Papercreters: [papercreters] Update on press

Friday, November 28, 2008

[papercreters] Update on press

Well we have had good progress this week the base is mounted the
motor and punps are mounted the hyd levers too.Are starting to mount
the cylinders today and make the gate,push ram.Iv made some test
bricks 1 pc and portland 50/50/compressed 50%,2 pc/portland silica
sand ,3 pc/drywall silica sand.Paper,portland,silica when compressed
makes a nice solid brick,we put it into our hyd stand press just to
see if it would work.At 500 psi it was 2 min and we took it out ,was
nice and solid,just paper and portland compressed to much.The drywall
portland and silica and paper hmmm bruce dint mush it up well and it
has lumps but more experiments instore for the weekend.We saw a
friend from an oil company and showed him a test brick ,i have
imbeded a pice of drill stem into a block of pc and silica mix and
compressed it 50% in 1 hr you could lift it buy the pipe is very
dense,he will be taking it to Calgary for testing by the company he
works for as soon as it cures.He called them and they want to see it
asap.We have had lots of people shooting at the well sites and
bursting pipes ,if we can encase them with this it will be huge.I
also contacted the center for reserch and innovation and they will
help document this stuff for free and help us get gov grants for
testing, recycling.Has been a awsome week.Well dont eat to much
turkey and just remember who your giving thanks to this weekend,God
bless chat to you soon,Clair.ps will post some pics tonight.