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Yeah, it’s an age old challenge, I guess, getting gold out of thick clay. I’ll give the pantyhose a go for sure. Have to mount a lightning raid on the missus’ smalls drawer

Pair of dirty old Crocs. No metal, good for wide hobbit feet, light, cool, can wear them in the creek… Mind you, I’m in NQ so I can get away with less cold protection

Yeah, definitely a few dos and donts would be a handy thing to chuck in the box, I reckon

Cheers mate 👍🏼 Do you find your filter clogs up quickly? I was using a sleeve of shadecloth for the same purpose and it choked up so quickly that it was more effort than it was worth

So I just heard back from Dustin and the thermal switch idea was correct; the motor is under too much stress. Apparently lay flat will put the pump under too much load from friction loss, and the sheoak needles don’t help either. The other thing is the whole unit is supposed to be under water...

Yeah, I’ve flicked him an email so I reckon he’ll know. I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything obvious first, to avoid looking like too much of a clown 😂

Yeah, I had that thought myself, and tried running it straight out the 50mm hose. Same thing happened, bugger it.

Yeah, good question. I assumed it would be but didn’t think to check.

Yeah, I saw that as well but reckoned it would be fine running in the cool(ish) creek water, though I suppose that the motor could still easily hit 43 degrees if it’s struggling

G’day you mob, Running the Bushman’s 4700 gph bilge pump (the ones that Gold Rat sell) with my high banker and it shuts down roughly every 15 minutes and needs to be left alone for another 15 minutes or so before it will start again. It’s running off two 60ah lithium batteries in parallel...