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Here are the 5 most common snowguns with general layout, picture and plans.

Please note.  Nobody but yourself is responsible for any injury that may be incurred while building or using these devices.  The plans are free of charge and you use them at your own risk.  Any time you are messing with high pressure parts you have the risk of serious injury.  Unless you are willing to take complete responsibility for your actions, do not even attemps to build or use a snow gun.

Snowmaker 4 Internal Mix

Snowmaker 4 (Inexpensive design)

Mini Snowmaker 4

Internal Mix T Gun

BYB Clone External Mix

Combo Gun Internal Mix

Hago External Mix

12/14/2004

Here are some pictures of my dual snowgun design.  I will post specifics very soon.  When I get over this cold I will be building the stand for it. 

06/01/2004

  • Now that it is 90+ degree's outside, I have started to work on my dual "Hago" style snowgun.  Below you will find detailed pictures of the construction.  I am going to use 4001 nozzles for the middle nozzle on each so that my current pressure washer will be able to supply enough water and pressure to both guns.  The Hago nozzle does not require much water at all.  You can click on each small picture to view a larger sized picture.







03/23/2004

  • My PVC stand cracked in January and I pretty much quit making snow at that time.  I'm going to have a rethink on the stand design.  Maybe shorter and a stronger up angle on the gun to give the water more "hang time".
  • My current project for next winter is a "dual" snowgun.  I got tired of moving the snowgun around to get more coverage.  I am going to use the Hago type of gun for both.  I thought about internal mix type guns, but they require too much adjusting.  The Hago's are a pretty much "adjust one time and use" type of gun. 
  • Been some pretty interesting fan gun designs being discussed at snowguns.com forums.  You should check them out.

01/09/2004

  • I am developing a new snowgun.  It should be much easier to adjust and set up.  Snowmaking is a science and is learned only through trial and error.  Check out this page in about a week for a new snowgun plan which should be much simpler.  You can always build a T gun to start with, but to really make snow I recommend building a snowgun that uses the pressure washer.  Otherwise you can try to make snow all night and end up with only an inch or two in a small area.

01/01/2004

  • Here is a fairly simple to build, yet complex plans for a snowgun.  This was designed by Eddie Kline.  I modified this design for an external mix type of gun to use in warmer situations.  My "re-incarnation" of the snowgun is much more complex and I fear that posting the design will flood my mailbox with questions and problems.  I would recommend using a check valve where the connection to the snowgun occur.
     
  • IMPORTANT:  David Ceremuga and Eddie Kline are NOT responsible for any injuries or problems that may occur by experimenting with this snowgun.  You take on the risk and responsibility.  You are dealing with HIGH PRESSURE air and water, thus severe injury can occur.
     
  • Snowmaker 4 plans

12/22/2003

  • Close up pictures of the HAGO setup I designed.

12/20/2003

  • For those curious as of the snowgun design, here are some better pictures.

12/17/2003

  • SUCCESS.  With VERY marginal temps, I started making snow right away from my modified Snowmaker4 to a HAGO.  After only 5 minutes the ground is getting white.  Here is the temp when started.  This makes a WB temp of 27 or higher!

  • Here is a picture of the modified snowgun from the front.

  • Here is a picture taken only 5 minutes into this all night run.  This external setup is working just great in rather bad snowmaking conditions!

  • Here is a picture about 50 feet away of the plume :)

11/25/2003

Well I modified the Snowmaker4 Design to use an external NUC.  What this has done is allow me to finally get a good fine adjustment on the air/water mixture.  I can get an enormous amount of NUC material now.  Here are the pictures.

9/21/2003

Here is a picture of the finished Snow Gun:

I then test fired the unit by hooking up a 1400PSI 1.7GPM Karcher Pressure Washer to the Middle connector, and a 100PSI 6CFM air compressor to the bottom connector with the ball valve.  Here is how it looked:

Great, the bottom "NUC" mist was nice and dry.  Everything looked great!  Now I gave it a shot on a cold night.  Look at this baby pump out the snow!

I was able to pump out about 3" an hour.  Well now it is summer 2003 and I decided it was time to put this great snow gun into a stand that would look half way decent and provide excellent height and hang time for the water mist.  Here is how I mounted the Snow gun.  Tools used were, Hacksaw, Dremel with cutting wheel, drill and tie wraps.

I wanted the base of the stand to be sturdy and have a slight lean backwards.  The front feet are a little longer than the back, allowing for a few degree's angle of the mast.

Notice I can remove the mast.  I drilled a hole and used a trailer hitch pin to easily insert and remove the mast.  Here is the whole thing installed:

 

Well I just had to hook it up and see how well the mist floated in the air.  I need a lot of hang time with the mediocre temps we deal with in the winter.  I was very happy with the final results, here you go:

Well that is it as of 9/25/2003.  When we get some good snowmaking nights, I will give this puppy a try, and post some pictures.

Cost to build stand:   $35.00. 
Cost to build snow gun:  $50.00
Cost of Compressor:  $250.00
Cost of Pressure Washer:  $110.00
Cost of hoses:  $25.00

Total cost:  Who cares.  LOL.  Awesome isn't it.