Easy DIY Fog Screen
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- How to make a simple pipe-based setup to create a fog screen.
For this you will need some pipe, (I use 1.5" pipe and a few elbows, an end cap, a coupler), a fog machine, a way to chill the fog, and a projector with something to project.
My Iceless Fog Chiller:
• Roberts Fogger: The or...
Fog screen with bucket:
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I subscribed within 30 seconds. I've seem a lot of attempts at these screens, generally in three groups - ultrasonic water, hot fog, and chilled fog. Professionals seem to use chilled fog, and you're the first (only?) video to nail it.
I'll have to try this tomorrow. Thank you for not being one of those trade secret hoarders. We were going to get something like this from TransWorld one year but they wanted thousands of dollars for what should be simple engineering. We tried pipes and had a condensation issue with ground foggers, A2 and A4 from Froggy's Fog, but I might try to bring back the manual chillers we had years ago with one of our smaller foggers like the one you have in the video. Thanks again for your work and teaching, best of luck!
Thank you! I hope this works out for you. I had considered keeping the method a secret and maybe selling kits. But I just don't have the energy or time to keep track of everything involved. And besides, I learned so much from other haunters through old web pages like "the monster list of halloween projects" that I figured this was a way to pay it back to those that I learned from and maybe inspire new prop makes to continue to create and share. Thank you for watching! I'd love to hear how this works for you.
Thank you so much for this video!!! I had no idea this was so simple. Great tutorial!
Thank you! Happy haunting!
thank you for this
i don't know if i'm going to be able to do it but this is such a great idea
Nice.
I have a friend with a garage bar , that would be very interested in this.
They like to drink rainier and it mushrooms in it. They already have lasers and fog. This would add just a bit more.
Awesome, I want do something next Christmas that is stealthy. Not really big, but effective. Thanks for posting.
I've always wanted to try one of those fog screens/curtains but never gotten around to it. Job well done as always man, that is a great effect with the projection on it.
Thanks man! If you have a fog chiller, this is a fairly easy add-on. It just doesn't work well with wind. But I use it indoors, so that helps.
Thank you so much, an absolutely massive help!
Love that intro! Very cool! Can’t wait to see how you incorporate all of these cool details into your dark ride this year....
Keep up the great work!
Thank you! The idea is to have this blocking the path of the cart.... A ghost flies toward the guests timed with a blast of air just as they are about to pass through the screen.
But sadly, I will not have any indoor portions this year due to covid concerns.
That's why I'm looking forward to your build!!!
intocoasters That’s a great idea! It’s a bummer....COVID has screwed so many things up for so many people unfortunately! As far as my ride goes, I don’t think it’ll be as good as yours but I hope it turns out okay... 🤞
this is an incredible resource, thank you!
You're very welcome!
I was hoping you were going to do this tutorial, thank you.
Thank you! Its my pleasure. If you have any questions, let me know. I love sharing projects like this!
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Awesome! Thank you. I spend most weekends tinkering in my garage. I am just starting with lasers myself!
I love this video! Such great examples giving me ideas to go on. Have you tried adding a ball valve in instead of moving it out for the air gap?
I have a few atmosphere fx screens i use to project outside but it really needs to be dark for it to look great. I wonder if i can add this setup to it so it looks brighter!
Wow! This is so cool! Did you experiment much with drilling more holes but smaller ones or larger ones? Just knowing a little about air turbulence, I wonder if I could make the air less turbulent to create a clearer fog screen? I"m going to do some testing so if you have any info, I would appreciate it!
Great stuff! Loved this video and your enthusiasm! Keep it up brother!
Any updates on your experiment?
Dude now that’s an intro! That was awesome and great effect! Sort of reminds me of a reverse of your reaper mirror doorway from a few years back. So cool! Thanks for sharing.
Pretty sure we spotted a 12ft skeleton hiding back there in your shop! 💀😉 hope y’all are doing great and staying safe!
Busted. Yes... I'm part of the 12'skele club.
Thanks!! And you're more correct than you know. This is the EXACT same fog screen used for that effect. I just had the tube on the floor and did not chill the fog.
Good eye!
that last bit blew my mind! i would not expect giving space to the fog machine and teh tube would make that drastic of a change. i wonder why?
I have only done a little light research into this - so I don't really know. But I *think* its the Venturi effect or Bernoulli effect or some bit of both.
I did find a video that is an excellent visual explination.
czcams.com/video/Na9ORhYjvJU/video.html
@@intocoasters woohoo, Science!
Because it is drawing air into the chiller, trading volume for density. In his case the additional volume allows more water vapor to be forced out of the chiller, making it appear to create more fog. Without the water tank and ultrasonic, you just get a similar effect as blowing the fog through a small fan. Bigger cloud that is easier to see through.
Nice old Shopsmith you're using as a drill press. I have the same machine with all attachments. Mine's currently set up as a lathe.
Ha! I love it when someone noticed background details! Good catch! I have a separate 7" lathe that is good for the 2 or 3 things I turn in a year.
