RE: [papercreters] Re: making compessed blocks

Those blocks look great! I have done slip form with blocks embedded in the wall. If I ever do another building I know now what I would change about the method. I am wondering what would happen if you poured slurry into the slip form then applied pressure to push the water out. Too much trouble?



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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: criswells.ok@sbcglobal.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 20:11:26 +0000
Subject: [papercreters] Re: making compessed blocks

 

 

I was at first going to make compressed blocks, (see the picture below). The small block was my first attempt, the larger one was double the mixture. I used the recommended concrete mixture of 3 paper, (for the aggergate) 2 sand and 1 cement, that doubled was 6 paper, 4 sand and 2 cement. Both blocks set up very nicely and dried very quickly because most of the water had been pressed out. The reason I decided not to use this method is because of the weight of each block, I can't remember how much each weighed (I would have to look back through the files to find the exact weight. The slip form method is so much quicker and easier, I decided I would never mess with the press again unless I was going to try and sell blocks and that would be ok.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Richard" <richvollnogle@...> wrote:
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> Has any one tried making papercrete and using a briquete maker to have the papercrete be more consistent in form when in dries?
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