Another micro sluice in
the making. This project started
because of a need for speed when setting up to run a
small
amounts of concentrates. Sometimes there's just to much
to pan but not enough to set up the Gold Gal 2
system.
So this small sluice
will be ready on call all hooked up in
its tub ready to serve at all times. Just remove
Bat and
sluice from tub set sluice on tub and bucket pour in
three
gallons of water and start feeding.
Got it all hooked up and
operatting here but thought this
is nice but.......... what if i add a new way to
automaticaly
feed it. Something smooth feeding that works on its own.
After all classifying and smooth constant feeding will
get
the most gold out of a batch of material every time.
Plans for this little sluicebox
So I came up with the
bird house feeder, this thing really
works great!
Its simply a plastic
coke bottle with the bottom cut out.
It sets down in the hole on the board and dribbles dirt
and sand into the sluice at a constant rate. It falls,
hits a
deflector that spreads the material evenly across the
sluice.
The material to run must be dry and prescreened ahead of
time. The bottle cap has a adjusted hole in it sized to
work
with whatever size material you have prescreened. It
then
flows like the sands in a hour glass nice and slow
catching
all that good gold.