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Need Advice - Paint Colors to Hide Dust in Digital Fab Lab

Posted by thinktankgroup 
Need Advice - Paint Colors to Hide Dust in Digital Fab Lab
July 10, 2017 11:30AM
Hi! We're opening a one-of-a-kind innovation/fabrication lab (our KUKA kr150 r3100 arrives today!), and we're trying to select paint (wall and ceiling) that will look great and will give us the most efficient work space possible.

Does anyone have any insights or advice on what color of paint and sheen best hide the kind of dust and debris that come with working in this kind of lab? What type/color of paint have you found is a great camouflage for dust and is best for washing down / keeping clean?

BACKGROUND:
- We're working with materials like wood, foam and metals
- Our space is made up of CMU Walls / Metal Decking / Steel Trusses
- We want to choose paint shades and sheens that camouflage dust and debris as much as possible

Thanks in advance for any insights that you can provide!
Re: Need Advice - Paint Colors to Hide Dust in Digital Fab Lab
July 10, 2017 06:11PM
Colors will also affect the humans in the space. An example of the wrong color for a space is painting the galley of a boat yellow. It increases the likelyhood of sea sickness yawning smiley
Re: Need Advice - Paint Colors to Hide Dust in Digital Fab Lab
July 10, 2017 08:06PM
Most all of the industrial paint shops in the automotive plants use robots protected in some sort of bag or sheet material with a grated floor and running water in a channel below to gather the over-spray from the robot. Most of the spray booths I've worked in and seen all have glass windows and the ones that aren't all glass windows are usually ANSI61 grey. Over time however, the grating usually becomes a grayish shade of purple which is I believe the result of all the colors combining over time on the grating. The key thing probably isn't the color of your spray booth, but the means to which you capture the air in the booth and the excess over spray paint and what you do to keep it off the robot itself. Most of the automotive plants keep the robots protected in custom fit sleeves and replace at given intervals.
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