DIY snow?

[Tim Downie]

I appreciate that there's more to snow cannons then just spraying water into cold air but has anyone tried their pressure washer as a snow machine in this cold weather? ;-)

Tim

[Jules]

I don't have a pressure washer and there's over a foot of the white stuff on the ground outside as it is - I don't need any more ;-)

Google found this one:

which needs an air compressor as well as a pressure washer.

cheers

Jules

[Bruce]

Quick! Patent it before someone else does. ;-)

[geoff]

Well ...

I have both

but its now too warm outside

And I'm nice and warm inside ...

[The Medway Handyman]

Never tried it, but I can tell you that a blast from around 4' away using a wide angle nozzle is incredibly cold. Great on those really hot & muggy summer days. A wide angle nozzle produces very small water droplets & accelerates them through the air at around 300mph.

I think commercial ice cube machines work on this principle, spraying fine jets onto a very cold surface.

[Tim Downie]

Having just tried it I can confirm that -3.5C *isn't* cold enough for the droplets to fall back as ice or snow.

Tim

[Andrew May]

They showed one of the snow making machines at an XScape on the Heston Blumenthal Christmas special. IIRC if had a fine spray of water that was mixed with a jet of cold air. That produced snow. Of course Heston being Heston was putting Blackcurrant cordial into the machine in an attempt to make blackcurrant flavoured snow.

Andrew

[Owain]

Got to be better than yellow snow.

Owain

[Bruce]

Lemon meringue? Mmmmm ...

[geoff]

In message , Bruce writes

Just watch out for the "99"s

[Tim W]

Owain wibbled on Saturday 02 January 2010 16:29

Switzerland)

[Tim Streater]

weather that we did.

[Tim W]

Tim Streater wibbled on Saturday 02 January 2010 22:50

Well, it was the middle of Summer :)

35C down at the bottom. Freezing with loads of snow up the top, which was bloody wonderful after 35C!

I want to go one more time, when the kids are a bit bigger and can appreciate it. Not a cheap country to visit, but one of the best in my book.

[Dave Liquorice]

That chap needs to see a Doctor, three streams?

[Tim W]

Dave Liquorice wibbled on Saturday 02 January 2010 23:16

Heh..

Maybe a deeply symbolic representation of the unity of peoples of 3 tongues? In which case there should be perhaps at least one little drip for the Romansch speakers too?

At least he's paying attention to the job in hand - expect nothing less from a Swiss person :)

[The Medway Handyman]

Rissoles?