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Briquette Maker for Recycling Newspaper and Junk Mail eko-mania E-M1001 - GREEN | 
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| Brand: eko-mania
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: £18.95 (On sale from £21.95)
Rating:  4 reviews
Color: Green
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.6
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 6.3 x 4.7
MPN: E-M1001
Model: E-M1001
EAN: 5060152130012
ASIN: B000OOCMB2
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Sturdy all metal construction | | • | Free heat from old newspapers | | • | New Improved Sieve Design for years of reliable service | | • | Easy and safe to use - just soak the paper, place into the mould and squeeze | | • | Logs will burn as well as wood for up to an hour at a controlled rate in a fire grate or woodburning stove |
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Product Description
Our custom made, environmentally friendly logmaker, enables you to recycle your waste paper into fuel. Logs will burn as well as wood for up to an hour at a controlled rate in a fire grate or woodburning stove. Help conserve forests, reduce landfill and save on heating costs by using newspaper, junk mail, shredded paper, cardboard, wood chippings, and wrapping paper as fuel.
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| Customer Reviews:
Fantastic for recycling April 15, 2007
O. McCartan (UK)
63 out of 63 found this review helpful
I bought this item just over a month ago and it has been in use ever since!
The briquette maker is very sturdy and even though it has made over a hundred logs so far, it is good as new.
Its great for getting rid of old newspapers and junk mail. I just put it through the shredder, soak it, and make the logs.
Because its made of metal I thought I might take a bit longer to be delivered to me, but it arrived as promised within a few days.
All in all, I'd say this is a good investment and well worth the money.
Solid and suprisingly effective February 10, 2008
jeremy gauntlet-gilbert (Wiltshire, United Kingdom)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I've used this gadget to make a few briquettes, and I'm pleased. They are currently drying next to my wood burner, so i can't yet comment on their potential as fuel. A few plus points; (1) decent sized, solid, chunky briquettes from unremarkable amounts of paper - it's not like the paper disappears to nothing and you end up with a rubic's cube's-worth. A newspaper goes a long way! (2) soaking the paper doesn't have to be too arduous, paper was ready for squashing overnight with a bit of bleach to help it along.
On the other hand, if you don't have an industrial sized shredder, be prepared for the fact that ripping the paper up takes a while. I found that soaking the paper first, then ripping, then putting into a bucket with bleach was easier on my wrists. Of course, if you're buying this gadget you are probably braced for a bit of effort in your recycling. It's certainly more fun than filling the council's black bin.
Easy as one two three March 27, 2008
Agnes Nutter (Salem)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
ONE :Just dip each sheet of newspaper in water for five seconds
TWO: Scrunch up the wet paper and press it in the Briquette Maker
THREE: After a few weeks drying the Briquette burns as good as wood in my log stove.
A brilliant product that is saving me money and helping the environment.
Great Value For Money! May 10, 2008
G. Powell (Channel islands)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
1 year on and 800 bricks made - photos available on request
Our bricks are a composite of wood shavings and newspaper, well soaked and mashed before being pressed. This year we are using more newspaper and less shavings to make the pulp more compressible, and also these bricks seem to have a more dense and solid feel to them.
We have performed only two modifications to the brickmaker:
1) Adding padding to the handles to make the palm of the hands more comfortable during pressing.
2) The addition of a metal strap to the underneath of the brickmaker, attached using rivets (see photos). This was necessary because after about 750 bricks, the sides of the brickmaker tended to 'part' during pressing, and the 'u' shaped cradle would fall through the bottom by approximately 5mm. The strap now stops the sides from parting.
Quite a bit of corrosion has occured as you can see from the photos, but this has not been a problem, and we expect to be able to make many more bricks with the device this year. The corrosion may have been partly due to the fact that we originally added bleach to the pulp mix, however we realised after the first hundred or so bricks that this was no longer necessary.
All in all, a great product - easy to use although some experimentation is necessary to obtain the optimum preperation of the paper pulp and shavings mix. We now add dry newsapaper and shavings, layer upon layer until a plastic dustbin is filled. We then add water using a hosepipe, and let the mix settle for a few hours. Afterwards, we reduce the contents of the dustbin to a pulp using a hollow metal pole.
This seems to be the optimum process for us. Once again, well done for designing a super product, and I hope you find these photos and notes useful.
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