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Can't go wrong with the Garrett, season it up and they are good, i relearned to pan again recently and the Garrett is a pleasure to use. All the best on the hunt!

G'Day all, I reckon the plastic will be fine strength wise, i had a go at printing 3 sections at a small scale to see if the concept will work and i have to make a few tolerance adjustments so everything fits snug. The small scale the circular clips need more tolerance so full scale it may be...

Nice little downpour happening at the moment in Melbourne, hopefully Daylesford is copping a bit too.

Hey Guys, Been toying with the idea of a modular sluice that can be printed, knocked up a 3D render of it - Dimensions - 200 mm Wide x 120 mm Deep x 75 mm High. I can 3D print the riffles or you could use GH matting in them. Idea is to clip together as many bits to get the desired length. Was...

Awesome mate, i wont be able to get away till 11am on Sat, but yeah loving this rain :)

Hey Goldigga, Keen for a hi bank on the weekend? Cheers!

I hear that you can get a DIY detecting kit....hehehe, bust out the soldering iron!!

Gee Goldigga, nice work, is there a style of prospecting equipment you haven't made yourself? Nice Job as always!!

Ahh yeah might just bite the bullet and get some Keene ones. Goldigga - i'll give you a buzz and maybe we can go for a banker run on the weekend - want to still do a shakedown on the spra ybar (bought a new one and went at it with a dropsaw) I think the slots are too wide now, maybe i'll have a...

Ahh ok was that the one in Mitcham?

Cheers for that, will swing by Kmart after work and take a peek.

Thanks XIV, i checked and they don't go down to 1/100 which is what i need for the Blue Bowl Concentrator, unless i'm blind of course and have missed them. Haha

Hi All, I need to pick up a set of classifiers, can anyone recommend anyone in Australia - can't really wait for Fleabay and Amazon. After up to 100 for classifying for a blue bowl. I can always MacGuyver it if anyone can suggest anything. Cheers in advance!!

Hi All, Something i have been pondering - Obviously dredging is illegal without a permit, so why isn't dredging equipment restricted for sale to those with said permit? With all these Gold shops selling what is illegal equipment for the average joe, they are sort of promoting doing the dodgey...

Ill have a design done for the clip together jobbie and a prototype piece printed by the end of the week, my only concern is the toughness of the plastic for riffles and how long they will last having rocks roll over them for extended periods. Also another benefit I thought of was we could do a...

Looks good Paul, I would turn those clamps the other way to a make a few riffles - or maybe leave the top one that way and turn the others around so you have a reverse riffle and 2 regular ones. \Cheers, V_8

Hey Ron, You guys going to the same spot as last time, we got chatting about F100's last time, I went drove by there last week and popped down for a look and the creek was bone dry :( Might stop by for a chat on the way up north. Cheers, V_8

Hi Ned, It takes spools of filament which the filament is 1.75mm diameter (looks like whipper snipper cord), it comes in 1kg rolls and you can pick it up on Amazon for around $30 per roll - I have no idea how to calculate it except weigh the part at the end and work it out by weight. That part...

Printer can only go 250 x 250 x 225 mm so it would be a pretty small sluice, unless it was designed to clip together to make a modular sluice :) - can prototype highbankers and sluices and stuff to scale, maybe make spraybar nozzles and custom fittings. Has a heap of uses, if you need something...

Yeh, that one was printed with a .01 mm layer height, and its red cause that's what I had loaded up on the printer, i can make them green or blue or whatever colour. I could give it an acetone vapour bath to remove the slight ridges, but like you say they act like mini riffles. Tested on the...