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Unread 13-12-2005, 07:09
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Re: Making a smoke machine forcefully blast out the smoke.

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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
Why don't you just feed the compressor from the fog machine, or a combination of the fog machine and atmosphere? I don't know what fog machines use to make fog, so please forgive me if this is a stupid idea because it'll destroy the compressor, or such.
As the above discussions mentioned, the oil type suspends particles in the air. (It is pretty cool when you see the first time but after the fiftieth it kind of wears on you.) The oil particles would be filtered out by the compressor intake filter. The dry ice type dissipates as it reaches temperature (the melting point of the frozen moisture particles) As the fog/air passes into the compresoor it's temperature skyrockets leaving you with hot but moist air.
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