Good job! At least some of us are getting back to work after being cooped up for the winter. I'm still hoping I can get down there and see what you're doing some time. Right now I am w/o a vehicle. If anyone know of a good little cheap car or truck let me know.
I think dogs like to walk in cool wet things. I have large prints from my sister's lab and little prints from BB all in the same small patch of floor.
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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: Spaceman@starship-enterprises.net
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:35:13 -0700
Subject: [papercreters] Mo Progress
Three days ago I had mixed a batch of pulp but did not have time to use it, so did not add cement. The next day I had to be away, and yesterday I had plumbing issues to deal with, so today I finished that and got back to the pulp. I added water and towed it around a bit to soften it up since it had gotten pretty firm in three days sitting in the leaky mixer. Then I added a sack of cement and towed a bit more to mix that. A tow mixer with recycled paper is a lot cheaper than using cellulose insulation btw.
One tow mixer made six of the triangles, and with the ones I had done before that's twelve of the thirty I need in this size. The other size is larger so I will get maybe four per mixer load, and I need 75 of them. Another 25 mixer loads should finish this dome.
I only used bottles in one of these today, and things went a lot faster. With bottles in all of them I might have gotten another panel from the load.
My puppy left some paw prints for me. I have quite a few paw prints in papercrete around here, from more than one dog : )
I think dogs like to walk in cool wet things. I have large prints from my sister's lab and little prints from BB all in the same small patch of floor.
Follow progress on the new project at http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog
More papercrete info at http://squidoo.com/papercretebyjudith
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: Spaceman@starship-enterprises.net
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:35:13 -0700
Subject: [papercreters] Mo Progress
Three days ago I had mixed a batch of pulp but did not have time to use it, so did not add cement. The next day I had to be away, and yesterday I had plumbing issues to deal with, so today I finished that and got back to the pulp. I added water and towed it around a bit to soften it up since it had gotten pretty firm in three days sitting in the leaky mixer. Then I added a sack of cement and towed a bit more to mix that. A tow mixer with recycled paper is a lot cheaper than using cellulose insulation btw.
One tow mixer made six of the triangles, and with the ones I had done before that's twelve of the thirty I need in this size. The other size is larger so I will get maybe four per mixer load, and I need 75 of them. Another 25 mixer loads should finish this dome.
I only used bottles in one of these today, and things went a lot faster. With bottles in all of them I might have gotten another panel from the load.
My puppy left some paw prints for me. I have quite a few paw prints in papercrete around here, from more than one dog : )
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