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Briquette Maker for Recycling Newspaper and Junk Mail eko-mania E-M1020 - BLACK | 
 enlarge | Brand: eko-mania
Category: Home Improvement
Buy New: £16.95 (On sale from £19.95)
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 127
Color: Black
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.6
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 4.7 x 6.3
MPN: E-M1020
Model: E-M1020
EAN: 5060152130074
ASIN: B00177X5YS
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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 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:
 Working well: has made hundreds of logs at almost no cost August 18, 2008
Hooligween (Kernow, Great Britain)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Our Briquette Maker has been in use for about six months now and is standing up to daily wear-and-tear very well. I admit to standing on it to compress the wet paper, and haven't managed to break it yet. Not bad, considering my general reputation for utter destruction of most mechanical things...
We are building up a huge stack of 'logs' which have cost us virtually NOTHING, which is great news considering how much all fuels now cost.
The Briquette Maker is extremely simple to use and produces neat oblong 'logs' which burn well once they have fully dried out. We use it to get rid of all our junk mail, newspapers, magazines, paperwork, envelopes and so on.
Normally we soak the rubbish for 24hrs; we don't use bleach (cos we're trying to be properly eco!) but leave the bucket in a warm place. Newspaper and white paper goes mushy very fast; glossy magazine paper and brochures take much longer to break down and benefit from 'dobbing' with a big stick. The best logs have a decent proportion of newspaper or similar in them because the more glossy stuff goes in, the harder it is to get them to burn.
We've left our logs for three months in a greenhouse to dry thoroughly: you also need to make sure that in wet weather they don't absorb moisture from the atmosphere!
Another tip: if your material is full of staples (like magazines often are) or plastic windows or glue/gum, then it's best to leave these bits out before you soak the paper. Any woodburner won't like getting lots of metal/plastic fed to it, so we try to weed them out as we go.
It make take a few attempts to get the hang of the maker, so don't be afraid to get a bit mucky (or buy thick rubber gloves), and learn how to use your feet to keep the frame steady as you extract each log!
This is a fab piece of kit; proving to be robust and it's going to save us a fortune in wood and heatlogs this winter.
8/10
 briquette maker July 30, 2008
bricky (uk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
very easy to make,if you first fit newspaper in base,bottom and sides,with enough to cover top later,fill with your newspaper,then cover,when you press down and remove,you will have a completely encased brick.
Just as Good as the Green One July 30, 2008
T. Quinn
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
We bought the black one because, at the time, it was cheaper than the green model. We find it to be perfectly robust and making briquettes is a doddle as well as good fun. The hardest part is tearing up the newspapers!
When using newspapers, don't cut/tear them too small and don't let them steep until they disintergrate and form a porridge - the pieces will certainly ooze through the holes. Pieces a few inches square, well saturated, work fine. Shredded junk mail can be added to the mix.
One criticism is the design of the handles. These do dig into one's hands when squeezing out the water. I made up a couple of add-ons from rigid plastic tubing split open length-wise, slipped over the originals and bound with duck tape. These made a big difference. Five stars would have been awarded if the manufacturer had included a couple of professionally-moulded items in the first place.
We're currently building up a supply of briquettes for use in the chiminea come autumn.
 brickmaker July 19, 2008
T. Fowler (UK)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Almost impossible to make useable paper bricks even in small quantites by this experienced brickmaker. The construction is even flimsier than other brickmakers bought through Amazon. The thin metal sides balloon out causing paper to squeeze out, awful mess and much more (wasted) effort needed. Look elsewhere or make your own.
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