We will be happy to see what we can discover about your samples. We are not a full-blown testing lab but we have gotten reasonably good at figuring things out....
... Hi John, My wife has lived here for over 30 yrs and never seen an Adobe house anywhere on the island.. If you know something she don't which is quite ...
Hello all! we have been reading this forum for about 2 years now and because of all your efforts, knowledge and information sharing we have started to make...
... Somehow the link did not make it through. David On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Jim Connolly < jim@... > wrote: Hello all! we have been reading...
... The papercrete people have an idea called tow mixer http://www.livinginpaper.com/mixers.htm#towmixer An adaptation of that might do the trick quite nicely?...
Jim, Any quantity of adobes is a success-- Be sure to oil the form well--how many bros does it take to pull the form?? ... Hello all! we have been reading this...
... Awesome Pics! Shouldn't be able to kick and break one I would think even with steel toed boots. lay one down on a sandy area with no stones in it and drive...
Surely they take a cut of the profits though......
Kurt Gardella & Conni...
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Jul 3, 2008 1:07 am
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... Hi Quentin, Yikes! a pound each.. With postal rates to the US from here.. I figure that would cost at least a 100.00 to send .. So I guess we just stick...
I have an old 11 cubic foot plaster mixer with a good (rebuilt) wisconson engine for 1000 dollars. Its here in tucson. Steve ... From: macraeliza To:...
(Comments follow posts) ... Ok we will try that - of course we may have to work at making a sandy area first ... We did - I read that hint here and it works...
Steve's mixer would be great for making adobes and will last for 20 houses. The Italian machine would probably last for one house, maybe. We did have some...
Quentin Wilson
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Jul 7, 2008 4:35 am
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Those are impressive adobes Jim and Ellen. Your videos and photos are equally impressive. Most adobe bricks will tolerate stones up to 1/3 the thickness of the...
Quentin Wilson
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Jul 7, 2008 5:06 am
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Yikes! a pound each.. With postal rates to the US from here.. I figure that would cost at least a 100.00 to send .. So I guess we just stick to the trail and...
Quentin Wilson
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Jul 7, 2008 5:11 am
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On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Quentin Wilson <quentin87539@...> ... Hehehehe! Yes, you are so right. Its enormous power and energy. I seriously...
Vault class coming up August 25 through September 5 at Von Bock Farms in Abiquiu to join the dome we built there two years ago. Intro course by Kirk Higbee Aug...
Quentin Wilson
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Jul 7, 2008 6:04 am
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OOPS! Not quite that heavy and brutal. We want the area of a half cylinder not the volume in #3! Corrections to #3 and #4 below. Vault class coming up August...
Quentin Wilson
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Jul 7, 2008 12:48 pm
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Can you put up on the yahoo site a simple cross section of the vault you are proposing, Quentin, as I’m interested how you go about this? J John Norton DWF ...
A pragmatic approach might be having the materials away from forms. You could create quite an operation with a truck, a whole bunch of gang forms, and an...
Quentin Wilson
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Jul 7, 2008 1:30 pm
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Can you put up on the yahoo site a simple cross section of the vault you are proposing, Quentin, as I¢m interested how you go about this. J I will do this as...
We (The Class, not an editorial We) always quote Susan Folwell who said: "The secret of adobe is that there are no secrets. Everything works." There is...
Quentin Wilson
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Jul 7, 2008 2:08 pm
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my workers have at times built two end walls and joined the vault bricks in the center. mauro rodriguez in 1998, adorned the center with a lightning pattern....
Quentin, We used two end walls (or intermediary arches) from which guide strings run from one support wall/arch to the other, above the vault. You need to ...
We don’t use straw either, just another hassle, and the termites eat it. Our roof bricks are small. Poor isrealis 3500 yrs ago in Egypt with tricky soil had...
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