@@intocoasters Mine is coming up on needing a new belt, but they're great machines. Nothing made like them today that I'm aware of. I mean, there are obviously better drill presses, lathes, disc sanders, table saws, etc... but I don't know of another all-in-one machine that matches up. If you're cramped for space, you can't beat it.
Anyway, thanks for the video. Gave me some good ideas for this upcoming Halloween.
You're awesome. Thanks for sharing the video
Thank you very much!
The reason that the gap provides better throughput is based on Bernoulii's principle
@@Brassmonk3 yes indeed. I wish I could go back and edit part of a video without having to re-upload a whole thing. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for showing.
My pleasure as always! Thank you
Amazing result. I loved your explanations to get more fog. I was doing it the wrong way all the time by sticking the fog machine directly into the pipes. Thank you so much for the fog curtain idea too. Are you also familiar and do you use the ultrasonic mist makers too?
Thank you so much! And I'm glad this was helpful. And to answer your question about ultrasonic, check out this link, czcams.com/video/o5M-YbGWf4g/video.html
@@intocoasters so cool, thank you!
Very cool intro 👍
Hey a colleague and I built this a while back for a project and want to cite you in the credits of the project! How would you want to be cited? Thanks again for making such stellar videos and helping the community so much with all these tutorials.
Well that's fun! Thank you. I guess my name, Eric, and the channel name "intocoasters" would be fine.
And thank you for watching the videos.
I learned so much online from people before me, I feel like making these tutorials helps pay them back as well as pay it forward..
Happy haunting!
I moved to Montana last year and this will be my first Halloween here with my GF I warned her in advance I am a huge fan of Halloween and love to decorate and everything for it. I Told her of the one year in Indiana when I set up a Hologram and had kids thinking I was running a haunted house when all it was is my tiny little front porch I closed in with black plastic and hologram and fog machine (No chiller). This year I got a nice front yard I will be transforming and everything and will be dressed up passing out candy. I have even went as far as setting up a facebook group and writing a story about a Demon that is in the town I moved to so maybe as to get the adults into it as well (I will be dressed as a Demon this year and have been giving little hints and clues in the story as to what I will be looking like and where I will be found in town to see how many will figure it out and all. I may end up getting a second 1000 watt fog machine and doing a wall like this behind me with the Fire also maybe a second area with a Random Ghost showing up at random times to scare people more. I will be using your Roberts Fogger set up I just bought a pond mister and am wondering if I was to add ice in the water if it would help or hurt the effect of the fog laying low longer.
Thank you! And I love the idea of creating a backstory.
Hopefully some people will notice and connect the dots!
Very cool! I was thinking of how I could do this for outside, but unfortunately you said it doesn't do well outside.
I have that exact same projector and will be using it for my Christmas display.
Thanks for the tip on drawing the line on the pipe!
Thank you!
And I wish it worked outside too. I would love to have it for a character appearance or something.
This projector is surprisingly good. I was skeptical. Make sure to protect it from the weather!
Brilliant!
Thank you!
Why do you chill the fog? I'm new at this. Thank you for the assistance
The fog coming out of the machine is hot and because it's hot it rises. You have to cool it so that it falls/ stays close to the ground
Are you said you wasn’t doing the ghost train this year maybe you could show us how all your props work with the ghost train system
This is great, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Any tips to prevent indoor fog from setting off smoke alarms?
Thank you!
My builder left these covers for the detectors if I ever repaint/spray the rooms. They look like shower caps that stretch over the unit. These might help.
In my garage, I have heat detectors I stead of smoke so I haven't had that issue.
Instead of a bucket and ice could you use a small 16 qt freezer which gets to about -4
Couldn't you just use an increaser on the end of the pipe for a larger diameter to allow air to enter around the fog machine outlet?
I don't see why not. This demo was put together with stuff I had lying around.
Hi just how long does your ice bucket last .before it melts how many hours would you get out of a bucket of ice regards Greg
Hi Greg, thanks for asking. I get less than 2 hours of useful cooling from the orange bucket without adding more ice.
The iceless fog chiller in the aquarium will outlast the tank of fog juice. More than 3 hours of use and still outputs low lying fog (with a fog fluid refill once during the evening)
very cool my friend thanks for sharing !! HFL!!
Thank you! I figured it was time to show how I used the fog chiller. LoL
Amazing video. I’ve replicated the bucket fog chiller to your same specifications. However getting good results. I’m wondering if I have incorrect airflow? I saw an earlier video you did and it appeared you had fog entering from the lower/shorter tube. Your guidance is appreciated
Do you chill it with regular ice? Would dry ice work better and last longer?
In this case I am using a water-based fog chiller that I built. Here's the video for that. czcams.com/video/o5M-YbGWf4g/video.html
I used to use ice but it had to be refilled often. I have never used dry ice, so I don't know how that would work.
Hopefully this helps.
Can you use any size pipe or do you need 1 1/2 “ pvc pipe?
Any size pipe should work. I find that smaller pipe does seem to create condensation more quickly that larger pipe.
Thanks for an excellent video! What Fog Machine do you use for this? Keep up the great videos.
