, per second, 3600 per hour.
The flexible ducting tube can be placed through an open door or window, or fitted more permanently to a vent in the wall. Additional 6 metre lengths of ducting can be joined if necessary, which can be purchased at the same time with your order.
As the fumes have been filtered, they are acceptable to be put directly out to atmosphere, in the same way as a spray booth does, providing spray painting is allowed at your site. The filters are the same as those used in a full sized spray booth extraction wall and the machine houses an extremely powerful fan, which draws the fumes in through these filters, before blowing them out through the ducting. The motor runs on a normal three pin socket for single phase electricity supply, or can be ordered to run on three phase, or 110v. It can be wheeled around the workshop and located near to your spraying area, or left in the direction of your spray mist and will rapidly remove the overspray. These machines are hand built in UK to order and carry a CE marking.
The Portable Fume Extractor As Used By Auto Brite
We have recently moved units and have now built a dedicated spraying room, including extraction with our larger machine. This room measures 6.5m x 4m x 2.4m and when spraying up to a full side of a vehicle, this machine clears the room in 1 minute. With our custom built fire rated PVC curtains, which we also supply, we have made our purpose built room and have helped other businesses with plans and advice to include our machines, throughout Europe.
When carrying out a standard sized Smart repair in our old unit, and spraying in a 500 sq ft open workshop, the draw of air from the machine is enough to clear the room within 5 minutes. This is from experience using the machine every day for all priming, application of base coat and obviously lacquering and I can honestly say that as well as using an air fed mask as in HSE guidlines, it works fantastically. If you can build a smaller spray area, the machines will clear the overspray far quicker, but in an open room, there is no other machine which will safely remove these fumes as well as these.
We have supplied our hand built paint fume extraction machines to many different trades and have received nothing but positive feedback. These have included, Train project companies, Engineering design companies, Stage set production companies, Bicycle repair/custom builders, Boat painters, Motorcycle sprayers, Furniture painters, Caravan repairers, Car main dealers, Storage container operators, Vehicle testing facilities and even several Airports as well as Smart repairers throughout the UK and Europe.
If You Are Interested In Purchasing A Spraymate
The units are made to order and generally take up to 2 weeks from order to delivery, but if you would like to see one working, you are welcome to visit our Express Bodyshop, where it is used every day. They are shipped to you on a pallet straight from the manufactures and ready to use straight away. In my opinion, there really is no better, safer, more suitable fume extraction machine for portable use and better still, less than half the price of the limited options available! If comparing our machines to others which have come to market recently, it is the air movement which sets ours apart, as well as the build quality. We are not a supplier of goods we have no experience in using, we sell a machine we have used every day and depend on.
For more information, prices and availability, please call 01489 578302 or email: sgheathorn@gmail.com