I created an airbrushing booth so I can now spray in the Rocket Bunker and not have to wait till a nice day outside. I have been looking into doing this for a while. Every time I consider it, it is too much effort or time or cost. I originally was going to make it out of wood, all framed and everything. Then I saw one on the web made out of HVAC venting. That was nice, but damn that stuff costs, even if the booth would last a life time. Well recently I was at the orange box store strolling through the aisles letting my mind drift to projects I'd like to accomplish. I was in the plumbing area and thought about some of the things I have seen made with the PVC pipe.
I could make the airbrushing booth out of PVC pipe covered in plastic. I pulled out some receipts out of my pocket and started sketching on the back of them a general idea to see how many and what type couplings I would need. In searching the aisles, of course Home Depot didn't have the couplings I needed in stock.I came home and started doing some investigating on line, well here was something, they had what they called Furniture PVC and while the couplings were a tad more expensive. I wondered what type of quality and strength the "furniture grade stuff had. When we moved into where we are now, among other things there was a laundry hamper made out of PVC. it was kinda cheap, but it stood about six feet tall, four feet wide and 1 and a half deep. and was dirty having just sit down there all this time.....
Well last night I finished cleaning it up, taking off the cloth hamper bags and covering it in Plastic drop cloth. I still have some things to do to it like create an outlet for the old vacuum cleaner and making a shelf out of peg board, but this is going to cost less than 5 bucks when finished.
pictures later
. It started with the air compressor. There was a slow leak somewhere which would cause the compressor to run every six hours or so if left on. While that is not that bad, I had gotten tired of being reminded at 2 a.m. that I had forgotten to turn the compressor off. 
While cranking down all the joints, somehow the outlet gauges back plate became warped and wouldn't let the needle read past 3 bars. 
I had the old little 3 gallon tank which quit running, so I switched out the gauges from that. Of course when I tightened the fitting with the gauge, the dial couldn't be read when it was tight. 
So I took the valve fitting off and cleaned the threads of the tape and was happy I hadn't returned the neighbors joint compound yet.
By the end of all that I then went to spray the Mars Snooper and noticed the ding in the nozzle. 