On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:16:05 GMT, "Eric J. Comeau" wrote: One of those 1/2 inch section in your bathroom
Kinda make me wonder about ships that haul rice.
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Just some thoughts running through my head on this topic...Isn't this idea the same as MDF products? Basically sawdust held with a binder and compressed. Homemade solutions: For compression, would a log splitter be suitable? The couple of tons of pressure might work well for small briquets. Or how about a steel bracket to hold a hydraulic jack to ram the slurry into a steel tube. Which would compress better, a short wide diameter pipe or a longer more narrow pipe. I guess the less area (small diameter), the more pressure per sq.
On 14 Feb 2005 05:30:52 -0800, "WoodchuckCanuck" vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:
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Think mnore around 20 tonnes of pressure...
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:50:51 -0500, tiredofspam vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:
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Sorry. The 20 tonnes is the pressure exerted by many wood splitters. I was not looking at what you needed. After I had posted a wondered if that might happen.
If you can find a site that shows a machine that makes the logs, and by some way work out the diameter of the hydro cylindr that does the job, if it's a direct push, with no levers etc, then you can work out what they use.
Ok, here's the scoop, as much as I can pass on...
100psi pressure (they use a hydraulic cylinder). The base of the mould is about 7"x7", so that's almost 5000 pounds of pressure 4 pounds of wax, shavings, "needles" (think toothpicks), and sawdust all mixed together. Approximately 40% wax. Regular candle wax or whatever should work fine. That's what they were using originally, till they started buying in bulkClint
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