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Build Your Own Snow Gun

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bury-your-annoying-neighbors dept.

ksyrium writes "A TV station in Boston has been kind enough to provide a list of what you need to build your own snow gun, as well as plenty of video, pictures and links to other sites devoted to at-home snowmaking!"

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  1. stalagtite? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stalagmite, stalactite.

    Stalagmites grow upwards, from the Ground. G for ground, stalagmite.

    Stalactites grow downwards, from the Ceiling. C for ceiling, stalactite.

    Oh, and M is for Mnemonic.

    This post brought to you by Stalag 17. (Hogaaaan!)

    1. Re:stalagtite? by drauh · · Score: 2, Informative

      Nono. Look at the M -- it looks like a stalagMite. And the T -- the vertical part looks like a stalacTite.

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      This is a tautology.
  2. What tempurature this works at by enigmatichmachine · · Score: 1, Informative

    For all you californaians out there( like myself) this only works in the 20's fahreneit, so don't think your going to make snow out here on the west coastt, this only works when its FREEZING.

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    -and occasionaly a giant moose.
  3. Re:Like I said last thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You must be thinking of a different Middle East if you think anyone is innocent.

  4. This would be pretty hard by Nobley · · Score: 2, Informative

    I worked as a snow maker for 3 months a couple years back and what I know is that using water treated with snow enducing bacteria and using air compressed on a set of pumps that used as much electicity as a small town, on snow guns with commercial heads, you really needed it to be below 30 degrees F. To do the equivilant home made style you would need a LOT as well as very high water pressure and very cold temperatures seeing as you would not have the snow enducing bacteria.

  5. mites go up..tites come down by phantomwolph · · Score: 2, Informative

    thats how i always remember it