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They use to let you dip your fingers in the stuff in high-school science class back in the old days. Seriously 0000.1 of a gram of mercury vapor ain't going to hurt you. I'd still avoid breathing it in when burning it off though. :P

Yep exactly. You can give your wiper motor variable speed :) only downside like I said it will draw alot of power and nowhere near the torque of a geared motor. How you going to have it set up direct drive, belt & pulleys or chain and sprocket...??

Mate, you can put a variable speed switch on ANY dc motor... You could grab one off ebay or just goto jaycar. That way you would have fully adjustable speed instead of just fast and slow. Also wiper motors draw abit of power. I'd recommend taking a look at some geared 12v motors on ebay. I...

Ah why did they have to go an make it TOS...LAME Should have continued Nextgen or voyager or even enterprise. Anything but TOS, heck I woulda even preferred they did deep space nine... :mad:

Welcome yellowfever :)

Welcome Matt :) I'm building a walbanker too from what I hear you won't be disappointed :)

Welcome dave :D

That's a nice bit of gear elbowgreese I like that idea... Like you said best of both worlds :) And no marked but ur half right. The banjo is a type of 2 tier highbanker. These analogy's may help. All banjos are tiered highbankers but not all tiered highbankers are banjos. All thumbs are fingers...

Ahhh Thankyou phill & mbasko yeah that's the machine I am talking about. Thanks for that link mbasko that explains it well. you other guys if you read my first post where I said I'm thinking of building a highbanker, you may have been able to put 2 and 2 together and worked out I wasent trying...

Phill, would love to hear how it goes when your finished. That removable catch tray idea is what attracted me to the "banjo" design. I'd imagine it would reduce your cons greatly. :) Also I found the spray bar design intresting.

Ahhh..thanks for the advise everyone...:) The "banjo" I'm referring to is a homemade highbanker design I've seen plans for on another forum. I think the guy who made the plans calls it a banjo. Anyway so I've decided I'm going to build a walbanker as it is well an truly proven to be a good unit...

Thanx for the advise braddo. I can't seem to find anything on YouTube or anything Showing the performance of the banjo. But plenty of good info regarding the walbanker, great YouTube vids :) and heaps people saying they are the way to go. But I'd still love to hear from someone who has at least...

hey guys so ive decided i need a highbanker / sluice and want to build one myself as im fairly handy when it come to building stuff. so i have been doing plenty of reading on here and other places online and have narrowed my choice down to either a walbanker from the plans and specs on here and...

Ok thanks for the heads up redmanti :) so I'd be more likely to run into other prospectors at oallen? Ill be sure to ask if they are forum members before taking any advise. Don't want to get a bum steer. Lol

Wow very nice:) where you just panning or did you use a highbanker..?

Thanks for the welcomes guys :) Thanks for the advise on queanbeyan river wal:) I'm gunna have to check it out, can't wait to get my first bit of the yellow stuff :) I was thinking of giving the area below warri bridge on the shoalhaven river a try or possibly oallen ford. :)

G'day I'm from queanbeyan and have been watching some of wal n liz's YouTube videos and have caught the gold bug. I've been teaching myself how to pan in the back yard with some small pieces of lead and abit of sand. I'm starting to get the hang of it, anyway looking forward to learning as much...