[Stoves] Preparing for the winter's fuel supply in Oregon

[Frank Shields]

Richard,

This is great info. If you send me a couple different briquettes, when I get
some time, I would like to do some simple tests on them to see if they can
be used to aid in formulating for making the perfect briquette. We then just
need to compare the test results with the 'how well they worked' results.
Perhaps we can find a simple way to put some science in all this. : )

Regards

Frank


Frank Shields
Control Laboratories; Inc.
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Subject: [Stoves] Preparing for the winter's fuel supply in Oregon

Here's a post from Richard Stanley with some pictures I have had to shrink
to get below the acceptable size limit.

It can be a bit time consuming so some posts that are difficult to be
reduced may get rejected.

Consider that many smartphones produce good quality jpegs which need 2 or
more megabytes of bandwidth. I find Irfanview offers a good batch processing
mode that can get them down to a standard size or, as in this case I reduced
the dimensions to 30% of original.

Also remember including all the text of the previous messages in the thread
also contributes to the size limit.

AJH

>Dear fello briquetters with ready access to, of all things, a used garbage
disposal and household sink. 
>
>> 
>> Planning for the winter supply of hollow core ag and household 
>> residue based  briquettes, means a lot of material processing.  Thats 
>> the not so much fun part of the process. I have long thought about 
>> the possibility of using a garbage disposal for pulping materials so I
got ahold of a scrapped double basin sink and bolted a scrap disposal on a
few days ago, just to see if it was worth pursuing.
>> Turns out a that its pretty efficient but you really have to clean 
>> out any rocks.  I got rid of those, by filling the non disposal side 
>> of the sink The larger basin, half full of water and soaking and 
>> sloshing the leaves /grasses ferns and wigs around a bit, to settle 
>> out the rocks, stones, metal stuff.  Next, I  skimmed off  the floating
material into the second smaller basin-- the one onto which I had attached
the disposal.
>> I then plowed screed the material over the entrance hole with right 
>> hand then stuff it in with a running garden hose spray nozzle in my 
>> left hand left hand .  It does  a good job  of chopping  and pulping the
fibrous  mass into a really well mixed slurry-without destroying the fibers
entirely- good enough in fact, that that with just a day of soaking to
soften everything a bit,  I can compact it directly in the press,  no paper
or other binder,--and more critically, no decomposition needed.
>> (it's amazing too, just how much gritty sediment accrues, in the 
>> larger soaking basin as well). Clearly wet processing of the feedstock
seems to be a good way to go..Will have to test it out over the coming month
before I am assured of its real viability but it' be far better if several
of us do the same thing -and share back the findings to speed up and deepen
the learning curve for the rest of us, eh !
>> 
>Richard Stanley
>Legacyfound.org
>