Smoke machine meltdown autopsy.

Ofcourse, this is stats for the real deal.. Chinese could be using anything really... :)

I believe that the white insulation there is not ultra pure fibre glass, but Aluminium Silicate. The same stuff is used in fireproofing of houses, to fill smaller gaps between wall and pipes/cables going through it. It's quite amazing stuff, you can put a piece of blanket of that material (22mm thick) on your bare hand, bend it to get an indentation and pour molten lead into it. Lead will keep the heat well because of the insulation and you will not feel anything on the other side. You can in fact do the same using a blowtorch as it only goes up to 1200C while this stuff handles up to 1400C.

If it's a generic Chinese one with the LED smoke illumination you may find it's quite modular inside.

Big Clive

I have a larger vertical spray one of these to fix.. Well timed vid, thank you!

mikenco

Wishing CLive and my fellow patrons all the very best !

mark barratt

Absolutely correct.

Charles Bruckner

I took another look at the melted wires on the cover. There are melted cable-tie marks there too. The colors of the wires matches the colors in the remote you opened. I suspect someone cable-tied a section of the remote cable to the hot part of the cover. The cable melted during normal operation shorting the wires to bypass the thermal cutout. Then things really melted. Very cool. Or very not cool, depending on how you look at it. Thanks for the video!

Nani Isobel

Clive I wanted to extend my warmest regards to you and yours this holiday season. You give us gifts all year round in the form of your patreon and youtube videos, so I hope the new year sees you rewarded threefold, or even a score!

Michael Thompson

Wonderful video! I also love smoke machines. So much so that I am not allowed near them when playing in a bar as i will smoke out the whole room and create a "hazard". Pffftt....babies!

Michael Thompson

"hmmm pins 2 and 3... oh Jesus"

Charleso

I picture your backlog of items being somewhat akin to Amazon's warehouse. 🙂

Nothing wrong with that. Connectors are rated on amps.

evilution

Thanks for taking my smoke machines apart! I can’t believe you managed to fix the pump and got it working... after I butchered it trying to get the guts out of the crimped casing I thought it had completely had it. Really good video, fun to watch.

"3-pin XLR with 240 volts through it." Aaaaaaa!

George Dorn

Why not send a chunk of the aluminum blob to Cody? He could stick it under his xray scanner and tell you what the heater casing was made of. From there you could find out what sort of temperature it had to reach before it melted. Scary video btw - just the thought of what could have happened.

John Carr

I suspect that the springy copper alloy elbow in the thermal switch got annealed when the unit overheated. Of course it would have been held down (open) by the bi-metallic disc during that process then just stayed open as the unit cooled down.

Dave Davies

I want to put one on my vehicle and when I pull up to one of those people that vap and it looks like there car is on fire because of the cloud that is coming out of their car I can flip it on and put them to shame with a 2000 cubic foot cloud.

Lostngone

Really, really interesting. You are 'dead' right though, what seems a bargain quite often isn't.... Merry Christmas Clive . Hope Santa is kind to you, you must be on his nice list... lol cheers mate.

Richard Boyce

But did you even watch the video BEFORE you posted?

Lostngone