Blue Bowl or Panning wheel? |
Blue Bowl or Panning wheel? |
Jul 25 2010, 03:27 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 3-September 08 From: Aurora Member No.: 6,577 |
Which do you prefer for final cleanup and reasons for your preference if you please. There seems to be a love/hate relationship with both products. I have quite a few cons with good color classified to -30 and -100 and manual panning takes way too long. When you feed either a bowl or wheel does it make a difference if the material is wet or dry - does hydrophobicity become a problem with dry material? Same question would apply when running material through a sluice - do you run your raw material wet or dry? Could smaller fines ride the water right out of the sluice or cleanup device if put in dry?
I also have a cleanup sluice similar to the Tom and Perry Massie "white gutter" style, but have noticed that many of the small/tiny pieces don't get trapped in the riffles, so not sure if that style of cleanup sluice is not efficient with very fine gold or maybe I'm doing something wrong in using it. Lastly, has anyone made a homemade blue bowl? There are some plans on the 'net and some videos on youtube. Maybe it's just me, but the sellers like Keene seem to be pretty proud of those things - $70 or so for a bowl which is probably worth about $10 at most, IMO (I know - the gold recovery will pay for itself in no time). There has to be a way to build a better (and cheaper) goldtrap - Thanks - Rich |
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Jul 26 2010, 09:03 AM
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russau Group: Members Posts: 2,841 Joined: 4-December 03 From: st.louis missouri Member No.: 43 |
if you use a autofeeder on your bowl or any type of cleanup equipment, you wont need to babysit it! this way everything is consistant,and the more consistant you keep everything, the better your results will be!plus you can go do something else while its doing its thing! anyway, it works for me!
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Jul 26 2010, 09:20 AM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 4,459 Joined: 25-August 09 From: way on up thar Member No.: 6,983 |
if you use a autofeeder on your bowl or any type of cleanup equipment, you wont need to babysit it! It doesn't matter how you're feeding (in terms of babysitting)... I won't turn my back on it for a second. The babysitting has more to do with water flow than feed. Auto feeder is nice but you still need to keep an eye on things. -------------------- /l ,[____], l---L-OlllllllO- ()_) ()_)--o-)_) BLACK SANDS MATTER! Very Happy CP Lifetime Member CP CORE TEAM Referral Code CE213 |
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