Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Compressed Blocks

Monday, November 10, 2008

[papercreters] Re: Compressed Blocks

Hi A. Hume:

What is the investment in a hand operated press?
Interesting concept running over the forms, I wonder if a small
rolling asphalt packer would work as well.
I like the idea of a hydraulic ram to make it easier to get uniform
pressure and make it easier on the laborer but if people can be used
with out too much of a loss in efficiency I prefer the labor intensive
method. This lends itself to piece work where a man who works hard
gets what he is a worth and so does the lazy one.
I will be happy to donate to your missionary project if you send me
some info on what it entails, what you teach etc.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, <pepperh@...> wrote:
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> First - the engineering and final construction on these commercial
CEB units is assume! I am a tradeshow and display designer - kinda
artist architect! My background is professional theater which is a
very broad spectrum of crafts and materials coupled to draw it before
you build it!
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> First determine how many blocks you need. The small machines spit
out half blocks - 7X10X3h. If you need 5000 ceb blocks - average
house - a block builder will do it on site for $1 to $2 in a short
week you supply the dirt. The block machines we designed are for DIY
builders. We have adapted these to a log splitter and a neumatic
hydraulic jack - they work - but you feel kinda stupid when the manual
machine keeps up with your "labor free concept" ! In Peru a missonary
built adobe forms out of concrete and defised a press by driving a
very heavy truck over the forms! 100 blocks in 30 minutes! It
actually worked! He assumed he got 1000# of preasure wanted 1200#.
My little CEB press given to him by a church was the hood ornament for
the truck - but first he built 5000 blocks with the press so he
understood the process.
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> This is 3rd world tech. Google CEB press and you will find a lot of
information. All is valid but the promises are over the top. In
graduate school we built an adobe and ramed earth structure. Not large
just big enought so that we knew what it was about. We were under the
instruction of real Mexican adobe artisans. It was laughed at by most
- mud houses! I was invited to baby sit for a professors adobe home
one summer! I was sold! CEB was the clencher!
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> The plans are in a PDF file and a full size mockup. The kit explains
all. We are involved with a missionary project - I will need to talk
with them.
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> A Hume
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