Fun with Fog Generators 223
BoomZilla writes "Only
10 or so shopping days to Halloween. If you're at a loss for a project
this weekend check out gotfog.com for
a full set of detailed instructions on the construction of a Fog
chiller. "What's a fog chiller?" you may ask. And rightly so.
Let me explain. A fog machine dumps fog juice on a heating plate to
produce oodles of the white, floaty stuff. Problem is that it doesn't
hug the ground like you see in the movies. An alternative that is employed
to create the ground-hugging variety of fog is a dry ice machine (which
heats up dry ice and disperses the resultant cloud of fog). The problem is
that dry ice is (a) expensive and (b) not always that easy to get. Enter
the fog chiller. The chiller can be built very inexpensively (major cost
is the sacrifice of a largish cooler) and works with a regular fog machine
that consumes low-cost fog juice. Go on, give it a try. You know you want
to. And just imagine the look on the faces of your little ghouls and
ghosts come the 31st when your house looks like boot hill on steroids."
Fog chiller already in the works! (Score:5, Interesting)
Glow sticks and some tin foil reflectors make for good glowing green fog, by the way.
Re:Dry Ice (Score:5, Interesting)
Fog + Lasers = Fun! (Score:4, Interesting)
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the abovementioned web site.
Warning: Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Dry ice isn't that expensive... (Score:5, Interesting)
Last halloween I bought several pounds of dry ice from a local industrial chemical supply store for about $15 total. I placed the dry ice in a cheap black 5 gallon "witches cauldron", which I got from the local Haloween store.
To create the fog, I simply placed the ice in the cauldron, and periodically added warm water when I saw trick-or-treaters. The warm water melts the ice, and you get fog.
The dry-ice provided enough fog rolling down my front steps to freak out the neighborhood kids. This fog lasted approximately 4 hours.
For added effect, I placed a couple of those green and red glow sticks inside the cauldron (Since glow sticks glow less when cold, I placed the sticks on a pedestal above the cold ice and water), replaced my porch light with a black light, and added a bunch of those green-spiderwebs from the halloween store.
This gave the whole porch a nice eerie glow, especially with the green-glow eminating from the cauldron.
Whole cost of this operation, including dry ice $15 for several pounds), cauldron ($5 at halloween store), black light ($2 at hardware store), glow sticks ($2 each) and spiderwebs ($3 a pack) was probably $25. I'm going to do the same thing this year.
Re:THE TRUTH ABOUT HALLOWEEN (Score:3, Interesting)
If you're going the fundamentalist route, then you might want to boycott Christmas, too - Jesus wasn't born on December 25th - this date was used as a convenience, because it coincided with many non-Christian solstice festivals. (It made it easier to convert the heathens if you could show them how similar your religion was to theirs - not too much change is needed).
I'm just suggesting that for holidays, 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'. Relax, and have fun. I can guarantee you that any children out there who turn to Satanism aren't influenced by Halloween.
Call the Fire Dept. (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Next in the scene? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Chainsaws, Fog Machines and Stage Lighting (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Chainsaws, Fog Machines and Stage Lighting (Score:4, Interesting)