@Ignacio-DHOME
16 ml is a pretty small amount ... that isn't even a half of a shot glass! I have to assume that was a typo? Or do I have this completely wrong?? I guess 16 ounces makes two cups. I did use 2 cups. Just wondered if 3 cups would give a heavier foam is all... I'll test it out as soon as I have room for another pour :)
The question was specifically: does more soap per water make heavier foam.
Total novice here, please forgive.
I was trying to get a 100 gm/liter weight using 2 cups suave daily clarifying shampoo to 5 gallons of water and just couldn't reach it. So I switched to 2 cups dawn ultra into 5 gallons of water and ended up using a foam weight of slightly over 100 gm/liter.
My question is: if I added another cup to the suave clarifying mix, like, 3 cups instead of 2...what would be the result? Do you think it would increase the weight? I am thinking so but wanted to run it by y'all before I started wasting more shampoo!
I saw that video, but he used metal panels that he poured the aircrete into and then attached the metal parts together.
I want to make a big closet to brew beer in with a cool bot in the wall, so am going to try to do some aircrete panels and see if I can work with them. First one today!
How did yours turn out, Noni?
So, got the new dragon xl and it works perfectly. Only issue I had was using wrong soap so it took a while to get 100 gm to a liter of foam since I had to keep weighing and adjusting and pondering and finally settled on using dawn ultra like another poster here suggested. My foam weight may have been about 110 grams-ish/liter, wonder what that portends for my first pour... but I couldn't for the life of me get it to be any lighter without totally overshooting so settled on a little too heavy vs too light.
For some reason I built a 4x8 frame and that is what I poured the 45 gallons into, all covered in plastic. A panel. I suspect a deeper/narrower vessel will give more satisfactory results but in my mind I see aircrete panels so that's what I did. They will probably be a bear to work with. I will probably have to cut them to move them by myself.
It was just the first pour, after all. Experimental.
Thought I would offer this follow up as far as how I'm doing with the new machine :)
Got the call, I'm sending this one back and will be sent one that works. I'm delighted!
And now the off/on switch won't switch off. I am seriously unhappy.
No, this is a device I spent a few hundred dollars on to be delivered to me whole. I did have to drill some holes in the mixer to connect the pvc pipe, and I did have to buy some 1/2 inch tubing but otherwise that was it. I can't open the unit without getting pretty rough with it. When I shake it gently something clunks around inside. Don't know what it is. Can't see it, can't get to it.
I will take pictures in the morning and I really would appreciate any help!
Basically, the water coming from the can of soapy water goes into the unit and then runs out the sides of it. With air compression, water and air come out the sides. The screws fell out of the bottom of it. At no time did the air pressure gauge ever register anything.
What's in there?
