DIY Gold Pump Sniping Attachment Used On Waterfall Crevices

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Hi guys, here's my latest video showing how I managed to make a sniping attachment for my manual gold pump out of bits I had lying around while away on a prospecting trip. The attachment worked great, allowing me to snipe and snuffer out material from cracks and crevices behind a waterfall as I could follow the cracks and crevices of the waterfall bedrock wall and snuff out the material with this attachment when I felt the nozzle fall into a crack/crevice.

Just goes to show what you can make with 5 minutes and a few bits lying around which can turn a piece of equipment in to a totally different material grabbing beast as there would have been no way for me to clear out these cracks and crevices without such an attachment.

I hope you like the video and if you do, check out my YouTube channel as I have made and uploaded over 25 different prospecting and recovery videos now and always subscribe to my YouTube channel as there will be regular updates to the channel when I get a chance to get out in the field and make more :)

https://youtu.be/gip11VenIik
 

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NeoTokyo

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Great video, I hope that it found you some nice gold in those cracks. :)
 

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I'm hoping so too, I put everything it collected in my con's bucket which I've still got to pan out
 

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Thanks for posting that video! Your design has me thinking about what's lying around in my garage, and how I can improve on a hand sucker tube design that currently isn't working so well.
Let us know what kind of gold you found once you pan out those cons, please.

- Brian
 

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Cheers, will do however as all my con's are mixed together from that trip, I won't know if I snuffed anything out those cracks or not, but not retrieving the material at all is certainly not going to get any gold so I hope I was lucky. It's amazing what you can put together with spare bits lying around if you have a goal or objective you want to complete, I wanted to snuff out behind the waterfall so made sure I could put something together to do the job (and it survived long enough to clean the cracks out before the bottle started collapsing due to the suction pressure)
 

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