[papercreters] Re: Ken's experiments: waterglass & AE

Can you tel me please what is AE ? thanks

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Charmaine Taylor <charmainertaylor@...> wrote:
>
> KEN CAINE SAID: Ingredients are water, paper, clay, lime, flour, borax.
> Have been playing
> with various quantities of asphalt emulsion in it over the last 14 months
> (in small mixes), and am now wondering if water glass might convey the same
> -- or better -- water resistance and perhaps a stickier wet mix and harder
> cured wall?
> +++++++++++++++++
>
> Ken---I think the cost of adding water glass inside the mix of sandy clay
> and paper is too expensive, and not the best application for large wall
> surfaces.
> if you were making pottery maybe that would be fine. AE is so sticky
> I don't think anything else can beat it.
>
> I only had a small jar of it to paint on the paper lime mix. I DO know
> that cobbers found that cob failed if covered with a coat of waterglass, as
> it didn't let moisture out of the clay.. clay naturally is
> hygroscopic..'water loving' so it will take in a lot of moisture and
> release it easily...unless moisture is trapped
>
> as an additive to coat clay particles AE is much cheaper if you need water
> resistance and can be added to clay and paper easily. The basecoat of my
> metal drum-- a smooth enameled steel surface was coated with a
> sawdust-clay-lime and AE mix that dried hard. to get it to grip the
> smooth metal I painted on a thickish coat of AE and embedded strips of
> 'dress netting' while the AE was still wet ... it provided a mesh toothed
> surface to grip any plaster I could have added, and worked very well I
> could have used apple sacking, onion bags cut up, or any wide open mesh
> material, plastic or fabric.
> --
> http://annesley.wordpress.com/burlap-crete-explained/
>
> Here is the specific web page he has on burlap/clay.paper.. also check out
> all his papercrete info...
> a lot of great design ideas, and work he as done!
>
> Also adding clay to coat the burlap and taking it to failure with running
> a hose on it proves you can't leave it unprotected. But why would you do
> that?
> *Charmaine *
>
> Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
> PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
> www.papercrete.com
>
> Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man
> to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good
> for him."
>




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