Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: using a standard washer

Saturday, October 11, 2008

[papercreters] Re: using a standard washer

Jano---There is a 15-20 gal rounded bottom tub and the agitator sticks up the center, a
motor drives the spindle, it has 2 or 3 molded wings that stick out, to push the clothes (
or sawdust) around, when turned on it spins to the right half way, then back the other
way, and continues this as long as turned on. the wringer is just for clothes to squeeze
water out, but I need to use the word to describe it generally.

The drain hose is too small to pass wet slurry thru, even if you removed the mesh drain
cover.

I would mix the sawdust and clay with water, and add the lime last, and often let it sit a
few days, and the lime did not harden up since it was still kept wet... it reacts with the
clay, and when poured into blocks it all drys hard in the sun.

I have 2 of them, one was used for clothes for a few years til it broke down. dang. It is
now a rainbarrel catcher, I have a long write up on some of the "kitchen tools" I use
posted here: http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com/myonareure.html

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> Hi Charmaine,
>
> I haven't seen a ringer washer in use for years and can't remember the
> action. How does it operate? Does it have an agitator? Would it serve to
> use something like a ringer to extract excess water? I imagined the drum
> would clog on a normal washer, but thought a liner or large nylon sack might
> be used to line the drum and catch the fibers.
>
> When using clay and sand do you use slacked lime to react with the clay? If
> not, is the clay mix susceptible to absorbing water and loosing its
> structural integrity? Is this much different than using sand and cement?
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