Puttin the heat on me or what??Quote:
Originally Posted by Trace
no pun intended*;)
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Puttin the heat on me or what??Quote:
Originally Posted by Trace
no pun intended*;)
Yes, yes I am!
:banana: Awesome overload, wow mia for a little bit, come back & wow plenty of awesome mods happening, excellent choice of box to mod 8).
This is a brilliant mod BS Mods +rep :):up:
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Originally Posted by Waynio
Thank you so much for your kind words:D
After thinking about the red light in the chimney some more I definitely need it to be yellow. Fire looks more yellow when it flickers. So I swapped it out and I am much happier now.
Time for smoke!!
I stopped off at the local electronics store and picked up a few things.
Like a mad scientist I rolled my hands together in anticipation of this creation. It will be the best smoke making gadget ever devised!
I got my parts sorted. Busted out the Dremel, marked the holes, and let'er rip!
I made a little chimney to focus the smoke upward. The fan will blow air into the box forcing the smoke out.
I wired in 2 connectors to hang on to some wire I found inside my wifes hair dryer. (Don't tell her I took it}
I wrapped it around some fire proof rope, dropped some smoke oil on it, and poof!
I tested it with a spare power supply and used the wires for a fan hookup for my power source. The wire gets orange quick and makes it smoke A LOT. I might have to tone it down a little.
All put together and looking nice..
I installed it at the top so it could point out the chimney by making a bracket.
I tried the top and it fits perfect. I can't believe how smoothly this mod is going. 8)
I plugged it in to the red/black wires for less amperage to cut down on smoke but it just didn't make enough to shoot out like I wanted. So I decided to plug it back in to the yellow/black to get more juice.
I had a friend come over and he was checking it out so I showed him the whole mod and he thought it was awesome. Then I showed him my smoke machine and decided to do a "full burn" on this baby and see how much smoke I could get.
It was really really smoking good and we were like wow this is awesome.
And then we were noticing you could just see the glow from inside due to how hot the wire gets.
And then...we realized it was ......
ON FIRE!!!!!
I was able to act quick and get it back off without doing any damage to anything else. The Modding Gods were looking over me for sure.
It appears that the "Fire Proof" rope....isn't!
I am so pissed. :evil:
I will be doing "Smoke Box part 2" tomorrow. After I simmer down a little. No pun intended :wink:
I realized that when I did my full burn that I had not turned the little fan on, which most likely let everything get a little too hot. Also, a "full burn" maybe isn't the best idea unless I want a "Complete Full Burn" as in total meltdown of the entire mod.
I wanted realism, but damn, that was too real.
Bad luck on the burning..smoke.. :whistler: The yellow looks much better though, just the right color.
For the smoke machine, I actually have a 2"x0.2" length of fabric tube that was insulating the heating element from an old soldering iron. You're welcome to it if you need a more robust flexible insulator.
lol, that looks like my first soldering job on a cd drive. boy, it was fun to watch that thing catch fire
hope you have better luck in round 2!
Oh man thanks for the offer.Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
I need this done for a LAN this Friday so I'll go pick up some better rope. Then I'll test it with a lighter in the parking lot and return it if it burns. Imagine the look I'll get if it fails and walk back in...
I'm confident this will be done by Friday.:rolleyes:
Good luck Mr. BS Mods
FWIW fire proof rope is like any other fabric else thats "fire proof" where it's actually "fire retardant" for a certain time or temperature. That rope they use in stoves is mainly as a heat gasket, where rubber cannot be used, but it won't see a direct flame for more than a few seconds at most. If you hold a lighter to it (or a glowing orange coil) it will most certainly ignite sooner or later :D
Methinks you need a metal project box instead, and don't forget to turn the fan on!
