[SML] Sal Ammoniac smoke

Illuminati500 illuminati500 at gmail.com
Tue May 8 21:13:28 UTC 2018


I have actually done that - the lightning thing.I was fourteen. I should be dead now by rights 


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> Ahh, the fun behind the entertainment industry!  Next thing you know I’ll be making a lightning effect by holding a rasp and a screwdriver, connected to an arc-light transformer, while wearing rubber lineman’s gloves!  
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> Surprised to still be alive.
> Steve Boone 
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>> On May 3, 2018, at 20:30, jdunfee12--- via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net<mailto:stagecraft at theatrical.net>> wrote:
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>> Since childhood, I have read about using Sal Ammoniac in a Heating Cone to make theatrical smoke.  However, I have never seen this done, nor even seen what such a heating cone looks like.  A search for a "heating cone" shows up some cone-shaped systems which you use to heat a bearing (I am guessing to expand it a bit, to put onto a shaft).  Is that the sort of "heating cone" used for smoke?
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>> A search on Youtube also turned up nothing except how to clean your soldering iron.   I also searched "ammonium chloride", since that seems to be the same stuff. But, again without success.
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>> Anyone know of a site that shows a picture, or ideally a video of such a contraption in operation?
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>> -Joe
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