--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "peddler8111" <fpcharnock@...> wrote:
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> Has anyone tried making compressed blocks w/ papercrete or paper adobe?
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probably some have, but it removes the advantage of light weight and insulative.. pressing
takes the air & water out and you end up with a dense, but somewhat lighter brick... there
is no advantage to manually adding a workstep of pressing, and the cost of a CEB, , and
besides the papercrete would have to be very dry to compress, as any resident moisture
may squish out and you get a thin brick., unless you wanted a decorative thin brick. that
still needs to cure for a period, why bother?
adobe soil has just 4% or so, moisture before adding to a CEB to make a block, while wet
papercrete is - I imagine-- 20% or more ( ? anyone know the stats?) water once
drained.... so not as good for the 35,000 PSI you get in compression of a Cinva Ram
press.
A manual hand press, or a brick press may work, but still it will squeeze the block down
smaller I think.
I know a couple people may have a CEB ( the cinva ram) has anyone tested this formula?
Charmaine Taylor
www.dirtcheapbuilder.com www.papercrete.com
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