I might be able to assist you. When using a snuffer bottle you have to ensure that there is a good level of water over the gold. It is the suctioning of the water that carries the gold up the tube. If you can hear the air being sucked up you are losing the hydraulic lock that pulls up the gold. Hope this helps.
My opinion is you are running the machine way to fast and with the snuffer bottle keep the tip submerged under water to get all the gold in one pass. If you come to the U.S.A. look me up.
Dan, I'd love to come to the USA and look you up. We had a trip to Canada planned at this time for a family wedding but Covid got in the way of our 5 weeks in a hired RV. We've had our shots now so who knows what next year will bring. You are correct on the speed. I built this without a plan but I had a visual inspection of a working machine. That didn't help with working out speed and airflow but I'm learning. I needed full revs on the 10hp Honda to create the vibration to clear the screen but I was blowing most of my gold away. I altered pulley sizes to keep the screen vibration going while reducing the bellows speed. In the two days following I tripled my gold production so I'm on the right track. I only got two days before the winter rain settled in and ruined my chances of making dust. Instead I headed north with the metal detector and returned with over 800 small gold nuggets. We're travelling interstate at the moment and I'm looking forward to returning to the dryblower next month.
@@moneybox5733I Sounds like you are going in the right direction. One other pro tip is try to start dryboxes at 35-40 degrees and then adjust accordingly. To check recovery clean up at a predetermed short interval and go by the size of your gold. We are catching smoke gold.
Good luck to you both! I love seeing people having a go like this.
great video, looking forward to many more.
I might be able to assist you. When using a snuffer bottle you have to ensure that there is a good level of water over the gold. It is the suctioning of the water that carries the gold up the tube. If you can hear the air being sucked up you are losing the hydraulic lock that pulls up the gold. Hope this helps.
Thank you John. I'm sure I just have to get more practise, you know, more gold :)
@@moneybox5733 I wish you every success mate
Early days, the machine is working great.
My opinion is you are running the machine way to fast and with the snuffer bottle keep the tip submerged under water to get all the gold in one pass. If you come to the U.S.A. look me up.
Dan, I'd love to come to the USA and look you up. We had a trip to Canada planned at this time for a family wedding but Covid got in the way of our 5 weeks in a hired RV. We've had our shots now so who knows what next year will bring.
You are correct on the speed. I built this without a plan but I had a visual inspection of a working machine. That didn't help with working out speed and airflow but I'm learning. I needed full revs on the 10hp Honda to create the vibration to clear the screen but I was blowing most of my gold away. I altered pulley sizes to keep the screen vibration going while reducing the bellows speed. In the two days following I tripled my gold production so I'm on the right track.
I only got two days before the winter rain settled in and ruined my chances of making dust. Instead I headed north with the metal detector and returned with over 800 small gold nuggets. We're travelling interstate at the moment and I'm looking forward to returning to the dryblower next month.
@@moneybox5733I Sounds like you are going in the right direction. One other pro tip is try to start dryboxes at 35-40 degrees and then adjust accordingly. To check recovery clean up at a predetermed short interval and go by the size of your gold. We are catching smoke gold.