Hello man, that is hell of ovekill sluice... As golddigger myself, I made simple sluice for river concentrates final cleaning (tiny gold, after removing bigger pieces in gold pan), 3mm black rubber riffles floor (dont know exact english term), in half pipe (like you used for collecting), or narrow (5 cm) rectangle if you have more material, slow flow, a bit steaper. Plus: moves away bigger pieces, you see gold in upper section realy concentrated, small amount of concentrates, easy cleaning. Gold is heavy does not move much, anything longer than one meter is overkill (in river I use 60 cm)... Minus: gold always escapes, two runs concentrate 99 %, third is just for good feeling. Use tenside, best is rinse aid for dishwasher, does not foam. In normal water tiny gold floats due to water surface tension. I have seen that many times, lost gold because of surface tension. May be good to use tenside also for removing ash, as I said, gold floats, I have seen that many times... BTW: for gold related things (cleaning goldpans, blue bowls...) I use blue PETG filaments, water resistent...
Hi Fran, thanks for the ideas. yeah I realised when running that batch that it is way too much sluice. :) The material wasn't really suitable either. I needed to screen it way better. I am learning though. I'm from UK so gold panning isn't something you can just go and do to learn. One thing I was really impressed with, that I never see anyone do is the final catch basin at the end. Last chance lagoon I call it, although it wasn't really the last chance, it all went into buckets so I can filter out the wastes. I'm impressed that it actually caught anything. I thought it would just wash over completely. I reckon with enough test models and properly screened material I could make one that's about 2cm wide, 2 feet long, recycles its own water, and it would catch most of the good stuff from IC chips in two or three runs. The next variation of the sluice will be much smaller. It will fit inside a 4 inch rain water gutter and be made in a way that to clean it out, the sluice part turns on its side inside the gutter. All I have to do then is run water over it and catch it It was just an idea I had to try something with the 3D printer and I love playing about on Tinkercad so thought I would make it to try it out. I've designed about 30 different versions since based on what I learned from that one video. I have a blue bowl for larger batches of IC chips but to be honest it takes too long. 2kg of chip remains can take over 4 hours to run through the blue bowl as it needs to be run so slowly. The gold from milled IC chips is so small unless there is a bunch of it together you cant see it. hahaha yeah you got the english term right... riffles :)
The immediate concern I have is material. PLA is basically corn-goo. While varnishing it does help, at the end of the day it's still porous and partially hollow; meaning that over time as the coat of varnish weakens you'll the water with start sapping the prints integrity fairly quickly. Sealing the print with an ABS-like resin may be a better play on that front.
Hi Necro, thanks for watching. I agree, it's not the ideal setup for long term use and will require re-varnishing periodically. Also I figure that at some point in the future I will have to try to recover any trapped heavies from the plastic. For the amount I use it I figure if I give it a couple of coats of varnish 24 hours before every use it should be enough to keep it going for a while. Thanks for the idea of resin coating. I've been trying to find out which is best for working with PLA I might try that for version 2 once I figure out how best to use it. I'm only really using for trial and error prototyping to figure out the best set up for catching the heavies from IC chip remains. I have a lot of designs to test and PLA is cheap and easy to use for testing. Once I have the optimal number of sections/designs with the best catch rate, I will probably look at a more permanent set up, maybe even trying my hand at casting some silicon moulds from the final designs. Thanks again, appreciate the help.
Hi Zxcv, thanks for watching. Sorry but I do not have any manufacturing capability to produce on a large scale for sale. Best thing I could suggest is you can use Tinkercad and make your designs yourself and get a local supplier to 3D print them for you from ETSY.com.
