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We've just made a fog chiller for halloween and I am really impressed with how well it works. We're already deciding to do next year based on this. It's great for the low lying fog, but if you take the lid off the box that chills it, the fog pours creepily over the sides. Thinking coffin, vampire, and spooky fog coming from the coffin for the next one

I've been needing to make one of those for the longest time. how much did it cost you to make it? how did you do it?

It cost about £5.00 ($10.00?). Instead of using drain piping I got a metre length of black plastic piping like they use on pond pumps, small piece of chicken wire and a polystyrene box, all from a pet and garden centre. The box was free as they get their fish delivered in them - worth asking and they work just as good as the cooler boxes which can be quite expensive. The plastic piping is going to be better than drainpipe stuff too as you can bend it to where you want it. Forgot to say, takes about 15 minutes to make (but helpful to have 2 pairs of hands to wrap the chicken wire round the pipe)

I'd love to see some pictures. Always cool to see how they do things from across the "Big Pond".

I understand that cooling the fog helps it to grip the ground and keeps it from dissipating too quickly. We have a store bought machine but I've always wanted to make another and compare the two.

Right. Never done this before so let's see if it works. This is a picture of the first halloween display that we made. I had to make the gravestone myself out of cardboard (will be using it again this year) cos I couldn't buy anything big enough and we can now buy black cobweb stuff over here YAY!!

That tombstone is pretty good. And the sceleton... WHOA! But I would go with brown extention cords. The white ones just stand out too much. Kinda ruins the effect we all stive so hard to achieve.

The webbing looks awsome too. I have to find a lot of places to hang a LOT of webbing around here. I'd put it on the blaces of the ceiling fan, but even at low speeds, (normal around here,) I think it would just fly apart and land in drinks & food.

Maybe I can just run the A/C full bore that night...

Black webbing? Where didja find it? I'm looking for Orange & Purple. I got Green & white, but I'd like black too. The apartment has enough UV to illuminate the underworld. And I need a lot of GLOW around here. So far, just my jeans & T shirt glow.

The white isn't extension cords - it was just white cord so people wouldn't stand in the mud of the grave.

The balck webbing was from Asda (Walmart)

At Garden Ridge they have a fog machine with a chiller built in. I don't know if this is new or not, but I've never seen one. You just put ice into a little compartment. It's $50.

I saw that last year. I was hoping to go this year to michaels to see if they had one and then use one of those 40% off coupons from the newspaper to get it for 25$.

If I ever get a fog machine I am not using a fog chiller. I think it looks more realistic going everywhere. Not just the ground.

mine currently doesn't have one. If it is windy at all it floats away pretty easily. I'm hoping that it if it hangs closer to the ground it won't float away so much. I've tried rigging a couple fog chillers but nothing good so far. I'm just not willing to pay top dollar for one, or pay a whole lot to make one either. I would rather spend that money on zombies !!

finlee wrote: black plastic piping like they use on pond pumps

You mean ABS pipe? Hehe. It's used for sewer pipes too.

i like the coffin idea,,, ill make one this year and post it up

My husband made one out of a coleman cooler, some chicken wire, piping and a few other things. We fill it with dry ice every year. Works slick. Can't remember where we got the directions, somewhere on line where they all these instructions for do-it-yourself props.