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[Cob] more on papercreterainbow at rainbowolf.com rainbow at rainbowolf.comTue Oct 19 10:14:55 CDT 2004
Peace be with your day. I am very keen to work with papercrete as the 'plaster' [interior and exterior] on an earthbag dome. [I hope this is not too far off the thread here....] I have Kelly Hart's video and found it very informative, however I don't think I am a competent enough engineer to construct something for the mixing of the papercrete. I wondered if anyone had some simple ideas for mixing the paper and water into a slurry without using electric power. Any and all advise is appreciated, thank you. Best of days to you. rainbow ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amanda Peck" <ap615 at hotmail.com> To: <Coblist at deatech.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:03 AM Subject: RE: re [Cob] Papercrete cob > I haven't tried it yet, glad someone is! > > I'm also glad to see a thread here!!! > > But I can see a couple of potential problems--answer these, and then go for > it! > > a) be sure and test your mix for FIRE. Rumor hath it that with too much > paper, it will smolder, not appear to be burning at all until it collapses > in a pile of ashes. More concrete, or maybe clay and sand will be what it > needs. Also test for shrinkage and cracking. > > b) how are you going to drain your paper mix? hope that dry clay and sand > will be enough? It might well work that way, but I suspect that you do need > your paper to be well soaked--no longer paper, but just fiber. > > c) one of the reasons for using straw is that those long strands have a lot > of tensile strength, which the short fibers in chopped paper will not. Do > you need that? maybe, maybe not. I sure wouldn't start a house until after > I'd seen what a bench and maybe a fairly thin wall (back on the bench?) > would do. > > ............... > D. Strong replies to Pam: > > That's funny, I was all ready to ask if anyone had > tried cobbing with Fidobe-should probably call it > someting like "fob" as fidobe goes more with > making-bricks. > > I tried to make a little fob-house model, it turned > into a flop-house. LOL! I did it wrong, I didn't even > let the paper dissolve in water first. I am going to > make another model, first dissoving the paper in > water, but only mixing it minimally with my hand-to > simulate what would happen if we were to mix it in a > tarp instead of a washing mashine. > > I'll tell you how it goes, LOL! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and > more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx > > > _______________________________________________ > Coblist mailing list > Coblist at deatech.com > http://www.deatech.com/mailman/listinfo/coblist > >
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