[papercreters] Re: slip form vs fast dry

>>could you just go ahead and pour lots of smaller blocks?<<

Yes, in fact that would be my preference as small blocks are a lot more flexible than wall panels, especially when you're building a prototype of something and the dimensions might have to be changed.

>>i'll dig up a pic and send it to you<<

I got them thank you!

I don't have a sheet of glass, but a do have some sheets of clear Suntuff.

Dan


--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Charmaine Taylor <charmainertaylor@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan, if the thicker panels you want won't be dry in time < 4 weeks
> then could you just go ahead and pour lots of smaller blocks?
>
> In Oregon at Lost Valley community they made pump house blocks on the
> ground, slightly elevated on screens or scrap wood I think, enough to get
> air to flow under, and then laid cement blocks with sheets of glass over to
> hurry the drying with solar help.
>
> with a stack of thick vertical panels you'd have the bottom being wet the
> longest as the water drains
>
> I made 4' long x 16" wide by 4" thick panels by pouring wet slurry onto
> wire bakery trays* lined in newspaper sheets, and dried in the sun. ( with
> glass over top, it rested on the edge of the plastic coated frame I cut
> them into the size blocks I wants while still a bit green, and they
> dried faster with the cut ends exposed too. they dried in less than 4
> weeks, and it is never very sunny here so we have foggy weather, limited
> sun, cool summers. it is the thickness that will slow down curing.
>
> sandwiching thinner panels together will give 12" thick
>
> these are plastic coated wire units meant to transport bread loaves in
> delivery trucks, they are open on the ends ( which I blocked with scrap
> wood pieces) having an open frame form helped dry them too, as the
> newspaper wicked water away, and dried in the sun where a plywood form
> would hold water longer
>
> i'll dig up a pic and send it to you
> --
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> PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
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