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Morris Dovey
 
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Default DIY Sawdust pelletising presses

Andy Dingley (in ) said:

| On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:45:41 -0500, Odinn
| wrote:
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|| I don't think you could use such things in a pellet stove though,
|| which is what I thought the OP was looking for.
|
| I (I'm the OP) don't know much about pellet stoves - we don't have
| them in the UK, nor a large pellet supply chain to feed them. I'm
| looking at improved storage for sawdust, then selling them off as
| bagged wood fuel to be hand-fed into manual woodstoves.
|
| Uncompressed sawdust is a pain to burn in a stove (low heat output)
| and I'm hoping the pellets will be easier to store too.

Andy...

You might spend a bit of time looking at DIY cigarette-making
machines. I found one that has a tobacco-packing mechanism that (I
think) could be adapted for pellet production.

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