paper brick compactor for rocket stove

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This is a model you can easily resize. At 900%, it's utilized for testing the compactor bricks process with a small quantity of paper, checking if putting paper bricks in stoves is a good idea. I'm testing it on a compact rocket mass heater. It's designed to fit a 160 mm bed. The handles need to be printed with either 50% or 100% fill. Other parts work well with 15% fill and 3-4 shells. You'll only require four 3mm rods to complete the device. Place paper inside a large can filled with water, then let it sit for one hour – you'll have a paper marmalade that's easy to compact into bricks. On a real metallic device, it takes three days to dry and 50 hours to produce seven cubic meters of bricks, which is the time typically needed to split wood. If this test on the tiny device goes smoothly, I'll buy a bigger one.