I have seen people do it manually. They take a big puff on the cigar and blow into a piece of vacuum hose. It works okay if you have good enough side-lighting that you can see where the smoke is coming out.
--scott
He and I have been over that, remember? But at least he pointed out that the engine wasn't running. Neither you nor the video I watched a couple months ago about how to built one's own mentioned that.
First lose the glow plug, more smoke = more surface area for the oil to cook on. I built a paint can unit as a demo, generates a LOT of smoke, more than my Snap-On unit does.
Used nichrome wire wrapped around fiberglass tiki wicks. Wound a total of 4 coils. Two are in series and then those are in parallel with the other 2, gives you a LOT of surface area and uses under 12 amps of 12 volt current.
Next a common propane regulator. You do not want high PSI in the system, REAL easy to damage parts that cannot handle pressure. The propane regulator can take 90-200 psi and drop it to under 1/2 psi (11-12 inches of water column, OEM smoke machine standard is no higher than 13 in/wc)
Made an air bar that puts the air out in a nice even ring.
Made a low pressure check valve on the output, that way you can shut down the machine with it attached and it won't pull fuel vapor back in.
And a flow meter and adjustable flow so you can tell what is actually going on.
Basically a home built version of a red line unit.
Clare Snyder posted for all of us...
Yup
trader_4 posted for all of us...
D does not sound familiar but then again my memory is bad. I thought it started with a P and mutated.
snipped-for-privacy@whidbey.com posted for all of us...
This mutant original poster (not you) doesn't do any research so when you used that word it is out of his league.
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