Need low budget hazer...like REALLY cheap

[BJBProductions]

Ok, I'm a lighting guy, with a lack of money..I am in need of a simple hazer... I have heard that you can buy a humidifier and put haze fluid in that. Will this work? I'm talking about filling up a bedroom size room--so nothing big.

Any other ideas? I would like to know if the humidifier thing will work... Because I haven't been able to find a good answer.

Thanks guys!!!

[icewolf08]

I have never heard of that before, but it seems like a good way to destroy a humidifier. I assume that if it did work you would need a humidifier that heated the liquid to vaporize it (as opposed to ultrasonic or fan and wick based units). Somehow I doubt that a humidifier gets hot enough to vaporize haze fluid.

If you are just doing a short run in a small space, you could get in touch with Look Solutions as they send out free demo units. You would have to pay for shipping at least one direction, but they will send it with a full tank and let you keep it for a week or two.

[BJBProductions]

Originally Posted by icewolf08

I have never heard of that before, but it seems like a good way to destroy a humidifier. I assume that if it did work you would need a humidifier that heated the liquid to vaporize it (as opposed to ultrasonic or fan and wick based units). Somehow I doubt that a humidifier gets hot enough to vaporize haze fluid.

If you are just doing a short run in a small space, you could get in touch with Look Solutions as they send out free demo units. You would have to pay for shipping at least one direction, but they will send it with a full tank and let you keep it for a week or two.

Hmm. Thanks for the the website. yeah, I'm going to need this more than once over more than a week. But as I said before, this is just for a small area and mostly just for my own learning.. Yeah, I'm sure i would kill the humidifier, but I really want to know if it will work..

[Wolf]

While I havent tried this YET (I will be in about a week) I have heard that putting glycerin in a humidifier will create a haze and 98% of the time wont set of a fire alarm.

[BJBProductions]

Dude, please tell me ASAP if it worked...Or I might just try it myself...

Thanks for the tip..

[Wolf]

I'll let you know but I wont be doing it for like i said about a week or so. So if you need to know soon you may just want to try it your self, if you do, if you could let me know how it goes

[BJBProductions]

I was looking around this website a bit more and found an old post...One guy said that use 1 part glycerin and 9 parts water...He said that should work..I might try it if i can get my hands on a used humidifier soon.

[torfigeir]

Hi guys. A tip here from Iceland
I always buy lubricant oil that's intended to lubricate kitchen appliances etc in bakeries or such. It's white lubricant oil which I buy at Esso or some gas station. It's oder free and very safe. Then i take my air compressor and put the oil into a bucket, then put the tube with the air streaming out of it into the bucket. Then I put a lit on the bucket with a small hole for the air tube and a hole with a dryer-pipe (you know what i mean, the flexible guys you use for your dryer) and then the haze just streams out of there... this is done in both the National Theatre of Iceland and in the Reykjavik City Theatre. No haze machines, just big buckets and an air compressor

[icewolf08]

Originally Posted by torfigeir

Hi guys. A tip here from Iceland
I always buy lubricant oil that's intended to lubricate kitchen appliances etc in bakeries or such. It's white lubricant oil which I buy at Esso or some gas station. It's oder free and very safe. Then i take my air compressor and put the oil into a bucket, then put the tube with the air streaming out of it into the bucket. Then I put a lit on the bucket with a small hole for the air tube and a hole with a dryer-pipe (you know what i mean, the flexible guys you use for your dryer) and then the haze just streams out of there... this is done in both the National Theatre of Iceland and in the Reykjavik City Theatre. No haze machines, just big buckets and an air compressor

Could be just me, but this sounds like a really bad idea. It sounds like a real health hazard. It may work well, but i can't imagine that that long term exposure is good.

[gafftaper]

Yeah that sounds pretty crazy to me. Nothing like breathing oil on a regular basis to ruin your lungs. I doubt Equity would approve. I guess I would try the 9-1 water/glycerin and see what happens for a short term basis. But none of these should be done for any sort of extended period. I don't want homemade crap in my lungs. I want something made by someone I can sue if things go wrong. That means I don't want anything made by "China Inc" either. Its an area that it just doesn't pay to cut corners.