Re: [papercreters] Using lg cement mixer for Alt mixing

The trick is using sand with the portland which turns it into a grinding paste. Completely grinds all the paper to pulp. Clyde T. Curry

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On Oct 19, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Charmaine Taylor <charmainertaylor@gmail.com> wrote:

 

 Spin for around 30 mins and you've got some super duper papercrete mortar or plaster.


-- Alaine, I am impressed you found a good way to mix 'crete with a standard cement mixer.  at the end you say "mortar or plaster", is this becayse it is too thick to pour into forms?

could adding more water the last 5 min of mixing make it more  "wet oatmeal"  like? for  pouring into sacks, forms or a  gang press?

since most  papercrete is very watery  and is drained over a screen your method may spare that last step to speed the process.

even if just as a thicker plaster mix it sounds  ideal for a cheap/ fast method, would a small home cement  mixer do as well?


and you are very close: Pozzolan  and pozzolanic and MetaKaolin ie: China clay- very finest clay particles


Charmaine

Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
 
 Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

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