Sluice with Power head apdaption assy

[GFC07]

Hi All,

Sat night, misses has gone to sleep on the couch, i've had a few VB's now and i'm bored.

Ill try and show you (if i can work out how to put up a piccy) a design of a traditional sluice with a removeable power head assy ive sketched up on google.

They are about 1200 long + the power head assy approx 300mm, @ 250 wide

Bunnings V mat (Black stuff), Bunnings miners moss (Green stuff) Riffle tray with extruded mesh at the end.
Might work out some adjustable legs for it and a bit of a stiffener underneath perhaps.

Let me know what you think :lol:

hope that worked

 

[Beagleboy]

I think the expended with "green stuff" should be in the back of the sluice and about 3 x length with 4 riffles at the end of the sluice. The "black stuff" should be just before the expended just past the boiler section. Thats where you will find most of the gold. If you are using unbacked "green stuff", put the "black stuff"under it.
That's how my HB is set up and works really well.

 

[Goldslave]

The all ally sluice is version 1, the other one is version 3 and modded in my annexe in a caravan park.
#1 Version works real well but has it's draw backs with putting it together and dismantling it if you are to move it back and forth to your camp etc, this is why I am continually modding and looking for the best setup I can have with minimal fuss and best recovery.

With #3 I have achieved a washing effect and helps with separating the clays, roots etc. The only thing I will change with the top section is the length, remembering that the length needs to be enough to allow the gold to be washed off host material, ie clay covered rocks, roots etc and still have a chance to settle to capture it.

The engineered, laser cut legs are good when you don't have anything else, I am seriously considering wheels for it to help with access to some places and also as my poor old body is not as young as it use to be will take away some unnecessary pain associated with lugging my gear to a spot I am working.
Someone commented on my spray setup, It works fine with my design and I have water pressure and volume at my finger tips when required,
Cheers

 

[GFC07]

Thanks for the feed back guys, appreciated.

So i have ordered from the local sheety 4 off the following Sluices bases and intake assy's

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/doc/member-docs/3992/1416797066_1200-250_sluice_body.pdf

SO the rubber Vmat (1m long) will run the length of the sluice as the "blue bunnings miners Moss" that i'm using has no backing.

Miners moss will be 800 long.

Cheers,

 

[Beagleboy]

You can buy a door mat at Bunnings that has a backing.

 

[GFC07]

Yeah i saw those mats Beagle, but as i am making 4 of these, it wasn't cost effective for me to do it that way.

I'm using the V matting from bunnings for the length of the sluice (1m of it anyways) then the moss will go over the v matting @ approx 900mm long, then the riffle plate will go over the top.

I'm still undecided on my final design for the riffle assy, I think i may make 2 or 3 riffle assy's trying different things, ive also drawn up some hydraulic riffles just fooling around that i think could potentially work.

Need to work out a few things, and there will be a shite load of little holes that would need to drilled, that will be time consuming.

Cheers,

 

[UreekaDave]

Nice looking sluices Goldslave, Is that Goldhog matting in the all Aluminium version? Wheels sounds like a good idea, especially if you can remove them easily
(something I'm working on for my own highbanker.) I did a similar thing with the legs of mine too, angled so that you can loosen them without the whole thing crashing to the ground! Good luck with the R & D!
Cheers

 

[cracka]

Get a quote to laser cut the riffles with the holes burnt into them. Just a thought.

Cracka

 

[GFC07]

Ideas man you are cracka, might get a quote to do just that :lol: