Cat Litter Recommendation

My advice is to make sure you use fresh cat litter...

Neil

Not at all. Dung is good stuff in moulding sand - it helps bind it together. And it was the material of choice for mending marine boilers.

"Aye, my lad, I know. You'll be thinking I'm decrepit . My mind's wandering through sweating round here, when I'm past it, to find that in-take to the vacuum. But I'm telling ye. It was horse dung and good stuff too, to stop weeps in the boilers, those days."

Only real men smear dung these days because you wimpy lot like keeping your pretty hands clean. If you're serious about quality you have to use the real thing. No excuses - get stuck in, dung and sand has to be well-kneaded. No gloves, the texture tells you when it's ready to use.

Man up. Don't listen to experts, they know nothing. Health and Safety gone mad I tell you. A dose of E.coli never hurt anybody...

Dave

The problem is not only E.coli but Toxocariasis.

Lots of exciting pathogens possible from 'diseased faeces' but never forget the power of faecal transplant

S.O.D. is quite right, dung is very satisfactory as a binder. I once saw an archeology program where they were reproducing bronze age axe heads using mold materials of mixed horsehair, sand and ......sheep dung

Chas

use the crystal type and some caustic soda to cook up some water glass. then use that with sand to do the casting.

there is plenty on the web about sodium silicate made from cat litter to do casting.

You really need cow poop, cat poop has completely the wrong consistency, if you roll some between your hands you will see what I mean, this is best done at arms length.

Sounds very fishy to me!

Clive

I had planned to use fresh cat litter. Used litter from Toms is pretty rank even if there are no solids.

I have used cow muck as a plasticiser when repairing cob in my parent's farm house. Also in making gullys in the bottom of inspection pits for the sewers in that house. Cat muck - No. Just no.

Regards

Richard.

There was a Jeynes Corner article in ME in the '60s explaining the use of manure for cores for, I think, cast iron pipes.