Thread: Spider Webs, seeking advice/experience

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Ok, I am in need of some webbing advice.

First of all, I own a minions webber, and a smaller pneumatic gun that I built myself. I have experience with both of these.

HOWEVER, I am planning a LARGE area to be covered with webs, including a web doorway. (for more on that idea you can view over here)

Now, I'm confident that the webber will work just fine for the area, if be a little tedious, and use up a LOT of glue sticks.

My first question is, does anyone have any experience with the cobweb spinners? How much coverage does that liquid get, is it any quicker/easier than the cobweb guns?

The second question revolves around the door. Neither the gun nor the spinner will produce webs that are going to be able to handle being manipulated many times during the night. What I need is some kind of a fabric. And, while I've seen some artists with the stretchy bags of webbing, in my hands it looks like someone stuffed a seat cushion into a cannon.

I seem to remember seeing a link to such a thing here previously, but for the life of my, I can't recall where, and it seems like it was fairly pricey.

I was watching The Lost World (1960) over the weekend, and they had a spider cave, with clearly fabric webs, but I cannot find a clip of the scene to post. Any ideas here would be most welcome.

a web spinner can do a whole area very quick and the items to make your own web fluid are pretty cheap. A little fluid goes a long way. I dont think I would do the inside of my house but for a dedicated haunt it's great and affordable. Once the web fluid has dried it remains flexible so it moves with the slight breeze or movement of do-dads hanging off of props. Unless you buy the special, non-flammable web fluid you have to be careful where you shoot them if you plan to have open flame. As for the doorway, a web spinner needs a little help with coverage of large spans so you'll need to hang some fishing line for the webs to grab a hold of.

I have one for sale if your interested, let me know........You will need to have a drill that can reach rpm's of about 3000 tho.

here is a link to my thread where I am selling them, I sell mine for $30 and instructions on how to make your own fluid
Web spinner for sale

Yeah, that's why I need fabric for the doorway, I just don't know WHAT fabric yet.

I get paid on Thursday, if you can hold that till then, I'll happily take the spinner off ya.

Originally Posted by UnOrthodOx

Yeah, that's why I need fabric for the doorway, I just don't know WHAT fabric yet.

I get paid on Thursday, if you can hold that till then, I'll happily take the spinner off ya.

I dont think that will be a problem, I havent "advertised" it yet so I can hold it for you.

If I was to take a stab at a webbed door assuming it's not to cover an existing one but to be it's own door I would frame it with 2x4s. Then using small screw anchoring eyes around the inside build the web with wire. I would interconnect the "strands" as I zig zag inside the frame. You could then spray your web gun over it and do touch ups as needed throughout the run. The wire I use ALOT is the same galvanized shock fence wire spools you can get at Lowes. A spool is around 4-6 bucks if I recall.

Heck if it was me I would even replace the existing door with the web one temporarily removing and using the hinges. But that is just me.

Originally Posted by Scott N.

I dont think that will be a problem, I havent "advertised" it yet so I can hold it for you.

Thanks for the spinner. We're gonna have lots of fun with that sucker.

Man, I wish the web solution didn't damage furniture/fabrics/etc. I really prefer the web spinner over a glue stick based web shooter. Plus you don't need a compressor!

Oh well. I think the spinners are a thing of the past, since now you can get commercial shooters at Target and Walmart, so I don't think anyone will be developing a more home friendly solution for the spinners.

For the doorway, you can use cheesecloth. In this picture you can see it slightly pulled and shredded. But, if you keep pulling and shredding, it looks more and more like spider webs:

Originally Posted by UnOrthodOx

Thanks for the spinner. We're gonna have lots of fun with that sucker.

wow, that looks great!