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Offline jason-23

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2013, 10:40:23 PM »
here is my homemade...
washout and dip tank total spent maybe $250

Looking at yours makes me want to unpost my pics.  Very nice build.
Thanks, it took about 2 hours to build the sink, the dip tank was a bitch...


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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2013, 10:47:12 PM »

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2013, 10:58:40 PM »
jason, how did you do the tank, wood and then fiberglass and gel coat the inside to waterproof and chem proof it? cool man. Every day I walk back to my easy way dip tank it seems to be bulging more and more. lol. I'm gonna do a clean rinse booth soon using a IBC 275 gal poly IBC tote. Cut the steel cage around it in half to use as a stand, then cut a big hole in the front to lay the screen in. The tanks already have a 2" drain hole in the bottom that a drain pipe or big dump hose can go on. Instead of another $1500 bucks on a screen klean system booth like I have now, a clean used IBC tote is about 10 bucks and then about 30 mins with a saws-all and plumb a drain.
3/4 plywood, four small casters, 12 L brackets, liquid nails, dry wall screws, fiber glass sheets in the inside corners and inside floor/bottom, and a lot of resin. Basically i went to lowes with my measurements had them cut it on that big ass stand up table saw thing, got all the other stuff, glued and screwed it together, let it set up over night. Then it got nasty with the fiberglass and resin. let that set up for awhile then reapplied the resin two or three more times and let it sit over night. Pressure tested it with water for a week with no leaks. Oh yeah there is a ball valve drain on the other side. drained it and the refilled with chems and water. I think I made that last spring and that is still my first batch of chemical dip. I f you remove all ink front the screen before dipping it, the chemicals seem to last longer but then again I dont do that much work these days. I need more lamps in the back. 

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2013, 01:00:56 AM »
I got lucky, I got paid a few bucks to pick up my CCI stainless HD booth and CCI diptank kit.

Brought the repo up to the company that had the used CCI... all said and done, I put a few bucks in my pocket on the deal. ;)

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2013, 07:05:20 AM »
Here is a bit different approach. Step-by-step


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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2013, 07:41:21 AM »
Nice. Very informative. I'm sure some can make good use of that post!

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2013, 09:05:34 AM »
Here is a bit different approach. Step-by-step
Looks good but mine is better... :P

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2013, 09:25:44 AM »
Here is a bit different approach. Step-by-step
Looks good but mine is better... :P

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It is not ....... LOL

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2013, 10:43:54 AM »
Nice Dennis--Did you use something like shower acrylic for the walls?  Looks like nice backlighting for sure.

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2013, 10:50:03 AM »
Nice Dennis--Did you use something like shower acrylic for the walls?  Looks like nice backlighting for sure.



I got 3 sheets of this:
http://freckleface.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/polypropylenesheetonequarterinchthick.html

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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2013, 10:58:08 AM »
Nice. Very informative. I'm sure some can make good use of that post!
you gonna build one arnt you...lol
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Re: homemade washout booth. Nothing beautimus but it works.
« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2013, 12:19:05 PM »
Haha. Actually we have four ginormous sinks. Two were given to us by McDermat when they bought Autotype if I remember.
The Screen Department was way overbuilt. Hell the restaurant style swinging doors cost $1800......and we have eight of those just in that department!