Smoke never smelt so good! Like a Giant's pipe, the new-lit shavings turn to curling gray mist. Now, they are minuscule glowing embers and the smoke has gone. A lean bright flame emits from the clay mouth, soon to boil our soup!
Paper or Plastic?... or honey or sugar or...
This week we started a set of experiments with natural glues and their applications. Paper Mache sample wafers and bowls were made out of varying ingredients in hopes that we will be able to identify differences in performance. Is the recipe too brittle? Does it cure well? Is it bendable? Is it elastic? These are the kinds of questions we hope to answer. The goal for this experiment set is to use materials easily available in the third world to make a water-proof housing for the windmill motor. And I am sure the applications don't stop there.
Our recipes consisted of:
1pt flour, 2pt water mixed with either
A) nothing,
B) 1/2 pt sugar,
C) 1/2 pt honey.
Newspaper strips were dipped in this and layered. We even did one with plastic bag strips just out of curiosity... probably won't work but it cant hurt!
Cara Tobe and Daniel Meeks tearing newspaper
Aww... brothers
We will let you know how they turned out next week!
Giant's Cob Pipe: Inaugural flight of the Sawdust stove!
Preflight prep consisted of taking the PVC forms
out of the cob and packing the motor with sawdust fuel.
Here is a "worm's eye" view of the base once we got the PVC forms out.
Watch as we go from mud on a pipe to super efficient sawdust burner!
It took a while to light it but once we got it going we were able
to make some really awesome soup!
mmm mmm good
Satisfied by a full days work and hot soup in our bellies we finished the evening off by playing with fire and taking one last glimpse at the stars. We can't wait to be back next week!
(Playing with fire)
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