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Preliminary Process |
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Here you will see the Amazing Fog Machine from its humble beginnings as assorted pieces of wood, bottles, and pieces of scrap. |
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When we originally discovered that the only way to make a fog machine like a commercial one was to take a commercial one apart, we realized we would have to make just about everything, or take apart something and use a piece of it. The original plan was to make a heat source that could be submerged in fog juice that would be able to exist underwater without short-circuiting, have that quickly evaporate the fog, and have a fan to fill the room with fog. As this page will show, very little of the machine we actually built went according to this original plan...finding a good heat source that could be underwater didn't happen, the box had to be made of plywood, and the fog juice had to be outside of the machine and fed into the machine by way of a small hole. We did, however end up using a fan, which was about the only thing that stayed the same. Read on for the specific equipment used. |
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This plywood box helps to hold the Amazing Fog Machine together. |
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A hole in this bottle will provide a steady trickle of our fog juice without flooding the machine. |
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This soleplate from a 1960's era iron will help to heat the fog juice and evaporate it into fog. |
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Our recipe for fog juice is 4 fluid ounces of glycerin for every quart of distilled water. |
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This old computer fan propels the fog out of the machine. The attached transformer converts the current from an outlet to a lower, safer current that the fan can utilize. |
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Return to the Main Amazing Fog Machine Page. |
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