<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ron, daniel et al.<div>Apologies for my atrocious spelling. </div><div>Here is what I was trying to say:</div><div> </div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><i>Ron, </i></div><div><div><i>Often greater squeezing pressure (to achieve greater density) is</i><b><i> NOT</i></b><i> the solution. It </i><i> is most often about blending the right amount of fibrus material and combustible infiller. Its </i><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">about attaining the right</span> </i></b><i>combination of fibers that are conditioned to flex plastically </i><i>with an</i><i> infilling material that is dense yet relatively porous. No amount of force will create a good briquette using the wet process becsue increased pressure results in shearing of the fibers and vaporising the water in the slurry, creating a crude form of steam cannon. </i></div></div><div><div><i>I do not know what blend Approvecho uses as we lost contact with them after they visited here to gather what we were doing, but I would say that it is very likely that if you found paper blends there. </i><i>Relatively dense briquettes can be achieved with paper-based blends by hand </i><i> but paper is far from the ideal in terms of good hot combustion…</i></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><i><div style="font-style: normal; display: inline !important; ">Thanks for your patience,</div></i><br><div><i><div style="font-style: normal; ">Richard Stanley</div></i></div><div>=====</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>