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Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2025
The compression arms are very weak.Bent on first use.
Sung J Oem
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2025
Bricks made with sawdust and papers burned very well after drying for a few days, but I was disappointed by their build quality. I made about a dozen and they were pretty simple to use. However, the metal handles started to bend, and they became unusable. It would have been great if the build quality had been a bit stronger.
Customer
Reviewed in Sweden on March 18, 2025
Vad mycket jobb för att få till briketter gjorda av kartong. Bara glöm det och gå vidare.
john
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2024
better then the single units , just need some better weather and a bit more energy . on the whole does a good job
bateau
Reviewed in France on May 2, 2024
Conforme à attente
Austin
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2024
Handle was broken right out of the package. Now I have to wasn’t my time to go in town and ship it back.
閑古鳥にゃあ
Reviewed in Japan on October 1, 2023
燃やすのでなく、畑の雑草おさえのために風で飛ばないくらいの厚紙が欲しかったのでコレを買ってみました。古新聞から作ったパルプを各セルに投入する途中でアルミ板を入れて、半分の厚みのブリケットを一度に8個成形しています。土の上に敷いて何ヶ月防草効果を発揮できるかはこれから試します。英語で多くの人がレビューしているとおり、圧力をかけるには上に乗るのが一番です。ハンドルは華奢なので、持ち運び用くらいに思っておいたら良いでしょう。
D. L. G.
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2022
Arms are already so bent that it's unusable. Went to Dave at Armor Up Designs INC, in Virginia beach, 100$ later, see the photo! It's the bomb now!!!
Melissa
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022
Good product except the handle metal is really thin and bends while lightly pressing on it.
BSQuick
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2022
The wife and I are recycled and repurposed - we carry that mindset into saving or repurposing in many aspects of our lives: recycle bottles and cans, compost old produce, coffee grounds used in the garden. Why not recycle shredded paper?We love to use the fireplace and burning paper waste rather than trashing it leads to saving heating costs and landfill. I know that burning adds to carbon footprint but it is using natural wood fibers which also burn in forest fires from natural causes, ie: lightning strikes, ... enough soap box speeches.The press is sturdy enough to make decent bricks. The torque bars are not as strong but with careful use, can last if you don't over press the bricks for the last drop of water. Other alternative is to put a block or weight on the mold directly will compress the bricks more, but, I find that leaving some moisture allows for looser fibers resulting in faster burn. Either way, just takes a day or two out in direct sunlight to dry them out.I use a 5 gal bucket to soften the paper shredding and a concrete mixing paddle to turn it into pulp. Just add water to the bucket with paper (shredding to smaller pieces speeds the softening process), let it soak for an hour, mix till oatmeal consistency, scoop out into press (don't over fill or it can get jammed), add pressure, repeat. I only have done one layer but will try to add more pulp after tamping down the press to see if I can make the bricks thicker. By adding enough pulp to just below the sides of the mold, the end result is about 3.5x3.5 inch bricks. Will add the burn time after the next romantic nights use. (cue your preferred music)
Robert Berndt
Reviewed in Germany on November 20, 2022
einwandfrei, geht mit Papier Super, Papier mit Sägespähne geht auch Paieranteil muss sehr hoch sein . Nur Sägespähne da langt der Druck den man braucht nicht aus.
Finch
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2022
It works well for what it is but the handles used to compress the paper are thinner than they need to be in order to achieve decent compression of the paper. I would like to see heavier gauge steel to say the this would hold up to medium term use. I’ve used it to make about 50 bricks and I’ve had to bend the handles back straight twice. I’ve taken to standing on the compression pass before using the handles and that works well.
profsam
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2021
As others have commented, the arms are not strong enough to withstand much pressure (ours came with one arm already bent). Knowing this, we chose not to use the arms at all. Instead, we laid a board over the press and set a bucket of water on the board for weight. The even, gradual pressure worked well. We also determined that we got the best results with finer ripped/shredded paper, and also a "soupier" composition. A wetter mixture compacted better. We can press 4 bricks at a time. We like that we are making use of the paper that would have gone into the recycle bin (and who knows where from there). Overall, this is working better than the hand pressing that we did before. Those hand-pressed bricks burn for 30-45min in the fire pit, so we're hoping that these bricks will burn even longer (more compressed).
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