Cob: Baked Houses

[avalon bruce]

been drying adobe with NO oven for about 3,000 years !!!!  get real
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From: <Mitch_Walzer at yavapai.cc.az.us>
To: <coblist at deatech.com>; <lyndall at neurognostics.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 9:20 AM
Subject: RE: Cob: Baked Houses


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> impressed that a "backyard" solar oven can get that hot.
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> Mitch Walzer, Prescott AZ
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> "Rosemary Lyndall Wemm" <lyndall at neurognostics.com.au> on 01/19/2000
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> Please respond to "Rosemary Lyndall Wemm" <lyndall at neurognostics.com.au>
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>  To:      "'Charmaine R Taylor'" <tms at northcoast.com>,
>           "'louis'" <louis at pcmagic.net>, coblist at deatech.com
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>  cc:      (bcc: Mitch Walzer/YCC)
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>  Subject: RE: Cob: Baked Houses
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> Charmaine Taylor wrote:
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> > Here's a wacky idea for " hand to mouth [or hand to clay]  builders"
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> > Solar Stove Top cooker pattern to make a solar oven that heats ONE brick
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> > time to 600 degrees plus...bake  for a while, then place fresh adobe
brick
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> > place, bake again...the parabolic style oven is $12. to make a pattern,
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> > hey, 10 or 20 of those puppies all baking bricks all day is a cottage
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> Not really too whacky, Charmaine!  It might actually be possible - if such
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> - Rosemary
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>  Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM,
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