Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: pressed papercrete blocks

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

[papercreters] Re: pressed papercrete blocks

Hi Clair here, we were also thinking about a continues block press,you need a about a 12 foot rhs steel tube with a hyd ram from a track hoe (excavator)you need about a 4 ft stroke.I came across a ceb press on ytube they were using it for hiway barriers but i think the same princable would work for pc if you pre drained it.And you cant auger drained pc it just sits there so you need a conveyor to deliver it.Well i looked for the vid for a bit but could not find it,its in block making equipment on ytube some where.Hope this helps.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Ron Richter <ronerichter@...> wrote:
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> Hi Joel,
> Not many of us have attempted pressing blocks.Â Bob has done some, Bruce and Clair have made one, and I am in the process of making an auger fed squeeze box to press a continuous brick that can be cut to length.Â You can buy an automated one for $25,000 from the guru, but all of us think we can do something similar for less.Â You'll have to let us know your results.
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> I'd like to make a semi-automatic papercrete block press and need to ask those who have done it what amount of compression they usually see.
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> If I fill the mold to say 8 inches how far should I compress it? To half? One fourth?
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> I'm trying to size the stoke of the piston. Thanks for your advice.
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