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Congrats on the 4, and the PB. :Y:

Thanks, Mackka, got 16 more from there, the rest I had to work hard for 1.4 g

Oh, I had it heads up, its still a fiver. Sorry about that.

1st pic is 1.5 g, second 2.4.

Resizing and uploading worked so well, I thought I'd try again with today's effort. Got lucky and found a bit of a patch. Hope its still producing tomorrow :) Yes all with the 23 Dig'n- it

Don't know if this will work, trying to resize and upload a pic from my phone in the bush.

Found this Sat while testing out my crazy idea for a square handled pick. I thought it was ironic I had to break a rock open to get it :)

Yes you're right with the rubber :) Sometimes the handle wants to turn on impact, which makes the corner of the rhs bang into the base of the index finger. So I think round steel would have been better than rhs, although; unpadded, I think it would still turn too easily (steel is slippery) if it...

No I didn't preheat, TD.

Some nice looking wooden handles on the picks above. I couldn't find a decent bit of wood myself, so decided to weld on some 25 sq rhs to a piece of plough disc. It feels comfortable in the hand and offers a good grip. I'll try it out the next couple of days and see how it goes - weight, comfort...

Today I got my digital scales 30g x .001. Payed 27 bucks. Yeah I know a bit expensive, but I just couldn't stand to not know the weight of any tiny nugget I find, and I reckon if I find something over 30g, well I can afford 12 bucks or so for a 500g set. Now my mission is to wear them out :)

Great finds NeoGeo. Glad you had a great weekend :)

Thank's for the answers all, and sorry about the 'handyman' type question Condor. I started out describing how I do it at the moment, and then wondered if I was damaging the car battery. Going to see if I can get it up to 12.6 now :)

Thx Neo. Yes was great to meet you and have a chat, hope all is gong well for you. Definitely catch up out in the bush sometime :)

Thank's Scrounger, yours are some of the posts that inspired me to work harder :)

I finally got my first nugget in mid Jan 2016. Thank you to all the posters for the information on this forum, it has helped me greatly to achieve my goal. The thrill of finding the first one is something else, all the research finally paying off. I still get excited when i think about seeing it...

I'd love to tell you. But then of course, I'd have to kill you - The Doctor answering a question from Mr Holmes - "The Hound of the Baskervilles", 1901,

Don't know if this helps, but until I figure out what I want to do, I've been charging 4 x 5000 mAh batteries from my car battery, which is: 620 CCA, 120 RC, using the lighter socket. The car battery has 12.3V before starting and 12.15V when finished. Takes about 10 hours to charge the 4...

Thank's guys. I found the post by Au on the Eureka, what a lot of time that will save. Exactly the info I need at this stage, so I been reading up on that, and with the comments above from MJB I'm as keen as mustard to get out there. However, much to my displeasure I believe research is the key...

G'day everyone. After spending a while searching for info and getting nowhere I found Prospecting Australia, the site looks great, is active, members look friendly, plenty of forum info etc etc, so i joined up and here I am. I've got a Eureka Gold, and hardly used it, so this noob would like to...