Make: Projects

CEB: Feet

Add the feet to your Compressed Earth Brick Press.

  • By Brianna Kufa
  • Category: Gardening
  • Difficulty: Moderate
CEB: Feet

Sketchup Model

Steps

Step #1:

Next
CEB: FeetCEB: FeetCEB: Feet
  • Mark and magdrill or punch the holes (13/16") in the lower press foot.
  • Place this centered on the upper press plate and transfer punch the hole locations.
  • Mag-drill these holes.
  • Torch out the hole in the center of the lower press plate.
  • Grind it smooth.

Step #2:

CEB: FeetCEB: FeetCEB: FeetCEB: Feet
  • Plug weld the threaded rod into the upper press plate, so that the threaded rod is about 1/4" deep in the plate.
  • Fill the hole with weld, then grind it flush.
  • The upper press foot NEEDS to be 12" exactly across at the top of it (the side without the bolts sticking up) or there will be "fuzzy edges" on your bricks. See the video for more info.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: