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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>..Xavier,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sorry for your troubles with flakey briquettes: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I wish you had come with us to Three ways cafe up in Lushoto town up in the Usambaras, here in Tanzania a few days ago…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The best darn chapatis, mandazis and roast chicken I have ever tasted this side of the Pangani … <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The briquettes charcoal wastes swept off the seller stall floor, some paper scraps and a few leaves of unknown origin, are quick to start no appreciable smoke last about 2 hours and cost about 40% less than charcoal according to the shop owners…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>No clay is used. Its reported to retard ignition and to make the clinker product harder to dispose of. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Otherwise, In your case I don't know but I would guess that the paper is probably not sufficiently dissociated . You really have to get it smashed into whispy shards which dissolve in water, not curds or clumps but more like what happens when you soak toilet paper or kleenex in water ..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The quality and energy density It is NOT due to pressure but finesse in preparing the blend such that the final product is really solid and tightly bound with well dissociated fibers..…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>So many miss this point then revert to char briquettes dismissing the fine art of blending because they never got it in the first place… Stick with it Xavier & send me some pictures .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>encl: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Production in The Mkombozi group's "D" (=Doche) lab<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoTableGrid border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img width=324 height=432 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CCAB6F.66622790"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>PastedGraphic-4<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=404 valign=top style='width:202.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img width=303 height=450 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CCAB6F.66622790"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>PastedGraphic-5<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Re sent for Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>T.R. Miles, Technical Consultants, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Portland, OR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>503-292-0107 office<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>503-780-8185 cell<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>