[Stoves] Best Selling Stoves in 2006

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Ken

I am wondering ..... if you are going to make such a large number of stoves 
in a relatively small number of locations, it might be worth getting a 
manual machine for producing the bricks.

The advantage of a manual press is that the water content of the mix can be 
substantially reduced giving a reduced shrinkage before firing, less 
fracturing, faster drying and higher overall final strength.  Otherwise the 
mix is the same - just less water.  The pressure involved is about 12 tons 
which can easily me produced manually with an over-center clamp mechanism. 
The Rocket Ring maker is one such example of a machine of this type, 
presently in use in Malawi.

Best regards
Crispin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ken goyer" <kgoyer at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Best Selling Stoves in 2006


Dear Tom,
I believe that so far, with Mathew and All Nations Christian Care, we
have made about 15,000 SixBricks Rocket Stoves in the Lira, (north)
Uganda refugee camps . I have 2,700 numbered pictures of  these stoves,
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