It’s a paint booth, soldering booth, dehydrator, 3D printer enclosure. There’s a blower on the back that pulls air through the vent and filter, then shoots it out the window. I’ll be adding a smaller fan inline for weaker extraction when needed (dehydration).
Made around 70-80% of it from recycled materials… mostly stainless steel panels pulled off appliances like fridges. Bent then riveted everything together.
The lights and other stuff attached to the peg board can quickly be removed, then I drop in the base of a crappy $20 dehydrator and I have cheap racking that runs across the entire enclosure, I can put products on there to speed dry the paint and not have to worry about dangerous fumes.
Here’s a couple pics of the window exhaust. If ever someones looking for a business idea, people will pay a couple hundred bucks + for this kind of window setup if they have a portable AC, or need an exhaust for their indoor workshop etc.
The splitter is made is freecad and can be 3d printed. That way if I get a dedicated enclosure for the 3d printer, or if I start pulling air out of the shapeoko enclosure I could feed 2 exhausts out.
It’s a cast acrylic sheet, 0.187". I have a s3 xxl but the piece required too much length (I’m not setup for tiling) so I just ripped it on a table saw then cut the main exhaust hole with the CNC. smaller mounting holes were made with a hand drill to ensure no screw ups.
There’s a window behind the acrylic sheet in the pictures.The acrylic is sitting in the frame where the screen used to be.
Also I mounted some cheap chrome handles to the acrylic so it can easily be removed if I need the window open for fresh air.
Creating a custom sign for our club at work. We try hard to make sure we are putting our money into the right “buckets”, so we meet once a month to discuss our “portfolios”. Design to almost done. I’m going to add a texture layer on the background, and will post the final product.
My good friend posted his “need” on Instagram…I knew he was talking directly to me…My response…“I got you”. There are definitely some things that I could have done better, but learning new techniques while creating things for friends is very rewarding. Let me know if you want to know the techniques used.
Original post request with his old hand-made sign:
Question: The text on text, would the base name stand out a bit more if you had used a darker stain or lightly burn it.? Just my observation with the light and angle I see there.
The big thing I would recommend is to learn a bit more about typography.
The Addison grace sign is quite cute, but is marred by vertically stretching/horizontally compressing the type — instead, get a set of fonts which have a wide range of widths — Adrian Frutiger’s Univers was actually designed around this conceit, hence the poster, and the type specimen booklet:
Similarly, while lining numbers are the norm, they have two problems in their usage which show in your sign:
they don’t align with a hyphen, since it is vertically placed so as to align with lowercase letters
they read as all caps (since they are the size of capitals) and assume a greater importance than they should have in most instances — three-quarter height numbers such as were used in Warren Chappell’s Trajanus would perhaps be better, or perhaps old-style figures would have worked better
I wrote a little about this sort of thing in a small booklet which is at:
DUDE! That is AWESOME! Nice work. I loved that you made that from an old piece of scrap pine. Way cool. Did you use any special techniques to get the board back to your zero points when you flipped it over? Was it still square at that point?
Thank you Will. That was one of the first signs that I made a couple of years ago and was more of a practice to get the technique of different layers down and using the paint masking technique as well. I didn’t really pay too much attention to the fonts as much as I did the layers a toolpaths. But I do appreciate the insite into fonts. I never looked at it that way and as I get into more detailed signs will certainly give your book a read. Thanks so much for including it.
Thanks Davey. I setup a jig on my machine so that I could remove and replace in the same spot without having to re-zero each time. I don’t think it’s convex, but it might be slightly… good eye.
