diy bazooka mini trap sluice

Since tax, customs and shipping to europe is ridiculously expensive I've made a simple design based on the Bazooka Mini Trap Sluice. Everyone with access to a small table top CNC or Laser Cutter could make it. Had to guess the dimensions based on pics and some info from various forums. Here's the preview. Would love to do that for the bazooka prospector but need someone who can give me some details.

G'Day Daniel.... gotta say I'm excited at what you've banged out there just from visual reckoning and a keyboard - truely great stuff cobber! hopefully a member can contribute the info you need to "polish" it...

casper

Thanks very much casper!
Just built the mini sluice today on my small table top cnc. I've used abs plastic for the corpus and clear plexiglas for top grizzly plate and front plate. Need to attach the grizzly mesh and Im done.

Of course if you don't have access to a laser cutter or cnc you can make it from hard foam and cut it with a knife in minutes. Or from wood and cut it with a coping saw like in school.

daniel2015 said:

Thanks very much casper!
Just built the mini sluice today on my small table top cnc. I've used abs plastic for the corpus and clear plexiglas for top grizzly plate and front plate. Need to attach the grizzly mesh and Im done.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...s/6079/1444100912_bazooka_mini_sluice_web.jpg

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that looks like it could work really well

Thanks! Will update my post with a small tutorial and the dxf file soon.

Btw. here is the PDF tutorial and the proper DXF file in case you want to give it a try and build your own mini fluid bed sluice:

diy_mini_fluid_bed_sluice.pdf
diy_mini_fluid_bed_sluice.dxf

Daniel,
You could mill these out as a kit then market them mate.
A flat pack sluice that you assemble your self.
I think I would be one of your first customers.

Thanks for the idea Tathradj,
but I think machining costs and shipping from europe wouldn't be profitable anymore. You could just buy the original one for 120,- then.
I better spend my time with sluicing and finding gold
This is just a hobby diy project for myself and I thought I share the info with others.

Very Kind of you to share mate.
Thank You.

i can probably get the neighbour to knock some out on his cnc .. would need enough people to want one to justify buying sheets of materials obviously though

@5ftfossicker for this mini model I used only 1 small sheet of 60x40cm that I had in my garage. Shouldn't be at all expensive. Ask a local with a cnc machine in town for a quote.

Is the dxf file still available for the mini bazooka sluice shown here, I used to have the file but multiple crashes and drive failures mean it's long gone I have the pdf. I need the dxf to run through a cnc router table.

I wouldn't mind the pdf and dxf files if someone has it on the computer saved somewhere. What a great little design that is. erfect:

Any idea of height of the back wall of the fluid box trap great design thanks for the post cheers Muk.

now there's someone who understands fluids.. great design!

That sump is very much like a possum belly

If nothing else at least I know know the internals of the Croc/Bazooka type units, seen them in vids and such but never really knew what was inside. Just wondering if a funnel type entrance would increase the agitation in the collection trap.
Cheers T.

Double post

Funnel doesnt change much, its more about pressure at the pipe intakes than a channeled flow through the pipes

Funnelling into the pipes also increases the amount of debris that can get caught in the pipes/exit holes.

5ftfossicker said:

i can probably get the neighbour to knock some out on his cnc .. would need enough people to want one to justify buying sheets of materials obviously though

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I will go in for one to add onto your order if they arent expensive.