Spray enclosure built to contain noise, dust, fumes and ultraviolet light. Plasma and HVOF guns run well above 120 dB, so the booth has acoustic walls, an exhaust drawing through a dust collector, and viewing windows, and operators run the robot from a console outside. Booth also names the job itself: someone working the booth on a shift is spraying, not masking or blasting.
Heard on the job
Booth two is down for a dust collector filter, move the HVOF lot to one.
Also heard as
- spray booth
- spray cell
- enclosure
- sound room
Related terms
Overspray
Spray material that misses the part or fails to stick, ending up in the collector or on nearby surfaces.
Gun
Booth word for the thermal spray torch itself, whether plasma, HVOF, arc or flame.
Detonation gun
Process that fires powder from a long barrel using repeated explosions of oxygen and acetylene.