Thread: Fog machine tip extension?

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Long story short, my mom decided to use my fog machine for her float prop (it's a hair spray bottle) but the fog machine needs to sit at the base, and we need to run at least a 3 foot tube extension out of the tip of the machine to spray the fog out of the top of the bottle.

Do you think it would work if we just hooked a tube onto the front of the fogger and ran it up to the top? Or do you think the fog juice would cool too much and liquefy inside of the tube? We would only be spraying quick 2-3 second bursts every 30 seconds or so. It's a 700 watt machine also.

The quicker I can get more opinions on this the better, because we need to have the sprayer finished by tomorrow afternoon for it to go on the float. Also we are on a limited budget, and do not want to have to spend any more money on something that wont work (we literally have about $5 left for the float budget). Thanks.

700 watt should have enough force to push fog three feet i have seen it before. make sure th etube isnt too much biger then the fog machine nozzle. although i cant exactly grasp on what your trying to do it should work

Pretty much this:



It doesn't have to be an insane super huge cloud coming out of the bottle either, just enough to be plenty noticeable and recognized as the bottle spraying something out.

I ran my 400 watt machine through a 10 foot piece of PVC and had no problems with the fog and it's density at the other end.

Fog is pretty hot stuff. Make sure your tubing can take the heat, especially where you connect near the nozzle. I recommend leaving a small (1") gap between the nozzle and the tube so air can draw in. Three feet won't be a problem - my 700W machines blow fog for several feet.

I would be careful with the tubing. The fogger nozzle is very hot. I use foil ducts to transport the fog. The duct doesn't even touch the fogger as the force from the fogger pushes it out into the duct. But that is a much larger scale than what I'm assuming you want to do.

I'm not very familiar with auto parts, would there be some small diameter metal tubing available that's used in an engine?

Just to put my .02 in. Otaku's got it right. I'm sure I've read or heard somewhere in my research that your gunna want/need a gap for the fog to oxidize and actually look like fog.

You don't HAAAAVE to have the gap between the nozzle and the pipe, but you will get a much better effect and more fog out the other end if that gap is there. I'm sure there are some particle physics involved here as to why this is but it does help.

So how do you guys suggest I go about doing this instead?

We use plain old PVC pipe to route fog around where we want it. The fewer turns the better but I would not worry at all for only 3 feet. It will pump it out just fine.