Nundle. what a day!

[WalnLiz]

Absolutely no idea mate, there's about 10 different opinions and they're all a guess.

Cheers Wal,

 

[WalnLiz]

Totally of the topic wal, but mystery parents live in Canberra, and they still can't, for the life of them, figure out why all the number plates begin with Y, do you know why? Just so that I can pull my poor old dad out of his misery?

Liz here,

I hope this cures your poor Dad's misery.....

After more than 41 years of issuing numeral only number-plates the ACT introduced an alpha-numeric plate for passenger cars. In 1954 the ACT had been allocated the series YAA-000 to YZZ-999 for this purpose by the Australian Transport Advisory Council. It took until the 20th of September 1968 for the "Y" plates to come into existence. These were the first plates in Australia to use the new reflective sheeting for the background on a permanent basis.

The various states and territories (except Northern Territory, which has all numbers, and Norfolk Island, which has its own NI plates) had plates allocated according to the alphabet.

New South Wales: AAA-000 to FZZ-999
Victoria: GAA-000 to MZZ-999 (Ixx-nnn series skipped)
Queensland: OAA-000 to QZZ-999 (Oxx-nnn series initially skipped by Queensland)
South Australia: RAA-000 to TZZ-999
Northern Territory: UAA-000 to WZZ-999
Tasmania: XAA-000 to XZZ-999
Australian Capital Territory: YAA-000 to ZZZ-999

Commonwealth cars' plates started with a red "Z". By the 1980s the states were running out of new combinations and started using other states' "beginning letter", but ACT stuck with "Y". Various new plates have been introduced which have moved away from the simple 3 letter 3 number setup over the last decade or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_vehicle_number_plates

 

[dirttreasure]

Fantastic info liz!! Will let dad know.

 

[headbut]

@ 2.40 AM ???

 

[dirttreasure]

Yep! 2.40! Champion! Are you nocturnal Liz?

 

[dirttreasure]

Today i found some little tiny flakes in my jobe 45" carpet. Yay! As it takes so long to pan, I put 5 runs into my poverty pot, a more life wheat grass container! I don't think I'm using my sluice properly however, but I recorded it using my ace camera. I will put it on you tube when I get home, and you lot can show me where I'm going wrong! Please? If you have any links to sluice box operation, It would be greatly appreciated.

 

[WalnLiz]

Looking forward to the vid mate,....U sure u turned the camera on and the battery wasn't flat, Stick your gold pan at the end of your sluice with a big rock in the middle of it. If any gold's getting through it will get sucked behind the rock by its vortex and the sand/gravel will exit the pan.

Most of the time if gold is getting through it's because the riffles are too full, and the remedy is preferably more water flow. If not enough water flow the only option is more slope, but if you do this, leave the pan with rock at the end of the sluice. Best of luck out there ,

Cheers Wal.

 

[dirttreasure]

Hey cool wal! I did use a big rock to hold it down, thought I was doing the wrong thing? Ha! Very funny with the charged camera quip. I did charge it this morning, so it should be interesting to see the outcome? More water flow? I noticed with less that nothing was getting stuck in the riffles? I had major back ups with lots of water? First time user with the sluice, just bought it. It arrived from America last week. Do you have a vid on sluice box set up? I bet you do? Better subscribe to your channel!

 

[dirttreasure]

P.s Tell Liz, thanks for the number plate info! Conversations at your place must be awesome?

 

[WalnLiz]

Did you use a big rock to hold the "Sluice" down, or to hold the gold pan down behind the sluice...??? Major backups with lots of water????

 

[dirttreasure]

To hold the sluice box down. I re-read what you said, that sounds like a good idea. I probably lost gold???? I had a beautiful v at the flare, and a ribbon effect, for better choice of words, going across the sluice, but I kept getting build up in the first and last riffle sections?

 

[WalnLiz]

By the sounds of that you've got the sluice set pretty right. The first riffle catches the heavies first and usually gets the most build up.

Cheers Wal,

 

[dirttreasure]

Oh? So it's not a problem that the first riffle is getting a bit of build up? I thought the whole entire box should be clean? As you will see, if my camera was charged? Bahahahaha! From the vid I will post, that I moved the sluice around a bit trying to get it to work properly. Bet I lost a lot of gold doing that?

 

[WalnLiz]

Can't wait to see the vid....All will be revealed, First riffle isn't too bad,....all riffles means your doing a lot of digging for the exercise alone. :8

Cheers Wal,

 

[dirttreasure]

Man! I did do a lot of digging today. Can't wait to see the outcome from my poverty pot???? Yes it was mainly the first riffle. Hooray!!! I thought I was way off?? The mighty " morelife wheat grass pot," shall reveal all when I get home?