[papercreters] Re: Back in production, finally

As far as avoiding putting the "killer" into your killer blades, remember EliSutton?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/photos/album/2081614419/pic/list

While Eli's system may not be 100% safe, it's probably safer than manually hefting a gigantic immersion blender. It certainly would save lumbar disks in your lower back. It also may stimulate some ideas for your own adaptation that is even better. Also, such a lift system may make it possible for one person to operate the mixer and fill it while the blades are spinning.

Whatever happened to Eli anyway? Hey Eli? You out there buddy? Miss your posts dude!


I'm convinced that elevating the mixer above your forms can minimize the manual labor to a great extent. Getting gravity to work for you instead of against you just has to be the right idea. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. With some reasonable thought it should make life a lot easier. Spending more time building and less time doing the worst of the physical manual grunt work is always a step in the right direction.



Another thought I have had would be to build a "water tower" above your elevated mixer. One of the slower activities can often be waiting for a hose to fill up a mixer. If you had another barrel that used a toilet float valve for the filler, and either another elephant trunk valve, or even a standard toilet tank flapper valve connected to a large diameter pipe leading to your mixer, you should be able allow the hose to fill the tower tank at a snails pace while you are mixing one batch, and then rapidly dump the water tower flush style into the mixer when ready to start the next batch. If the float valve were mounted on an adjustable stick or other support inside the tank barrel, you could make the water quantity adjustable and automatically measured precisely.

The side benefit of the "water tower" approach, is that that the tower tank could be a place to pump runoff water to. If you can create a drainage system around where your papercrete is draining, but that may or may not be practical depending upon each construction situation.


Looking good. Glad you are back in production.



Spaceman Wrote: -----------------------------------
Yes, I remember that. We had some scheme cooked up to avoid lifting anything wet and heavy. I still have that as one of my goals, mix and dump in place, let the hose move the water. I don't mind lifting small amounts of cement and dry paper. This one would do well on top of a scaffold capable of holding 1/2 ton or so safely. An elephant trunk valve on the side/bottom could then dump directly into forms. With paper prepared instead of in a compressed old bale the mix time could have been five minutes instead of the fifteen in the video. I've already drawn a better model based on this but much lighter. This one takes a little motivation to use. Today I didn't find the right junk in the pile.




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