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Saima BETA

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Fitment data is being verified. Our team is still cross-referencing manufacturer specs for the BETA. Confirm filter sizes with WERCS before ordering: request a fitment confirmation.

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Saima BETA Filter Fitments

Plenty of good booths are poorly documented on this side of the Atlantic, and the BETA is one of them. Saima Meccanica shipped equipment worldwide, and units reached North American shops through channels that did not always leave a paper trail: dealer imports, plant relocations, used-equipment sales. The owner of a BETA today typically has a solid, working crossflow booth and no filter chart. What that owner needs is a supplier who can turn frame measurements into the right media and keep supplying it, and that is a routine exercise.

Quick answer

The Saima BETA is a crossflow spray booth from Saima's Italian production, the line whose North American identity later merged into the Accudraft brand. Horizontal airflow gives its filter program two ends: intake filtration where air enters, arrestor media at the exhaust wall where overspray is captured. Published North American documentation on the BETA is thin, and our record for this model is drawn from the manufacturer's installation listings and is still being verified, so we do not publish panel sizes or counts for it. The supply path works anyway: measure the intake and exhaust frames, run them through a fitment check, and the confirmed spec becomes your repeatable order.

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How BETA shops choose filters

Intake side. As a crossflow design, the BETA depends on its intake filtration for finish quality, because incoming air sweeps horizontally across the workpiece on its way to the exhaust end. Whatever the intake stage passes, the part wears. When you measure for a fitment check, record each intake opening's frame dimensions and depth, and note whether the media sits in the doors, a front plenum, or both; the arrangement determines what media format seals correctly.

Exhaust side. The exhaust wall media does the capture work and drives the consumable budget. Measure the exhaust frame openings the same way, and note the media style currently installed, since a booth this age may be running whatever a previous supplier last put in rather than what the frame was designed for.

Locking the spec. Once the WERCS service team cross-checks your measurements against distributor and manufacturer catalogs, the confirmed sizes go on file against your booth. From then on the BETA is a normal reorder: intake media cycled on airflow hours, exhaust media cycled on loading. One measuring session ends the mystery permanently.

Regulatory landscape

An imported booth answers to the same rules as a domestic one. OSHA 29 CFR 1910.94(c) evaluates the ventilation as operated: maintained airflow, functioning exhaust filtration, no contaminated air returned to the workspace. NFPA 33 governs flammable spray application and treats loaded exhaust media as combustible residue to be changed and removed on schedule. Spraying coatings with NESHAP 6H target HAPs adds 40 CFR 63 Subpart HHHHHH: filtered exhaust maintained per documented practice, with records. The absence of an original English-language manual does not excuse the records requirement; a documented filter spec and change log stands in for the paperwork the booth arrived without.

Who runs the BETA

BETA owners tend to be second or third owners. Independent collision and refinish shops that bought the booth used, often with the building, and kept it because it works. Restoration and specialty shops that picked up European equipment at auction and appreciate the build quality. And the occasional industrial shop where a BETA arrived as part of a relocated production line. What unites them: a working booth, an unknown filter spec, and a history of buying close-enough media, fixed by one careful measuring session and a confirmed cross-reference.

BETA filter FAQs

There is no filter chart for my Saima BETA. How do I order correctly?

Measure and confirm. Record the frame dimensions and depth of every intake and exhaust opening, photograph the frames, and submit them through a fitment check. The WERCS service team cross-references the measurements against distributor and manufacturer catalogs and confirms the media spec before anything ships. That confirmed spec then sits on file for repeat orders.

What does Saima's relationship to Accudraft mean for my booth?

Saima's Italian line and the Accudraft brand merged over time, so today's Accudraft organization is the closest living relative of your booth's maker. For filters it matters mostly as context: fitment runs on measurement and catalog cross-reference rather than a current parts list. It does not affect media availability.

Is it safe to keep buying whatever filters the last supplier sold me?

Only if they actually match the frames. Orphaned booths accumulate substitution drift: each supplier approximates, and after a few cycles the media no longer seals or loads the way the design intended. A one-time verification either confirms your current media or quietly fixes years of drift.

Which filters wear out faster on a crossflow booth like the BETA?

Exhaust media, in any shop spraying at volume, because it meets concentrated overspray while intake media only meets shop air. Cycle the exhaust wall on differential pressure or visible loading, and hold the intake stage to a calendar based on airflow hours.

Can you supply filters for other Saima models too?

Yes. The BETA sits in a broader Saima family in our catalog, and the same measure-confirm-reorder path applies across the line. If you are not certain which Saima model you own, include nameplate and interior photos with your fitment check and identification becomes part of the same pass.

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