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Spray Booth
This waterfall spray booth was designed and
engineered by Tom Turner and you are welcome to copy it.
I have designed other spray booths, but never with a
waterfall before. It's really wonderful and I want to
pass it on to other potters. This starts with a three
piece shower stall from Lowes, along with a pond pump
and an attic fan also from Lowes. The shower stall is
cut to height, a platform built, a ceiling made for it,
the fan attached, and the water plumbed. I will have
small captions for each picture, you'll have to find the
parts and your way of assembly.
Finished spray booth with high and low pressure air
lines.
The fan motor, two lights inside, and the pond pump
are wired to the switch on the front of the booth, so
that when I turn the switch on, everything starts to
work. Have fun everyone. |
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Four piece shower stall
with the back and one side attached. |
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PVC pipe cut and
glued to fit into the top rear of the booth, but I ended
up using only the rear portion, not the sides.
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| An attic fan from Lowes,
buy the strongest they have relative to CFM (cubic feet
per minute)
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Holes drilled in the PVC at an angle
so that the water would be pumped onto the plexi glass
rear wall.
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Remove the shroud, or
outside cover. |
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Shows the venting of the spray booth
to the outdoors.
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Shows the water running down the plexi
glass rear wall.
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Build a platform strong enough to support everything and
at a height convenient for you. |
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Water running down the rear wall, with a deflector for
splatter, between the rear wall and a turn table.
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Bottom of
shower stall sits on the platform, over a 10 gallon
plastic can which will house the pond pump. The pump
pumps the water to the top of the booth, where the water
drains down the inside of the shower stall and exits
like all shower stalls do, back into the 10 gallon can.
The pump is attached with plastic hose to the PVC
plastic lines inside the booth with holes in it . |
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Turn table, deflector, rear wall.
Turn table and at the bottom of the rear plexi glass
wall, that the water runs down, a piece of 1/8th inch
hardware cloth screen, so that the water runs over the
screen creating a solid wall of water that the glaze
spray must be pulled through before exiting the booth.
Without this, there is not a solid wall of water.
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Shower stall cut to
height and sitting on the platform. |
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Hole cut in the back wall of the shower
stall. |
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Attic fan attached to the
rear of the shower stall. |
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Shows the top installed
and 2x4's attached to the rear corners so that a piece
of plexi glass can be attached to them, leaving an air
passage from the bottom of the spray booth to the fan
and out the exhaust. This plexi glass will be seen in
other photos and is what the water runs down. |
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