You guys have your own indoor waterfalls?!

[OscarG]

Just seen this online. Someone at Fender spraying a guitar in front of a waterfall. From the comments I gather it’s to catch the overspray.

Pretty unusual, never seen this before.

How many of you have a waterfall at home? :wink:

 

[Eric The Viking]

Clever idea, but with so many practical issues arising from it, not least humidity and temperature control. Then there's "reverse overspray" - keeping the water in the air away from the workpiece...

... of course it works well for the space industry, but on a larger scale :wink:

 

[Terry Smart]

It's a 'water wash spray booth' , very common (or at least used to be) in the spraying industry, it's not so much that the water 'catches' the overspray more that it saves having to replace filters and backings so often.
Used properly, with the correct conditions, they don't normally cause any problems.

Not cheap either, so very much a commercial thing.

 

[AES]

Seen quite a few in professional spray shops (they have a specialised air/draught system to stop spray back too) but never in a private/hobby shop.

As suggested, it COULD be possible in a large private shop (USA???) but does need the above special air handling/extraction system as well as the water fall to work properly. VERY expensive.

(BTW, the paint shop at Swissair when I worked there also had a method of removing the "dead" paint from the re-circulated ("waste") water - environmental regs). NOT something I can see me installing in my own cellar!