Nikom Chimnok on tue 9 nov 99
Reid,
I've been trying to reply to the discussion you sent off-list to me
and Jeff Lawrence about possibilities for ameliorating the exploitation of
3rd world ceramists. Unfortunately, my replies keep bouncing.
Amongst other things, the 3rd world Internet is not that reliable.
Do you have another or better address? Or shall we just post these things
on-list and bore people with solving the problems of Africa and Asia?
Regards,
Nikom in Thailand
Susan Fox on wed 10 nov 99
Nikom,
I have no connection to the 3rd world, but I would be quite interested in
following such a discussion. I used to have friends in Haiti who were
trying to export pottery and weaving in a responsible way. I bet many
craftspeople would be interested in the problem if you were to pursue it
on the list...
Susan.
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Earl Brunner on wed 10 nov 99
I think you should go ahead and bore us, for some of us it would do us good.
People tend to get a little complacent. Personally the talk about bullets was
a tiny bit uncomfortable. But hey, solving problems is good.
Nikom Chimnok wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Reid,
>
> I've been trying to reply to the discussion you sent off-list to me
> and Jeff Lawrence about possibilities for ameliorating the exploitation of
> 3rd world ceramists. Unfortunately, my replies keep bouncing.
>
> Amongst other things, the 3rd world Internet is not that reliable.
> Do you have another or better address? Or shall we just post these things
> on-list and bore people with solving the problems of Africa and Asia?
>
> Regards,
> Nikom in Thailand
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Reid Harvey on thu 11 nov 99
Nikom,
What a shocker to see 'seeking Reid Harvey' as the first topic on the
Clayart
digest. Is it too much to hope that the thread should continue? I'm
becoming more and more convinced that it can be really easy to make
refractories for ceramics and metal, and and do a lot of other kinds of
fuel-efficient burning in general. And I think people in low income
areas all over the world really need this.
One thing that really excites me about the water filter is that this can
be a second type of product for aspiring
ceramists, which makes them diverse and gives them something else that
is urgently
needed by their neighbors. I can't recall whether or not I sent you the
URL for our
dry press:
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Boardroom/6123/drypress.html
By the way, over the next sixteen days my family will be out of Cote
d'Ivoire, so I have signed off of clayart. Try reaching me at:
reidharvey@hotmail.com
I look forward to any thoughts you have about ameliorating living
conditions in the 'third world' through ceramics. Did I tell you about
'Build a Machine Shop from Scrap,'
a series of books by Lindsay Publications? The first book tells how to
build a charcoal burning blast furnace, using a 50/ 50 mix of dry mix
sand and fire clay. Using the castings from the foundry, with the helpof
the second book it is possible to make a lathe. Then it bocomes possible
to make a drill press, milling machine, etc., everything needed for a
complete metal working shop, and the cost is negligible.
Reid Harvey
Ceramiques d'Afrique
Abidjan, la Cote d'Ivoire
Nikom Chimnok wrote:
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