What are you planning on building with the Legos once you get your
block design perfected?
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "mojavejeff" <mojavejeff@...>
wrote:
>
> As soon as the temperature here in southern Nevada gets back down
> into the mid 90s I'll return to the garage to master P/C stucco to
> cover my air conditioner sound barrier wall. Also, while I've been
> hiding inside for the past 2+ months, I've been working on a block
> form design that makes "tongue and groove" blocks - 12" high by 18"
> long by 12" thick (tongue on top, groove on bottom of block - lego-
> like). I've already made a smaller version form with some scrap
wood
> that worked but the finished block dimensions weren't as exact as I
> want them because the wood sides of the form were only 3/8" thick
> particle board and bowed slightly creating a squewed block. I will
> include photos when I get it right. In the valley I live in we
have
> a soil type locally known as "poof-dirt." It's the silt that has
> washed down from the moutains and is what dry lake beds are made
of.
> It is made up of very fine particles and very sticky when wet. I'm
> not sure of the clay content but I plan to include it in my next
> block mix.
>
> Jeff.
>
>
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