What are you hoping to do with the papercrete? Different mixes
produce different results. You'll find plenty of help with the math
once we know what mix recipe to calculate.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Melody" <Melody@...> wrote:
>
> As of yesterday, I've amassed each of the elements I need to make
my first experimental batch of papercrete:
>
> - Hilti SR 16 cool-as-sh*t heavy-duty drill
> - 24" Quick Mud Mixer
> - Several 5-gallon buckets
> - Paper shredder
> - Newspaper
> - Portland cement
> - 4 8' cedar 2x6s to make the form
> - Cedar screws & metal corner pieces
> - 2 pallets for the blocks to drain on
>
> I've found recipes for 200-gallon tow mixers, but extrapolating
that recipe down to a 5-gallon bucket is beyond my mathematical
skills. I seem to recall someone posting here in the last month or
so about his/her recipe for 5-gallon buckets. I'll do a search, but
if you know what I'm talking about, if you could point me to that
discussion, I'd be ever so grateful.
>
> OH -- and thanks to those of you who were so nice and responded to
my premature question about wall building. I've decided to make some
blocks first, then worry about wall footings.
>
> To my neighbor in St. Hedwig -- I'm north of Dripping Springs, out
by Hamilton Pool -- caliche country.
>
> Melody in TX
>
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