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> > Mikey:
> > What was your mix??????? It appears to have a nice working
> > texture, but looking at it, it appears not to be
> > highly "adhesive". I'd be very interested to know what your mix
> > consisted of. Also not having worked with PC (yet), it appears
> > that the bread dough consistency would indicate that there had
> > quite a bit of water drained off prior to application.
>
> Just looking at the photos, I am guessing 4 or 5 paper slurry to 1
> cement to 1 aggregate (which looks like local sand mix). That
> consistency is about what I get from the pressure washer, without
> draining, FYI.
>
> > Presumably a tow mixer cannot achieve this directly and
> > there must an intermediate draining stage.......
>
> Out of my area on that one. heh. Can't tell if his tub has a drain
> or screen system in it from the pictures.
>
> Mike: Nice pics, by the way. Next time I mix some I will try to get
> the wife out to either video or take some pics. Are the high up sun
> dome looking things on the wall glass mixing bowls? If so, ingenious
> usage.
>
> - Ernie
>
I have the mix written down (somewhere) - I will hunt it down. As
mentioned I mixed water adn paper only in the tow mixer. My mixer has
a big Mike McCain plug - I dumped the slurry in a cement mixing box.
From there I shoveled out to a five gallon bucket where I think I
filled up about 60% with the slurry. Then I added about 3 shovels of
sand and finally about one or two shovels full of finish stucco to
the very top and then mixed this with a paint paddle on a dewalt drill
motor.
The slurry in the cement pan lasts for several days. I did no
additional drying, but I did shovel out the drier material and the
water separates from the slurry some as it rests in the pan - I tipped
and skimmed it off now and again. I made a papercrete step with this
mix that has held up in the elements for 4 years now. After the
initial cracking from drying - it hasn't cracked since. It seems to
have adhered quite well. It has been on the blows covered with black
paper and then chicken wire without a problem fr going on five years.
The glass light train at the top of the south facing long wall on the
16 X 12 garden cottage is made up of gallon wine jugs that I cut the
tops off with a 10" tile saw - a bit of a dicey project (you need to
cover up well) - but once you are set up I cut those in no time ;-)-
the green glass is nice.
John
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