RE: [papercreters] Garbage disposal

Thanks for the input. I had your same concerns. What I would do would be to set up the garbage disposal (maybe right over the mixer if it is not too heavy) and run the hose at a slow speed while feeding soaked paper through it.

I'm not sure I will try it but if I do I'll certainly share the results.

My quest for finely pulped paper comes from my desire to use it for finish plaster and also for the final application of papercrete to the roof. What I have been making seems much too coarse to work in these applications.

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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: tomhay@verizon.net
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:43:49 -0500
Subject: Re: [papercreters] Garbage disposal

 

I haven't tried it but, given other experience with grabage disposals, I see two issues.

 

1. You generally need water running through with the materials you are trying to grind to keep the gargabe disposal from overheating. You could have a pump in your receptacle to recycle water back through, but you would have a challenge to filter the pulp out before the water got in the pump unless the pump was designed to handle solids and liquids.

2.  The process would probably require slow feeding of soaked cardboard and newspaper with the acceptable rate dependent on the horsepower of the disposal.

 

Good luck.  Let us know if you try it.

Tom

Tom Hay, Ph.D.
A2B Research and Development, LLC
703/672-6033 (internet phone)
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Nov 1, 2010 11:32:52 AM, papercreters@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 

Has anyone ever tried using a garbage disposal to mulch paper? My plan to get a shredder has not worked out. I can't find one for home use (affordable) that does cardboard and newpapers.

Someone is giving me a garbage disposal already attached to a large cast iron sink so I thought I would try that but may not bother hauling it out to my place of it won't work.

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