Sorry Kieran, I haven’t done the refine on it yet, it’s still sat in beakers in the fume hood. When I get that done I will let you know but I couldn’t give any indication of the starting weight of the material or even what grade most of the chips where. It’s just a batch of random mixed IC’s and probably some RAM BGA’s thrown in there too
@@angrykieran7515 never even considered that, sorry mate, genuinely didn’t think it would be of any interest as there’s no point of reference as to the make up of what was incinerated first. I get that it would be easier to see the trapped heavies in a pan instead of the beaker. If I get a chance this weekend I will put something together
@@scouseurbanminer5106 Get a pretty good visual idea of how much material you are putting in. you also said about 1kg of incinerated IC's which i guess is integrated circuits like from ram, SD cards etc. Yeah, i think the money shot would be seeing the gold showing up in a pan or something
Hello man, that is hell of ovekill sluice... As golddigger myself, I made simple sluice for river concentrates final cleaning (tiny gold, after removing bigger pieces in gold pan), 3mm black rubber riffles floor (dont know exact english term), in half pipe (like you used for collecting), or narrow (5 cm) rectangle if you have more material, slow flow, a bit steaper. Plus: moves away bigger pieces, you see gold in upper section realy concentrated, small amount of concentrates, easy cleaning. Gold is heavy does not move much, anything longer than one meter is overkill (in river I use 60 cm)... Minus: gold always escapes, two runs concentrate 99 %, third is just for good feeling. Use tenside, best is rinse aid for dishwasher, does not foam. In normal water tiny gold floats due to water surface tension. I have seen that many times, lost gold because of surface tension. May be good to use tenside also for removing ash, as I said, gold floats, I have seen that many times... BTW: for gold related things (cleaning goldpans, blue bowls...) I use blue PETG filaments, water resistent...
Hi Fran, thanks for the ideas.
yeah I realised when running that batch that it is way too much sluice. :) The material wasn't really suitable either. I needed to screen it way better. I am learning though. I'm from UK so gold panning isn't something you can just go and do to learn. One thing I was really impressed with, that I never see anyone do is the final catch basin at the end. Last chance lagoon I call it, although it wasn't really the last chance, it all went into buckets so I can filter out the wastes. I'm impressed that it actually caught anything. I thought it would just wash over completely. I reckon with enough test models and properly screened material I could make one that's about 2cm wide, 2 feet long, recycles its own water, and it would catch most of the good stuff from IC chips in two or three runs.
The next variation of the sluice will be much smaller. It will fit inside a 4 inch rain water gutter and be made in a way that to clean it out, the sluice part turns on its side inside the gutter. All I have to do then is run water over it and catch it
It was just an idea I had to try something with the 3D printer and I love playing about on Tinkercad so thought I would make it to try it out. I've designed about 30 different versions since based on what I learned from that one video.
I have a blue bowl for larger batches of IC chips but to be honest it takes too long. 2kg of chip remains can take over 4 hours to run through the blue bowl as it needs to be run so slowly. The gold from milled IC chips is so small unless there is a bunch of it together you cant see it.
hahaha yeah you got the english term right... riffles :)
The immediate concern I have is material. PLA is basically corn-goo. While varnishing it does help, at the end of the day it's still porous and partially hollow; meaning that over time as the coat of varnish weakens you'll the water with start sapping the prints integrity fairly quickly. Sealing the print with an ABS-like resin may be a better play on that front.
Hi Necro, thanks for watching. I agree, it's not the ideal setup for long term use and will require re-varnishing periodically. Also I figure that at some point in the future I will have to try to recover any trapped heavies from the plastic. For the amount I use it I figure if I give it a couple of coats of varnish 24 hours before every use it should be enough to keep it going for a while. Thanks for the idea of resin coating. I've been trying to find out which is best for working with PLA I might try that for version 2 once I figure out how best to use it. I'm only really using for trial and error prototyping to figure out the best set up for catching the heavies from IC chip remains. I have a lot of designs to test and PLA is cheap and easy to use for testing. Once I have the optimal number of sections/designs with the best catch rate, I will probably look at a more permanent set up, maybe even trying my hand at casting some silicon moulds from the final designs. Thanks again, appreciate the help.
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Hi Zxcv, thanks for watching. Sorry but I do not have any manufacturing capability to produce on a large scale for sale. Best thing I could suggest is you can use Tinkercad and make your designs yourself and get a local supplier to 3D print them for you from ETSY.com.
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Sorry Kieran, I haven’t done the refine on it yet, it’s still sat in beakers in the fume hood. When I get that done I will let you know but I couldn’t give any indication of the starting weight of the material or even what grade most of the chips where. It’s just a batch of random mixed IC’s and probably some RAM BGA’s thrown in there too
@@scouseurbanminer5106 i would have thought you could just put it in a pan to get an idea of whats in there
@@angrykieran7515 never even considered that, sorry mate, genuinely didn’t think it would be of any interest as there’s no point of reference as to the make up of what was incinerated first. I get that it would be easier to see the trapped heavies in a pan instead of the beaker. If I get a chance this weekend I will put something together
@@scouseurbanminer5106 Get a pretty good visual idea of how much material you are putting in. you also said about 1kg of incinerated IC's which i guess is integrated circuits like from ram, SD cards etc. Yeah, i think the money shot would be seeing the gold showing up in a pan or something