Heating and reusing asphalt

The next time she goes to spend a week at her sister's place, you know what you need to do.

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Ignore the Mrs. What does she know about home repairs? Does she let you you tell her how to clean the house?

Here's a portable asphalt recycler.

For a municipal operation, looks like you need 2 guys to do the work and a half dozen supervisors to stand around with their thumbs up their asphalts?

Maybe use the missus' KitchenAid stand mixer and heat the bowl with a propane torch?

Or maybe a cement mixer from Wuhan Harbor Freight?

It would seem to me that to make old material into decent new material would require mixing in some new petroleum based glue that's sticky and binds it all together. Where one would get that in small quantities, IDK. Without it, I would be skeptical that it would work well, would be durable enough to last, but then I've never tried it.

When they resurface asphalt roads around here, they have a train of grinder -> paver -> asphalt tanker, all connected together that grind the top three inches, add hot asphalt, and pave it right back down.

Then they put a virgin topcote on.