What you can do with a 5 gallon bucket, dryer hose, a fan, and 30 lbs. of dry ice!

Remember the cool fog from a few weeks ago that lasted about a minute? This is how we did it!

It all started with a 5 gallon plastic bucket from Lowes, 50 ft. of dryer vent, dryer vent coupler, and a pirated fan from Pastor Terrells office. RRRR we be here to take ye fan Cap'N Terrell! With all the parts collected it was time for some serious cutting. With the handy dandy Rotozip holes were cut in the side of the bucket and the lid. The galvanized coupler was installed in the bucket to attach the dryer hose and sealed with hot glue. The fan was then installed on the lid to force the fog generated by the dry ice out of the bucket.

Click play to see the Fog Master 2000

The fog is produced from the dry ice when it goes from a solid directly to a gas. This process is called sublimation. To speed the reaction and produce a large amount of gas the dry ice is placed into boiling hot water.

As you can see from the video our contraptions did work, but we have a few things to tweak. Our ratio of dry ice to water was a little off. The dry ice froze the water in the bucket and brought the reaction to and end a little too quickly.

It's not the end for this plastic fog producing duet. Be on the watch for their return to the stage soon.