Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: fermented paper / was Several hundred pounds of books

Thursday, September 23, 2010

[papercreters] Re: fermented paper / was Several hundred pounds of books

Actully the discussion got started when I announced I had several
hundred pounds of old books for somebody to take before 3 days were up,
well they are up and we got rid of three pickup truck loads as high as
we could stack them. Our library asked for them to sell in their book
sell, 3 for a dollar. I told her if she could get just 15 cents a piece
she could retire. ha ha

Bob

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, JUDITH WILLIAMS
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> I think this dicussion got started when someone said they left their
paper in water for a long time. Then someone else said don't you ever
have a mold problem.
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> I have had one experience with mold. I formed up a curved wall that
was actually quite thick. I used 1/4" plywood cut in half to form a 4
foot square. I wedged it in to curve it and poured it full of
papercrete. I can't dexcribe the shape of it but it was sort of
triangular and held a lot of slurry. I left that form on for about
almost a year I think. I had moved on to other things and just sort of
forgot about it. Anyway, when I took the plywood off there was an area
of black mold on one side of the wall. It was small, maybe 2 square
inches or so. After it was exposed to the sun for a while it went away.
The mold was on the plywood more than the papercrete so I think it was
the plywood that infected the papercrete.
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> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> From: Spaceman@...
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:47:18 -0600
> Subject: Re: [papercreters] Re: fermented paper / was Several hundred
pounds of books
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> This discussion makes it sound like mold is a big problem with pc,
whereas I have never had any mold problem in all the pc I have done,
which is a considerable amount. Even when I let a mix sit in the mixer
for a week all I got was a slight smell and a little bubble action from
bacteria/yeast/whatever.
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> Mike McCain helped make a facility for growing mushrooms in CO, and
they kept a hose running on the pc roof all the time to keep the
interior humidity high. There was no mention of mold.
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> Has anyone on the list actually had a mold problem or is it just
something that we talk about as a possibility?
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> spaceman
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> On 9/23/2010 4:19 AM, Nick Boersema wrote:
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> Ozone generators do a fine job on mold. There are lots of build
instructions to be googled.
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> Nick
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> From: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:papercreters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stick0boy
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:12 PM
> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [papercreters] Re: fermented paper / was Several hundred
pounds of books
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> anyone know if there has been any studies of RFs and mold? or could
stick a magnetron tube from a old micro in it and stand well back lol
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