Talk:CEB Press Intro

This page will hold the final version of the CEB Press Intro after the wiki reorganization. This is a list of pages that might hold relevant info. These need to be consolidated here: --Conor 10:00, 20 February 2011 (PST)

• The Liberator Beta v1.0 Specifications
• The Liberator Full Product Release Improvements
• CEB Press 2
• Full Product Release - The Liberator, Manual Version
• http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2009/01/factor-e-live-distillations-part-5-the-ceb-story/
• http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/05/brick-pressing-rate-maxed-out-16-bricks-per-minute/
• Blog category Compressed Earth Block Press
• Blog category Open Source CEB Press
• 10 page overview from Oberlin team

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== According to http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/06/full-product-release/ -

• The design of the manual machine is identical to the fully automatic version, minus the large hopper, vibrator, sensors, controller, and solenoid valves.
• We achieved 16 bricks per minute with a hydraulic power source of 24 gallons per minute
• The next competitors with a machine of comparable soil throughput appear to be priced between $45k (Powell and Sons) and $65k (AECT)
• Materials costs were $3610 for fully automatic version

Comments

Very nice! It's good to start seeing the documentation come into place.-MJ

Please link to CAD drawings from Open Pario.

Collaboration with Auroville Earth Institute?

The Auroville Earth Institute also has a CEB press, which seems capable of producing various block shapes.

What should we copy from them? How to best collaborate with them, so that both sides improve their machines?

--Elifarley 22:22, 5 May 2011 (PDT)