What Do You Do With All Your Fines
- I'm On Fire
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I saw that video. But then I thought that cement couldn't be good for the stove.
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Seems to me its such a small amount of cement as compared to the other ingredients that it would just turn to powder when the coal brick is burned.. Thats just my best guess, I'm excited to see how it turns outI'm On Fire wrote:I saw that video. But then I thought that cement couldn't be good for the stove.
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Try using Corn Starch as a binder. I have and it has worked very well. The corn starch holds the fines together very well and the "coal balls" I have made and burned have done very well in the Jr. Waste not want not I say.
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I'm curious too. But I'd of found a different binding agent.Lightning wrote:Seems to me its such a small amount of cement as compared to the other ingredients that it would just turn to powder when the coal brick is burned.. Thats just my best guess, I'm excited to see how it turns outI'm On Fire wrote:I saw that video. But then I thought that cement couldn't be good for the stove.
I just kind of scoop my fines up with the coal and put them in the fire.
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Well, I checked the "bricks" today, and well I either I didn't use enough cement or it wasn't warm enough for the cement to cure.
I made a mess, they all crumbled when I went to pick them all up.
Back to the drawing board. I am going to wait till it gets warmer out and let the Sun help "cook" them.
Dan
I made a mess, they all crumbled when I went to pick them all up.
Back to the drawing board. I am going to wait till it gets warmer out and let the Sun help "cook" them.
Dan