Explosion risk??

[neilgrahamirwin@hotmail.c]

Hi everyone, looking for some opinions here, I spray brackets using chassis black synth paint using one of those earlex hvlp spray guns, I spray in the corner of my garage and have a fume extractor which vents to outside, i have the suction nozzle bit just by where i spray so overspray goes straight out and i don't generate clouds of mist. I have a fluorescent light on the ceiling above where i spray and someone mentioned that it could all be an explosion risk. The brackets i spray are small (about 50cm long bracket) and I spray about 50 at a time, it takes about 20 mins to spray (obviously not constant spraying, i probably only use about 200ml of paint to do the whole lot). So what do you all think, am i about to blow the garage up or do you think its fine? I imagine people spray a lot more in their garages without problems??
many thanks, neil

 

[langy]

I have 18 x 6ft tubes where I paint and never had a problem

 

[pedrobedro]

If the lights are on when you start spraying and you leave them on after so any vapour clears there should be no problem. The boiler factory I worked in had fluorescents over the spray bay and had no fires or explosions in the years I was there.

 

[neilgrahamirwin@hotmail.c]

I have 18 x 6ft tubes where I paint and never had a problem

I'm probably worrying too much, i guess it's more of an issue if you are painting a large object like a car panel when the spray gun is going for ages

 

[brightspark]

dont wurry about it it would need a lot of vapour and a good spark to ignite it in my earlier years used to respray cars and have a fag no probs

 

[rikrobson]

someone mentioned that it could all be an explosion risk.

who?? are they an explosives expert?