Fog-chillers and Web Spinners

donkathon

donkathon

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I have basically mastered a fog-chiller for my consumer fog machine, (its making phenomonal low-lying fog). Does anyone have any way to make an extreme fog chiller?

Also, what ways do you make effective fake spider webs using a spinner. I hooked up a fan blade to a power-drill, and found a way to add a container at the end. How do you make the spider webbing? Rubber cement? Anyone have an effective way of making webs?
 
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seriously, no. Maybe spraycan halloweeney stuff that should be coming out soon. ?
 
pto- are you a fellow Halloweenie?

A few years ago I made a really cool fog chiller. I got a plastic cauldron and a long piece of that metal piping that looks like an accordian. I drilled some holes into the cauldron, and attached the piping to it.

Then fill the cauldron with ice, and pump the fog through the tube. The effects was low laying fog pouring out of the cauldron- very cool. Can't wait for Halloween, it's my favorite holiday by far.

Also, I've seen plans for a web sprayer using a drill and glue sticks from a glue gun. I'll try to find them.
 
If you could find an old cotton candy machine, you could take off the bowl and just use the spinner part to throw the web.

Messy messy messy. Rubber cement is flammable, too, so be careful.
 
TC said:
pto- are you a fellow Halloweenie?

A few years ago I made a really cool fog chiller. I got a plastic cauldron and a long piece of that metal piping that looks like an accordian. I drilled some holes into the cauldron, and attached the piping to it.

Then fill the cauldron with ice, and pump the fog through the tube. The effects was low laying fog pouring out of the cauldron- very cool. Can't wait for Halloween, it's my favorite holiday by far.

Also, I've seen plans for a web sprayer using a drill and glue sticks from a glue gun. I'll try to find them.
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Your looking at Concord, NC's biggest Halloween freak. I transform my entire porch into a room by adding walls and put a TON of stuff in it. And for fog chiller, I have found out that simply putting the fog machine almost directly into a container full of ice, and then letting it out through a hole on the opposite end makes an extremely good looking effect- it doesnt have a long tube to travel through, because mine is a 400watt consumer fogger that only makes 2500 cupic feet per minute. Though, if you have the same power in your fogger, I may consider re-inventing.

And GenJerDan, could you explain about this cotton candy contraption? I have the machine, but wouldnt sugar make everything sticky?
 
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pto2212 said:
And GenJerDan, could you explain about this cotton candy contraption? I have the machine, but wouldnt sugar make everything sticky?
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Sticky, yes. Dusting everything after the application with flour or talc or such should cut down on the ambient stickiness. And no matter what you use, it's gonna be a mess to clean up. (Although sugar might be easier than cement, since it's water-soluable. And edible. :) )

But you could probably use the rubber cement in the spinner, yes? Or are the holes too big?

But if you've already made the rig with the fan and container, it would probably be just as easy and effective to use that. For that, yes, the rubber cement.
 
GenJerDan said:
Sticky, yes. Dusting everything after the application with flour or talc or such should cut down on the ambient stickiness. And no matter what you use, it's gonna be a mess to clean up. (Although sugar might be easier than cement, since it's water-soluable. And edible. :) )

But you could probably use the rubber cement in the spinner, yes? Or are the holes too big?

But if you've already made the rig with the fan and container, it would probably be just as easy and effective to use that. For that, yes, the rubber cement.
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Yea, it says use rubber cement, but problem is, I dont know how much or how to put it in, or how to make the holes. I guess what Im trying to say is I'm fed up with that Wal-Mart webing, because it looks awful and is inconvenient, and was wondering how the Halloweenies here at the forums did their webs. There must be a practical way to produce them...

But that cotton candy idea isnt bad... not bad at all... I can see myself now eating the spider web. (til I eat a real web, and the Black Widow that was hanging in it.)
 
Makes sense, but its quite expensive... I may put up some video of my fogger and the chiller I made... its looking really nice with each improvement.
 
Hmph. Wouldnt that all melt so quickly. Here in Carolina, its still in 90s when halloween comes around. How do you keep that stuff cold... especially in California.
 
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