Pellet-izing.
First try on 2022.03.29 was a miserable failure. Too wet. Liquid sludge seeped, and in some cases sprayed every where.
Then too dry. Think dust bowl wind storm. Only this time in charcoal.
So we spent half a day cleaning up.
Second try 2022.03.30
Charcoal dust left over from yak-a-yak-ing. Smaller than 1/8th"
Flat die pellet Mill. Pretty basic. Under the green shroud is a right angle gear from a Suzuki Multi-Cab. Rpm’s controlled by pulleys.
This is the binder. Locally it is known as “Gow-gow”. A mixture of an undetermined ratio of the worst quality rice and cassava flour. Usually obtained from cleaning out the traps, nooks and crannies of the milling machine.
Most folks mix this with babang, (rice bran), and crack field corn for poultry feed. Costs about 12 cents a pound. And everyone knows how to make it the old style.
Mano-mano mixing. Trowel, metal bucket, etc. So far the mix is …
1 kg charcoal dust
200ml water
50g of binder.
Finished pellets drying in the sun.
Tomorrow, depending on dryness … we will clean up the bottom of a kettle and do a burn test in the kitchen rocket stove.
If that burns pretty clean, then I will kludge up a particle filter out of a paper towel and water bottles tops.
Put that inline right before the air intake on the motor. We want to have some sort of visual indicator of post filter - pre engine fuel quality. Lowest of tech of course.