On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:27:16 -0600, "Morris Dovey"
wrote:

Andy Dingley (in ) said:

| On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:10:45 -0600, "Morris Dovey"
| wrote:
|
|| You might spend a bit of time looking at DIY cigarette-making
|| machines.
|
| boggle
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| We have those in the UK.
| They look like this:
| http://www.roll-ups.co.uk/ishop/879/shopscr3088.html
|
|
| I've actually worked on commercial fag making machines. They were
| huge, ran extremely fast, but they didn't have much real
| compression to them.

DAGS for "Premier Supermatic". I think these are made in Canada - and
if you overload 'em and use real muscle, they'll produce a cigarette
so solid that it won't burn.

These are 'compress and inject' machines that insert a cylindrical
pellet of tobacco into a manufactured paper tube - not the same
approach as that taken with the 'roller' machines.

I don't suggest using a cigarette-maker as a fuel pellet producer -
but think that once you take a look at the mechanism, you'll see how
to make a simple (automatic, motorized) machine for making sawdust
fuel pellets. If you can't find one to examine locally, drop me an
e-mail and I'll send some pictures (but better that you should examine
one first-hand).


another machine that might serve to provide some inspiration but isn't
likely to be directly convertible to a pelletizer is a ceramist's pug
mill.