Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: The uninformed

Sunday, November 16, 2008

[papercreters] Re: The uninformed

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, <pepperh@...> wrote:
>
> How much preasure does it take to make a papercrete block? Pounds
per square inch? How far can you compress papercrete - 2 to 1? If
you squeeze out all the liquid does this ruin the block. How long do
you hold in compression?
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> If I assume papercrete needs 25#s per square inch and the material
can be compressed at 2 to 1 ratio and held in compression for 1
minute - this is not a major piece of equipment. Has anyone
experimented with what Papercrete needs? CEB presses are over kill
for papercrete? I have a 30 ton press for CEB. - 2 to 1 material
ratio - is this overkill for papercrete?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: smt460
> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 6:48 AM
> Subject: [papercreters] The uninformed
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> Last friday i was working at our church and showed our test brick
to
> my head pastor,he was totaly amazed.He had never heard of doing
this
> with used paper and thought it was a great thing .He now wants a
> meeting with me next week.We have bought a large peice of rec
> property last year and have set up a portable camp till we find a
low
> cost remidy to build cabins with.Because there is so much bush
around
> papercrete makes sence,he wants some more test bricks to send to
his
> arciteces for testing,fire is a big insurance worry when there is
a
> youth camp involved.Every one i show this brick to is blowen away
and
> thinks its a great thing ,we have a congrigation of 1400+ x 1 ton
of
> waste paper per person a year,thats alot of recyled news print
and
> cardboard.I have been given permission to put a paper box on the
> church grounds for collection.Now while we are making bricks we
can
> also train people for mission trips aswell,we are over 200 youth
in
> the church so they are very willing to learn new things that will
> help others.Next week we have World Visions african village
display
> at our church and will show them this aswell for alt building
> media.As far as getting the word out social networking is the way
the
> net is the best for free advertising.We have been building our
press
> this week and now have it mounted on a trailer, total investment
so
> far $34 for rods,zip cut disks.The steel was old salvage,free.I
will
> post some pics today after church we are still gathering hydrolic
> parts but will take step by step pics if anyone wants to build
there
> own from our brainstorming.Have a great sunday,Clair.
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Well that is something we will have to experiment with but common
sence tell us that we just want to remove some of the water to keep
the r factor.We have a 50 ton loader from our pit if we can park it
on 4 bricks and they hold i think they will be ok lol.In the meen
time we will have to just have to try differnt pressures till we get
it right.Thats the fun part of doing a project like this gets the
brain going .Clair