Bought a $200 'professional' spray booth filter system that clogged in 15 minutes on my first lacquer job.

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Lacquer is brutal on any filter system, it's basically designed to gum things up fast. Maybe the booth was rated for lighter hobby paints and you just hit it with the strongest stuff right away. A clogged filter after one job could mean it actually caught a ton of overspray like it's supposed to.

simonlee11h ago

My buddy Jake sprayed a single guitar body with automotive lacquer in his new booth. The intake filter looked like someone smeared thick syrup across it the next morning. He said the overspray was so heavy it felt like the filter just drank the paint. That stuff sets up like concrete.