Thread: Fog Chiller?!

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Hi, I have a haunted corn maze in the fall. I currently have several foggers that I run in the entrance area and in the cemetary. (They are just the average type purchased from Menards or where ever.) What I'd like to do is build my own fog chiller that uses regular ice cubes - not dry ice. Does anyone know how to do this?

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The Monster list has lots of good ideas for some really elaborate chillers.

But my brother came up with this idea last-second back in 2005 and we're still using them:

I have a stryofoam cooler from the grocery store for each chiller. (you know the cheap white kind) He bought some drain hose from Home Depot and since it's flexible it's easy to coil up in the cooler. He made a hole on one end of the cooler (with his pocket knife) somewhere between 2 and 3 inches from the top. This is where a length of hose comes out and hooks up to the fogger. Then, on the other end of the cooler he made a hole at about the mid-point. This is where a length of hose comes out for the chilled fog to spill out. You might need to wrap some duck tape around the coiled up hose to keep it coiled inside the cooler so you can put the lid on. Then you fill the cooler with ice making sure it gets all around the hose. I sit my fogger on it's empty box and it lines right up with the height of the "intake" hose on the cooler. The drain hose is meant for washing machines (I think) and it fits right over the nozzles on my foggers. However, I do have one fogger that is much older and much more expensive and it's nozzle gets SUPER hot. To keep it from melting the drain hose, I just duck taped a cardboard TP roll on the end of the hose. If the nozzle on your fogger gets hot and your worried about the plastic melting you could even use the cardboard tube from paper towels just to keep the hose further away from the hot nozzle. Since the cooler is white and not very scary, I hide it in a bush and cover it with a black plastic trash bag. I live in San Diego and our Halloween nights aren't very cool, so fog chillers are a must. But still the cooler of ice lasts all night long. Sometimes there is even still ice in the cooler when I wake up in the morning.
This method is really inexpensive even if you have to replace the coolers each year. But I'm still using the same three coolers my brother bought me for Halloween 2005!
I hope that all made sense. So sorry I don't have any pictures. I've never thought about taking pics of the cheapo chillers. I just might do that this year.

Here's a good how-to (and cheap!):

Build Your Own "Vortex Fusion" Chiller