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Trommel - mini wash plant
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<blockquote data-quote="1968falconxt" data-source="post: 458365" data-attributes="member: 11897"><p>As good as the gold fox looks, I was very disappointed. I was lucky to try before buying.</p><p></p><p>The gold fox hopper is essentially a laundry basin with a tap in the corner. It just fills up with water and you have to massage the mud and rocks with your bare hands before they even start working their way though and into the trommel barrel. The rocks then need to be stuffed into the barrel by hand. </p><p></p><p>To get material through the unit, such a steep angle was required causing the material to race through the barrel, barely getting washed by the external spray bars. The company has tried slowing the material down with a half moon baffle at the end of the barrel. It doesn't act like a trommel at all. I thought I just had a bad experience but all the videos on youtube show the same thing. </p><p></p><p>I think it was a 5" trommel. I designed mine to be 6". If I was to design it all again I may have gone 8". But hopefully I will soon find out if the 6" is big enough to get a decent tumbling action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1968falconxt, post: 458365, member: 11897"] As good as the gold fox looks, I was very disappointed. I was lucky to try before buying. The gold fox hopper is essentially a laundry basin with a tap in the corner. It just fills up with water and you have to massage the mud and rocks with your bare hands before they even start working their way though and into the trommel barrel. The rocks then need to be stuffed into the barrel by hand. To get material through the unit, such a steep angle was required causing the material to race through the barrel, barely getting washed by the external spray bars. The company has tried slowing the material down with a half moon baffle at the end of the barrel. It doesn't act like a trommel at all. I thought I just had a bad experience but all the videos on youtube show the same thing. I think it was a 5" trommel. I designed mine to be 6". If I was to design it all again I may have gone 8". But hopefully I will soon find out if the 6" is big enough to get a decent tumbling action. [/QUOTE]
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