Anyone make a vibrating sluice box ?

Apparently compaction is a problem. Just wondering if anyone has tried to make one and what they found.

Sorry mods maybe this should be in diy ?

Moved to DIY
Jaros

Something like this.

Hey, can you fill us in on the principal?

looks like an out of balance water wheel attached to the bottom of a sluice. Clever/simple. a bit of lost water but nothing major
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provari said:

Something like this.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11396/1539320126_001.jpg

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Very interesting :Y:

I have had it since the 1980s, never got around to using it. Was sold new from a prospecting shop in Sydney which as far as I know is long gone.

I wonder what type of riffles it uses ? Does the water run through the offset wheel and then up to the hopper ? Thanks for sending the pic, had no idea a machine like yours already existed. Closest thing I have seen is an old hose powered spin dryer washing machine contraption.

I have pinched a few fittings off it over the years, on the inlet there was a T-piece with a 1/2" outlet that had a tap on it that the small hose connected to and was used to regulate the amount of vibration. Sticker underneath the hopper gives a clue to its vintage.

I like it, unique system for a small highbanker.

You could bolt a orbital sander to the sluice box would vibrate it or a fan with quarter of a blade it off would not look pretty but would work just have to make sure you dont get them wet?cheers Muk.

Hey Provari , looks like a good unit, why didn't you ever use it?

That high banker was made by Greg Wilson the son of the owner of the shop called Prospectors home , from memory Mr Wilson started the Paramatta prospecting club which may be be the one still going today in western Sydney , I still have my high banker which has a 2 inch dredging attachment the riffles are a lazy L design and lift up with minors moss green carpet underneath a very good machine , I also have a 6 inch dredge made by Greg but have not used it for 20 years they used to buy my gold when gold was at around 600 bucks an ounce .

Eski said:

Hey Provari , looks like a good unit, why didn't you ever use it?

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Got it around the time I got my first Whites GM2, a big improvement on the Garretts I had been using at the time and detecting took precedence. Bought a pump and a heap of lay-flat hose about 10 years ago with the intention of using it, that's still in the shed unused, im getting too old now. LOL