Hi All, Sorry I'm a week late on this. Nora's file with the pictures of presses can be downloaded from here: http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/Fuel-Presses-Hungary
Erin -----Original Message----- From: Stoves [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Stoves] new briquette press from Hungary Here's a reply from Nora that had a large pdf attached, I wonder if Erin will be able to upload it? AJH On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:25:31 -0800, Nora Feldmar wrote: >Hi! >(little correction: i am a Hungarian born Hungarian citizen, and now >living in Hungary again :).. i was just studying in Holland) > >When seeing the design from Haiti we were a bit afraid of using springs >for ejection, so we really wanted to push from the bottom.. And that >was a challenge with the spikes that make the holes.. And then my >colleague had the great idea with the two-way lid. (He is called >Attila, I include him in the list) And I dont think it should make much >difference that the holes are rectangular. > >The other great idea of his, which i am not sure if u can clearly see >from the pictures, is that one of the lids is actually a tray that >should slide under the briquettes after compressed (and pressed above >the mould), and when you lower the jack, the briquettes just stay on >the tray and can be moved (we will probably make another one of these, >to save time like with the two mould sets with the legacy press). When >we were testing the press, we had a little accident with the jack, so I >am not 100% sure yet whether the tray will leave the briquettes >intact(ish) but the first try when the jack was working was promising. > >The fabricators are of a small coop from another very poor region of >the country. (They are actually also Roma/Gypsy). A friend NGO set us >up with them, and they were really great to work with. > >Sure we would be very happy to make a manual out of this, but I first >want to wait until we can properly test it and hopefully make a second >prototype soon. The material costs were quite high which would be quite >good to reduce. > >I attach a collection of images and some info on presses that can be >used as inspiration. (I think it would be really interesting to >experiment with the screw press with the weights). > >Thanks for your support! >All the best, >Nora > _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists .org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
