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Well I did some testing today and it worked very well! I tried a 10%, 20%, and 30% mixtures of glycol. The 30% was some pretty impressive fog very thick and a long hang time I think it is pretty comparable to froggys swamp juice. 20% was pretty good I wouldn't have any problem running it during halloween or at a party it had pretty good hang time. 10% was a very light fog and was gone pretty quick I wouldn't do anything on that level. Also just to clarify these percentages are the percent of the container I was filling so a gallon container (128 oz) would get 25.6 oz of glycerin and 102.4 oz of distilled water to create the 20% mixture.

So this all works well but now the important part is cost. At 20% I figure about $16 plus tax thats for 5 6oz bottles from walmart at $4 a piece and a gallon of distilled water for about a buck. At 30% you would need 6.5 bottles for a total of $20 plus tax. Looking online you can easilly get fog juice including froggys for that price of course shipping is a factor some places do have free shipping so maybe this isn't the greatest deal but at least you can just jump over to walmart anytime you want and get all the ingredients to make fog juice.

Also sorry no video my camera is pretty much dead.

Edit:
I was looking around at glycerin prices online and you can get a gallon for $35-$45 shipped that comes out to around $10-$12 a gallon for a 25% mixture. That seems like a pretty killer deal, I plan on picking some up for next halloween!

thanks for the info if I can't get it at work I will order online

hi all
call me thick if you want, but why does this recipe call for distilled water?

is it because tap water will not mess up your fogger?

+ can't you just make distilled water by boiling a kettle and allowing it to cool?

??

tap water has too many impurities, distilled water wont have that stuff in it to clog up your fogger.

Originally Posted by dazgill

hi all
call me thick if you want, but why does this recipe call for distilled water?

is it because tap water will not mess up your fogger?

+ can't you just make distilled water by boiling a kettle and allowing it to cool?

??

Ordinary tap water will leave limescale deposits on the heating element of your fog machine, which will build up over time. I'm not sure what the water Ph is up in Wakefield, but down here in the West Country it's very "hard"...Kettles and other appliances with heating elements tend not to last too long, even with in-line water softening cartridges plumbed into the mains water supply line.

Pre-boiling the water will remove some of the lime, but not all of it.
Distilled water is obtained when the steam from boiling water is cooled and allowed to re-condense into droplets.

Using distilled water will ensure the lengevity of your foggers heating element, and therefore your foggers efficiency.

Thanks Baron, thanks Scott

i was just wondering because i boil the water to "purify" it to use in the car radiator.

Anyway distilled water is pretty cheap anyway..

so it was a case of me just been thick!!!

p.s. the water in wakefield is quite soft - we get plenty of lather in our soaps!!!

thanks for the info slicered

amk

Originally Posted by slicerd

Well I did some testing today and it worked very well! I tried a 10%, 20%, and 30% mixtures of glycol. The 30% was some pretty impressive fog very thick and a long hang time I think it is pretty comparable to froggys swamp juice. 20% was pretty good I wouldn't have any problem running it during halloween or at a party it had pretty good hang time. 10% was a very light fog and was gone pretty quick I wouldn't do anything on that level. Also just to clarify these percentages are the percent of the container I was filling so a gallon container (128 oz) would get 25.6 oz of glycerin and 102.4 oz of distilled water to create the 20% mixture.

So this all works well but now the important part is cost. At 20% I figure about $16 plus tax thats for 5 6oz bottles from walmart at $4 a piece and a gallon of distilled water for about a buck. At 30% you would need 6.5 bottles for a total of $20 plus tax. Looking online you can easilly get fog juice including froggys for that price of course shipping is a factor some places do have free shipping so maybe this isn't the greatest deal but at least you can just jump over to walmart anytime you want and get all the ingredients to make fog juice.

Also sorry no video my camera is pretty much dead.

Edit:
I was looking around at glycerin prices online and you can get a gallon for $35-$45 shipped that comes out to around $10-$12 a gallon for a 25% mixture. That seems like a pretty killer deal, I plan on picking some up for next halloween!

A little update on my previous post. This site has pretty good prices on Propylene Glycol and Pure Glycerine and they ship free!

Also I was talking with somebody and they said a problem with Glycerin is stuff like mold and bacteria can actually feed on it so it is a bad a idea to use it inside. I actually don't use any fog juice inside but just in case anybody was thinking about doing it. I guess glycol is made different and does not cause this problem that's why real fog juice is made with it.

I purchased a bottle of 100% pure vegetable glycerine from the store and I was surprised to see that it was thick, like simple syrup. Is that correct?

I know you just mix a little of the glycerine with the distilled water, but it seemed odd to me that the glycerine would be that thick. Just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing before I mess up a fogger.