Thread: Build Your Own "Vortex Fusion" Chiller

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i have a step by step that i will post

ummm thats not much of a post

Here is my step by step guide for making your own vortex style fog chiller.
Bare with me guys, this is my first post... and sorry i dont have exact measurements.

MATERIALS NEEDED:
(1) 5 gal bucket w/ lid
(1) 2' piece of 2" PVC pipe
(1) 2" PVC 90 degree elbow
(2) @' pieces of 1/2" PVC pipe
(4) 1/2" PVC 90 degree elbows
(1) 1/2" PVC cross
Chicken wire or any type of heavy wire stuff
Plumber's putty
Zip ties

STEP 1
Drill 2, 2 1/2" holes in your bucket or big enough to fit your pipe in. The first should be at the height of your fog machine and the second should be a little higher. like this:

STEP 2
Take your 1/2" piping and take the correct measurements to make it look like this. again sorry i dont have measurements. i eye balled it, but it should have the room for 2/3 to be ice on top and 1/3 open space below it.

STEP 3
Cut your 2" pipe with the correct measurements so it look like this. The 2" pipe should exit the hole that your fog machine will be at.

STEP 4
Use the plumber's putty or caulk to seal the openings around the pipes

STEP 5
Over your 1/2" pipe structure cut the right size of chicken wire to fit over it and in the bucket and zip tie it like this on the structure:

STEP 6
Fill with ice to rim of pipe.

STEP 7
Set your fog machine 3" away from your opening and turn it on. i use the chauvet 900. It should look like this:

This one i used a little less fog.

The longer i held down the button the thicker the fog got.it works great. and in these picture u didnt have the ice completely filled and it still worked great.
hope this helped. sorry it wasnt the best. goodluck!

HOW IT WORKS
Fog enters bottom tube and goes up through the tube through the ice and then exits the pipe and is forced down through the ice and out the second pipe:

now all you need to do it spray paint the outside of that black so it is not as easy to see

I have a question these two walkthroughs have different amounts of ice/expansions space. The first one says 1/3 ice 2/3 expansion second is the opposite 2/3 ice 1/3 expansion. But when I look at the pictures for AbsoluteReece it looks more like 1/3 ice 2/3 expansion maybe it was a mistype? Is there a consensus on amount of space/ice that should be used on one of these? I am probably going to use a 5 gallon bucket like AbsoluteReece shows and I don't want to have soo much ice that the fog cant get out.

how long does the ice last? that is my biggest thing... this is a 3 to 4 hour thing every night for 4 nights where i am at, and i would need to know about how much ice we would go thru, considering we would have a few chillers running.... maybe 5 or 6.... to cover the entire haunt hopefully...

Here are a few pics of my Bar Frig to Chiller build this year. Tests have worked really well.
Halloween Forum - Attain's Album: Halloween 09 - Picture
Halloween Forum - Attain's Album: Halloween 09 - Picture
Halloween Forum - Attain's Album: Halloween 09 - Picture

I built one of these following serialc0d3's design, except I substituted 11/2 inch pipe instead of 2 inch. I also substituted liquid nails for epoxy putty. I have the ice coming down to 1 1/2 inches from the bottom of the pail, and the outlet pipe comes to about 1/2 inch from the top of the pail. It takes about 3 1/2 pounds of ice to fill it to the opening of the outlet pipe at the top. On a 400w fogger I put out enough fog to fill my entire front yard (roughly 200 sq ft.)about 3 inches deep and thick enough that I couldn't see my feet through it. I am in the process of building another with a 4 gallon drywall joint compound pail. As soon as I have pics, I will post a how-to, so as not to thread jack.

I could definitely use this for my haunted house room. Thanks for the pictures!

Forgive me but I get how to build the thing. I'm just not sure how it works?

You use regular ice? Can this be used outside? How does the fog get from inside there outside? Do you have a blower? Where is the blower?

Sorry but this was a great tutorial I just have a few questions.

Can you use dry ice?