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my first attempt at making a sluice need some advice
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<blockquote data-quote="TenOunce Tone" data-source="post: 12052" data-attributes="member: 288"><p>Hi Scott, I like you have had a crack at building a sluice, have a look at the tips I received from the brains trust on my post here <a href="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1190" target="_blank">https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1190</a> looking at the "v" riffles, you need to have the slope facing the water flow, kinda like this ( Water flow -->) (Riffle. /) ---> / -->/ ... the gap should be big enough to allow the movement of rocks to flow through the sluice between 45 and 15 seconds, if the water flow is impeeded too much it will fill up with gravels...</p><p></p><p>If you have more of the mesh material, I would use that along the whole length of the sluice or see if you can get your hands on some expanded metal or "walkway mesh" From what i have seen on utube and advice on the forum is that you need to get the material a consistent size so use a classifier or screen or some sort, 1/4 to 1/2 inch seems to work best for most.</p><p></p><p>Thats my 2 bobs worth, good luck with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TenOunce Tone, post: 12052, member: 288"] Hi Scott, I like you have had a crack at building a sluice, have a look at the tips I received from the brains trust on my post here [url]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1190[/url] looking at the "v" riffles, you need to have the slope facing the water flow, kinda like this ( Water flow -->) (Riffle. /) ---> / -->/ ... the gap should be big enough to allow the movement of rocks to flow through the sluice between 45 and 15 seconds, if the water flow is impeeded too much it will fill up with gravels... If you have more of the mesh material, I would use that along the whole length of the sluice or see if you can get your hands on some expanded metal or "walkway mesh" From what i have seen on utube and advice on the forum is that you need to get the material a consistent size so use a classifier or screen or some sort, 1/4 to 1/2 inch seems to work best for most. Thats my 2 bobs worth, good luck with it. [/QUOTE]
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