Backyard Snow Gun Build
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2022
- We haven't gotten as much snow as usual this winter, and my backyard ski hill was starting to show it. So I decided to take matters into my own hands and make a snow gun and try my hand at snow making at home. I cover the basics here, but if you're interested in learning more, the
Snowguns.com forum is a great resource: snowguns.com
Nozzle size Calculator: www.snow-state.com/calc.html
If you like what I'm doing here and find some value in it, consider supporting my work on Patreon: / jeremymakesthings
I promise I'll still mostly make stuff out of rusty junk and not just buy shiny things with your money. 
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Very awesome. Loved the metric/SI/kelvin section :)
It's like seeing a lot of snow in the forecast so you finally get around to picking up a snow blower, then all the sudden you get the warmest winter on record and it never snows.
Very smart using water hose for your air supply nice design
Thanks for actually sharing details/specific numbers/calcs to be aware of
Excellent job!!!
I would definitely buy this!
Great content, completely new topic for me, and perfect commentary :)
Thank you!
Unique tool build. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
They sure are fun to make I made 7 with varying spacing 4 in and 6. 4002 bulk nozzles and 6508 nucleating nozzle. I also like to use gas powered ,power washers gives you more per gallon more snow.
good job jeremy
Cool Video. I live in southern California and it doesn't get cold enough to make snow so this project is a no go for me. Keep up the hard work.
Neat! Didnt even know this was a thing. But I live in the desert.
Loved the tutorial, I just wonder if this snowmaking device would create snow in a warehouse if the temperature is kept low enough to create snow in a controlled environment in Southern California.
Very cool. Did you calculate how much it cost you to run this for 10-12 hours based on power to the compressor [and pressure washer]? I'm guessing any other costs would be trivial by comparison. If you're rounding down the CFM rating of the compressor for the nozzle/system spec, was your compressor running almost nonstop, or what approximate duty cycle? I'm guessing your compressor is not within earshot of your bedroom :)
Looking at my electric usage on the days when I was making snow, compared to a “normal” day, a good estimate is it cost about $10. The compressor actually wasn’t running non-stop, I think that might have to do with icing and any other restrictions in the air hose- I probably wasn’t using the whole capacity of the compressor.
Where did you buy your metric change gears? If I saw correctly, you have a logan 210 correct? I have the same and would love to thread metric.
Mine is a Logan 200, same machine as the 210, but the floor model rather than the bench one. Gears are Boaton gears parts GB37 and GB47B. You’ll have to do some modifications (facing, bore, etc) to them, but that’s ok because you have a lathe. I got mine from Amazon, but it must have been some sort of close out because they were much cheaper than the current listing.
@@JeremyMakesThings much appreciated!
Could I use a sand blaster for nucleation to make non-skid snow?
I live near an elementary school and I want to use it on my sidewalks so I can impede rugrat traffic and not get sued in case a miserable Spawn of Hell slips onto his/her/its keester from hurling trash into my yard. >:)
I think I'd rather try using a fan instead of compressed air. I think it rather needs volume of air than the pressure, but I haven't actually built anything like that. just wondering.
Even on a fan gun, The pressure drop coming out of the nucleation nozzle is still needed to generate the super cold air to form the initial ice nuclei. Fan guns are good in marginal temperatures because the increased hang time gives more time for things to freeze before hitting the ground and they can spread the snow over a larger area, but in very cold or windy conditions, and increased hang time can lead to more loss to evaporation/sublimation or to just getting carried off in the wind. But that’s getting more into the “art” of making snow.