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Before we get down to the testing, I thought it might be a good idea to show
you exactly where this little puppy is going to be set up. I have another bookase to the LEFT of my desk. It's standing in
the corner of the room.
We have planned that the fog machine is going to rest on another board, that
will be bolted, or attatched with screws, to the highest existing shelf WITHIN the bookcase. But after seeing the fogger,
it might just go to the top of the bookase itself.
(Where Taz is standing at the top of the bookcase,)
and angled to face the center of the room.
This is actually going to be the best place to put the fog machine. It'll be
partcially obscured from view as guests walk into the apartment, as the desk has a hutch that is really deep. (18") It has
more space around it, and the thing does get pretty hot, so it won't be as confined as it would be in the bookcase. I also
have a super small fan that can feed a stream of air onto the unit to help keep it cool.
This is a GALAXY
TYPE 4 120v. 60HZ 0.16AMPS
UL Listed 154C MODEL E20739
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This skull-Face turned out to be a LOT LARGER than we had imagined. I was under the
impression that it would be about half this size. Rick was astonished as well. When you end up with something of this size,
you have to kick yourself for NOT BUYING TWO!
Just to give you an idea of size of the Skull-Face, I have placed my paw on the skull.
Now, I'm six foot tall exactly. THIS is one, BIG, FREAKIN' SKULL!
We measured both of our hat sizes, and this is much larger.
Here's the fogger in action. The fog actually dissepated rather quickly indoors. We ran it
for about five seconds, and waited a minute. Then ran it again to see how the room conditions would be for the party. With
the exception of it being daylight, it was about what I had expected. Rick thought that the fog dissepated too fast.
Rick is manning the fogger. I had walked right in front of this thing, twice and he hit the
discharge button. After testing, we siphoned out the remaining fog juice back into the original container with an aquarium
air hose. It was slow, but it worked. Better than tipping the unit over.
To flush out the system, we filled the resevoir half-way with tap water. We ran the fogger
until just steam came out, in a series of small bursts. The steam was hot and Rick managed to sting me with the steam as I
was stupid enough to walk past it again. It didn't hurt that much. Like being scratched by a fingernail.
I said "You burned me!" He appologized, but he was laughing all the time he was saying "I'm
sorry!"
I was concerned that the water might turn to steam too fast and damage the unit. Rick was
concerned that the tap water would clog the unit. Fog juice or tap water. In Rick's eyes, the fogger's good as clogged. And
this is the first test run. Whatta gimp!
I told Rick that the fogger might stand a bigger risk of water resedue clogging it, "IF"
it was ALWAYS running water through it. Like a steam iron. But we're just running a small amount, just to flush the pump,
nozzle & tubing. But he did mention using distilled water.
"I have some in my apartment." He said...
"Well, why didn't you go get it?" Said I...
"I'm too lazy." Say he...
"Then shut the #UCK Up!" I said.
See? We get along great.
The daytime fogging of the apartment. I noticed that the fog seemed to rise more
than fall. But it also dissepated in a few minutes time. We thought we would try the timer unit. But even when it was set
to the shortest "burst" duration, (5 seconds,) it still ran for more than 20 sec.
Thank goodness I decided to test it out in the open hallway. If a 20-second burst
was confined to the apartment, I doubt we'd be able to find the door.
}8-{O}
We are planning to build a simple dummy to hang beneath the head
of the fogger.
Expect updates to this page in the near future.
The shelf modification was added today.
The shelf was mounted to the top of the bookcase. It's set at an angle, so that
the released fog will head to the center of the room. It is also aimed right at the ceiling fan, so it'll shoot straight out,
then be blown to the floor. and really mix with the air.
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The shelf turned out to be just wide enough, that the rubber feet of the fogger
are resting perfectly on the shelf. I swear theres not a milimeter more shelf. I might just rum a few zip tied around the
fogger, so theres a reduced chance that it might slip somehow.
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The gray cloak has an opening at the back of the hood. This allows the remaining
fog machine to remain exposed and open to the air. I'm totally aware about covering the air vents of the unit. I plan to use
a very small desk fan to try and blow air into the housing.
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Here's the ceiling fan. The fog is going to pass right under it. The fan will
mix up the fog with the air and I hope a creepy haze will be created.
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Here you can see that the fog machine is sticking out of the back of the hood.
You don't really see this as much, as you would have to be right next to the window to see it from this angle. The window
is also flooding this image with sunlight, (which is why it looks hazy.)
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I wanted to give old Foghead something of a ribcage, that can be seen under the
robe. All I had that would come close is a few milk jugs, a hanger some tape and the trusted razor knife. It turns out, that
I didn't even use the tape, but a couple of staples to attatch the plastic bits together...
BTW :This is probably the ONLY site
on the internet, that talks about jugs,
and it's NOT considered porn.
}8-{D}
The jugs are too large to have under the cloak. So I had to cut them down, on
the virtical. Since I also wanted them to tilt towards each other, I had to figure out where to leave a bit of extra plastic.
This is so I can loop the plastic tab around the coat hanger, and staple the tab, to the back of the jug plastic.
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The cut through the jug, also had to make the bottom of the shape a bit
wider at the bottom. I tried to visualize the ribcage, how it curved and narrowed
at the top. Which was tough, but then, I had to plot out a mirrored cut on a second jug, to create the other half.
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The plastic of the jug is different thicknesses in cirtain areas. If you work
the razor knife throu some thick area, it'll turn thin down the virtical walls of the jug. Near the curves and across the
top and bottom of the jug, is where it's thickest.
So be weary when you start to get to the virtical walls. Suddenly, the knife
will hit thin plastic, and will fly through the plastic. Make sure your hands are away from the knife's direction of travel.
You can cut yourself pretty bad if it should happen to slip.
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This is the tab that will loop around the coathanger.
I wish I could of made it a bit longer.
But since the plastic was very flexable,
I was able to bend it out of the way,
so I can fit the stapler up to the folded tab,
and slam three or four staples through.
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Before I looped it around the clotheshanger, I put a series of folds into the
tab, right where it meets up with the rest of the form. This kept it from "springing back" to it's original shape and making
it hard to staple. It also made it easy for the staple to hold the tab into place, because it didn't want to keep returning
to it's natural form.
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The tabs are looped around and stapled to the back of the jug plastic. I also
stapled the jugs together where they meet in the center. This kept them from swinging independantly and becomming mis-aligned.
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The hook was snapped off as it would cause the jugs to hang too low.
(I remind you, this is not a porn site.)
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Here is the Skull Fogger all fixed up and ready to go.
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