Nitric
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Ok warning It's 2:30 Am, and I'm still up!
So this is just for fun!
We hear about the usual stuff that works, rocker box, sluice, etc.. Are there any never heard of or rarely talked about inventions, or big flops for gold prospecting or gold recovery? Any big equipment? How about any dumb tools you may have made that didn't work out? Or even scam devices! I was looking for very early failures, but this could be anything. Even scam devices sold for prospecting/mining over the years.
I'm sure there are, and I did a quick search, didn't really find much, so I thought I'd throw it out there.
One of my own failures, years ago, when I first started playing around......I took a 5 gallon bucket, put a leaf blower on top(brand new), And bought fittings vacuum Hose like what's used in work shops(the heavy duty stuff). Thought and thought about this thing! Had hours in figuring it all out.Making a plate that mounted to the leaf blower and bucket lid, etc... Get it all together, I'm proud I built a contraption to suck gold!! I'm the man! I have a gas portable gold wet vacuum! Who needs anything else, I'll just suck the gold and fines up!! The light stuff will just wash out the other hole and hose! Right?
Ya, I missed one very important detail! In vacuum how is the water supposed to leave out the other hose? It works! For 5 gallons of water which takes a few seconds to fill. I feel stupid even telling this story! And to this day Have no idea why I never even thought about it. I guess I was just in a hurry to build something! And I have no problem telling my mistakes! But we don't have room on the site for all of them!
On the plus side? It's not a total waste! It can be used as a dry vac.to suck gold out of cracks if I ever needed to do that. Who knows where? But I have one! I also have some other ideas of how to make it work wet, but I'll get to that some day!
So this is just for fun!We hear about the usual stuff that works, rocker box, sluice, etc.. Are there any never heard of or rarely talked about inventions, or big flops for gold prospecting or gold recovery? Any big equipment? How about any dumb tools you may have made that didn't work out? Or even scam devices! I was looking for very early failures, but this could be anything. Even scam devices sold for prospecting/mining over the years.
I'm sure there are, and I did a quick search, didn't really find much, so I thought I'd throw it out there.
One of my own failures, years ago, when I first started playing around......I took a 5 gallon bucket, put a leaf blower on top(brand new), And bought fittings vacuum Hose like what's used in work shops(the heavy duty stuff). Thought and thought about this thing! Had hours in figuring it all out.Making a plate that mounted to the leaf blower and bucket lid, etc... Get it all together, I'm proud I built a contraption to suck gold!! I'm the man! I have a gas portable gold wet vacuum! Who needs anything else, I'll just suck the gold and fines up!! The light stuff will just wash out the other hole and hose! Right?
Ya, I missed one very important detail! In vacuum how is the water supposed to leave out the other hose? It works! For 5 gallons of water which takes a few seconds to fill.
I feel stupid even telling this story! And to this day Have no idea why I never even thought about it. I guess I was just in a hurry to build something! And I have no problem telling my mistakes! But we don't have room on the site for all of them!On the plus side? It's not a total waste! It can be used as a dry vac.to suck gold out of cracks if I ever needed to do that. Who knows where? But I have one! I also have some other ideas of how to make it work wet, but I'll get to that some day!
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