Thank you so much!
I use a variety machines from video to video. This one is a AFX Brick 900 watt Constant Fog Machine. I love this machine. I want to purchase more, but I can't find this one anywhere. Amazon shows them as "Currently Unavailable" for the past several years now.
@@intocoasters Thank you so much! Also what type of projector do you tend to use? Again, keep these fantastic videos up. I love seeing what you build.
@@yoelhill3774 I mostly use the inexpensive "holiday projectors" that can be purchased from hardware stores. They typically come with some Christmas and Halloween video clips pre loaded, but usually accept USB drives with your own custom content. I also have about a dozen Panasonic projectors from a school that upgraded all of their classrooms. They were going to toss the projectors. I got lucky there.
Thanks again for watching!
It's really cool! 😳 When i apply it on public area, i must fill the water often??
It depends on how big the water tank is. I ran it several hours and it did not need to be refilled.
How would you turn this into a laminar flow system?
So i have that atmos digital effect but how did you get it to push away?? did you use a video editing program?? Thanks!!
Thank you for wathcing! I did use video editing. It was a digital zoom and fade out.
Great observation - I was wondering if anyone would recognize the ring of fire from AtmosFX.
Where did you get the green circle from? I have a animation in mind for Halloween.
This was from AtmosFearFX. It's their fire themed pack. I made it expand and added the sound effect. I'd love to see what you come up with!
@intocoasters so I have a sigil that I'm using and I want to make the fire that shape. Is that possible?
@@ruperthenson4077 I don't believe so. The animation starts by drawing a circle and then burns out. All I did was zoom in on the clip to make it look like it was expanding outward.
cool! it
Thank you!
This is amazing! How would it look without something to chill the fog?
Thank you! It kinda looks like a cloud is forming around/from the pipe. Rather than a jet of steam shooting from a single nozzle.
Watch from the 2 minute mark. I run fog thru without the chilling part turned on.
czcams.com/video/o5M-YbGWf4g/video.html
@@intocoasters Thank you so much! What fog machine are you using so that it's continuous? I have to make a 10-15 minute visual to project onto something for a project for school and wanted to do it with a fog screen
@@MichelangeloCozzo I am using a 900 watt AFX Brick fog machine.I love this machine a lot but I can't find anymore. I wanted to buy several after trying this one.
@@intocoasters one last question, could I forget about the cooler if instead of spraying the fog down I sprayed it up instead?
Interesting question! Would the effect work the same if you used humidifiers instead of smoke machines? I’m planning to do this for a fun project!
I'd love to hear how it works out.
Hello, so glad I found your channel!! 😀. So you can’t use it outside because if a breeze hits it you lose your screen effect? You would basically have no “screen” to project on?
Thank you very much!
And you are correct. Only the fog is catching the projection.
I am working on an add-on to help fight the outdoor conditions while still being a purely fog screen. As in, no plexiglass or frosted glass to help.
I want to be able to walk through the image.
@@intocoasters yes, my son is a Minecraft fan. I told him some way we will make a walk through portal.
Thanks much for videos
@@mea164 that would be AMAZING! I hope you will do a video of you get it working. I'd love to see it!
@@intocoasters I always say I will video my builds, then I get an idea and start right away and then oops I didn't even take pictures!! I'll try and not be so impulsive and get some shots! But it will be a while , this Halloween wiped me out!!!
@@mea164 That is more often than not with my projects - I usually end up doing a video about something far after the process, so it's not as in depth as I want.
What type of fog solution did you use ? I’m using bog fog from froggy’s fog but it is not giving the effect that I want.
I think I'm using some form of "low lying" formula. Maybe called freezing fog or freeze'n fog or something like that.
Apparently, it's formulated to work well with dog chillers.
Does the laminar flow let you use it outdoors?
If there is any breeze, probably not. I still haven't built an acceptable method for creating laminar flow as of now. I have one I am working on when there is time and filming along the way.
@@intocoasters I keep thinking about "Fantasmic " at Disney World. And how the height of the projection was limited by the wind.
Killer beard.
Thanks man!!
Why chill the fog?
Excellent question. It is to make the curtain of fog continue to fall after it leave the pipe. Otherwise it will come out of the pipe and just stay airborne.
I demonstrate that in this video czcams.com/video/o5M-YbGWf4g/video.html&feature=shares
I start the non chilled demo at the 2 minute mark. Then I turn on the chiller and demonstrate the difference.
When are you going to make your first update on your ghost train
Hi Jack, sadly, this year I will not be doing the ride on ghost train. But thank you for asking! I'm sorry I won't have any videos about the ride this year.
What sized drill bit did you use?
Hi. Thanks for watching! I believe it was a 3/16" drill bit
@@intocoasters Tanks for responding so quickly. I subscribed because of this video.
@@haynerbassThat's very awesome! Thank you so much!!
Good luck with the build, please post your results - I'd love to see your spin on this!
You are so cute. I want to hug you
Well gosh, I've gone bright red! Thank you.
And may I commend you on impeccable taste 😁