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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.

      --
      This is a tautology.
  2. 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.

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

    thats how i always remember it