Cob: Baked Houses

Thu Jan 20 07:20:15 PST 2000

The 600 degree solar oven, besides being slow, expensive and labor intensive,
will only dry the bricks.  It cannnot "fire" them as in a kiln.  Kilns bring the
clay to change state and fuse together.  I must admit though, I am quite
impressed that a "backyard" solar oven can get that hot.

Mitch Walzer, Prescott AZ

"Rosemary Lyndall Wemm" <lyndall at neurognostics.com.au> on 01/19/2000 09:28:36 PM

Please respond to "Rosemary Lyndall Wemm" <lyndall at neurognostics.com.au>

 To:      "'Charmaine R Taylor'" <tms at northcoast.com>,        
          "'louis'" <louis at pcmagic.net>, coblist at deatech.com  

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 Subject: RE: Cob: Baked Houses                               

Charmaine Taylor wrote:

> Here's a wacky idea for " hand to mouth [or hand to clay]  builders"   Use
a
> Solar Stove Top cooker pattern to make a solar oven that heats ONE brick
at a
> time to 600 degrees plus...bake  for a while, then place fresh adobe brick
in
> place, bake again...the parabolic style oven is $12. to make a pattern,
and
> hey, 10 or 20 of those puppies all baking bricks all day is a cottage
> industry!!!

Not really too whacky, Charmaine!  It might actually be possible - if such a
pattern were available.  Anybody know where to find one?  I'm sure the
stoves
could be useful to cook mud pies in the "off" season ;-)

- Rosemary

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