Gaz&Al said:
Believe it or not pink is a great colour to show gold it stands out like the proverbial I have been told
I'd believe that. Probably wont ever find out first hand thpugh
Tathradj said:
A slick plate in that design starts the liquefaction.
The ore drops straight down then starts running forwards before it hits the matting.
You will get better separation of your heavies with one.
If any thing, Put a boiler box in with a sloped outlet facing towards the matting.
Yeah thats what I would have thought but they confused me over there at the other forum. I'll have to consider the boiler box idea
Rusty_G said:
Epic topic, great work PotOfGold! Looking forward to hearing how it runs!
Haha thanks
Hopefully it doesnt turn out to be an epic failure!
XIV said:
Now you have me thinking. firstly how are you going to clean it out, as it is solid.
2nd, if you where to print out the same thing, but in reverse, you could use it as a mold, and if that's the case, not only would it be flexible and easy to clean out, it would be 1 solid mat.
Firstly, way ahead or you
Have been looking into maybe making a mould and then doing it with a 2 part liquid polyurethane. Its not cheap but should make better mat. Theres so many differnt types with different hardness and stuff so Im a little overwhelmed and am not sure whoch one to use but I sent of a couple of emails so hopefully they'll get back to me with some advice. If anyone else has any advice on what I shoukd use please let me know. Secondly, I dont really get how its solidness is going to make it hard to clean out. Ill clean it out as I do my AM sluice which is also hard...I'll tilt it on its side and splash water over it. On top of that there is some flex so I can bend it and open up the riffles a little which should be enough to stop anything jamming in there. This is why I used ABS instead of PLA. PLA is hard and brittle. Drop it and it shatters. ABS on the other hand is hard, but also has some flex so it will bend rather than shatter if droped from a height.
Not really sure how printing out a mould would make it one solit mat either? I mean, I can still only print a max size of 200 200mm...so it would have to be a mould for each mat which I still have to join. Unless I print out parts of a mould and then join those parts together post print. I was thinking that I could print em out normally as individuals, join em together, get some liquid silicone, press the mold into itnand make a mold from the silicone, then get the polyurethane and pour it into the silicone mould giving me one large solid but flexible mat. Its and idea but not sure if it would work.
Tathradj said:
I would glue them together with Sikaflex.
Rough the joining area's up a bit them join them.
That way you can separate them later with a bit of effort.
Do you think I'll want to separate them? I figure that it may be better to test with them unjoined as I may want to rearrange them, but once I've found the order of things I figure it might be easier to have it as one piece. Hmm...
EDIT: Also, I plan on trying to design and test my own mats soon just for the fun of it so not sure how long a I'll be using these anyways.
