Fluid bed sluice plan

[Goodyguy]

speaking of fluid bed highbankers....didn't you build one GG? How well does it work? Basic design?

I have built a few. The first one was an adaptation to my diy zooka where I simply used the hopper off my keene highbanker and fabbed a manifold to supply the trap tubes. The hopper was great because of the spray bars and the 1/2" grizzly built in for pre-classifying. (not that pre-classifying is necessary)

It worked better than being in the creek because I could control the flow to both the top deck and the tubes separately by use of valves making each flow fine tune-able.

Was also easy to test for any necessary tweaks or mods to the trap during development by placing a tub at the end of the sluice to check the tailings for any color.



Others I built were for specific duty and I designed them from the ground up.


Go for the Gold
GG~

 

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[goldog]

Nice HB. I took the leap today. Ordered two sheets of 3/32. I'll p/u a sheet of 1/4" and some "glue" and I'm on my way.

 

[goldog]

The zooka clone build has begun. .

if you look close it is glowing. It's 40" of heating area. So that's the max length for now.

 

[Sockeye1730]

I'm dying to try mine, but we are supposed to get 2 feet of snow this week....argh!