Gold Hog Mats
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DigginForGold
Matt
Yeah figured I pop my youtube channel on there 
but it printed poorly. I didnt realise but the bolts holding the print head were lose so the headnwas moving around so the first few sections printed quite poorly lesson kearned though. I need to tighten eveything up after every couple of prints.
but it printed poorly. I didnt realise but the bolts holding the print head were lose so the headnwas moving around so the first few sections printed quite poorly lesson kearned though. I need to tighten eveything up after every couple of prints.
DigginForGold
Matt
cecc said:
Thanks
but in hindsight i should have made the sections smaller. I didnt measure the Grubstake and just went with what I thought would be good but I could have made them shorter and fitted more in. But should be good enough as is.
DigginForGold
Matt
DigginForGold
Matt
Yeah definitely not going to last as long as proper rubber mats but they'll last long enough for it to be worth it since they cost under $4 each in materials.
I'll take the sluice down the creek on Monday and run it along the AM Grubstake
I'll take the sluice down the creek on Monday and run it along the AM Grubstake
Looks great mate, what 3D printer did you get and what size bed does it have
DigginForGold
Matt
Roverrock said:
Thanks. Its a chinese prusa i3 and the print bed is 200 200m.
Oxygin said:Wow that unreal great job
Thanks
Great job.
When the blonds ,'dance' or your finger does not have resistance penetrating the slurry your sluice should be optomised.
I usually run 8 degrees to start. Android app. Fill a 59 ltr bucket in 15 to 18 seconds sees the water flow around 15 to 20 mm above the mat an reasonably slow feed. Slow feed lets solution stratify as it moves down the sluice giving the goldmore exposure to the mat. Dumping large shovels can cause the slurry to overload the mat resulting in loss of gold.
Hope you do well
Barry
When the blonds ,'dance' or your finger does not have resistance penetrating the slurry your sluice should be optomised.
I usually run 8 degrees to start. Android app. Fill a 59 ltr bucket in 15 to 18 seconds sees the water flow around 15 to 20 mm above the mat an reasonably slow feed. Slow feed lets solution stratify as it moves down the sluice giving the goldmore exposure to the mat. Dumping large shovels can cause the slurry to overload the mat resulting in loss of gold.
Hope you do well
Barry
DigginForGold
Matt
Yeah I figured the 7 and a bit degrees was a decent enough starting point. But yeah definitely wasnt getting 15-20mm over the riffles...maybe 10mm so yeah was immediately apparent that there wasnt enough water. Going to get a lerger pump sorted but have to wait until pay day for that. Its a pretty thin sluice too so definitely wont be dumping large shovels in...more just take large shovel fulls and shake the shovel load in bit by bit. Anyways I hope I do well too Thanks for stopping by
Thanks for stopping by
DigginForGold
Matt
Hey.
The mats are are going well, but have kind of stalled for the moment while I wait to buy a bigger pump (probably in 2 weeks when I'm next paid ugh). In the meantime I posted up the vid about the sluice in my youtube vids thread in the youtube vid section if you haven't seen that, and I'm working on a couple of other 3D printing prospecting related projects so I'll update it when things come together
The mats are are going well, but have kind of stalled for the moment while I wait to buy a bigger pump (probably in 2 weeks when I'm next paid
ugh). In the meantime I posted up the vid about the sluice in my youtube vids thread in the youtube vid section if you haven't seen that, and I'm working on a couple of other 3D printing prospecting related projects so I'll update it when things come together - Joined
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Mate if you want to test how a 3700gh works on it, you can borrow mine to test, not like I can use it now as the creeks are ridiculous.
