So I have#50 of medium bentonite chips left over from when my secret well got capped. I was hoping to make some greensand from this but needed a little advice. I've seen people grind down small bentonite into dust to mix with sand and water, but these chips are huge. While I could still do that, I was thinking maybe I could dissolve the chips in an excess of water, then mix that with the sand and give it a few weeks to dry down to a reasonable level then re blend the whole concoction like normal. Would that work? I know the idea is to coat the sand evenly with clay but I don't know if that is just going to be so much water that it's totally unmixable. I figured I'd try to do a #1 blend as a test and then mix up maybe #20 for a small sample test. Was gonna to start 12% bentonite and work from there. Opinions? Facts I missed? Is this totally doomed and I need to just grind it? Having played with stuff tangentially related to this in the past I don't really expect it to work, but I've yet to find a definitive answer so I figure I should try
Wow thanks Jeff, how did you find that so fast? I've been looking off and on for a bit now and hasn't seen such a thing. Well that looks promising, I was thinking I'd need to make it a lot wetter than that to avoid clumping but that looks like it worked out fine
