Prospecting with a CLEAR SLUICE!

Published 2024-06-29
Had a crazy idea to make a sluice out of poly carb (clear acrylic). Could watch it run all day.
Enjoy the video!

All Comments (18)
  • @AEVMU
    Awesome! PLEASE do this with a clear regularly shaped pan, so we can see just how fast the gold drops to the bottom. I have a feeling the gold drops to the bottom much faster than most people realize and that they are over stratifying and wasting time. A clear pan will settle this!
  • @uzihuzar2235
    Great vid just started gold prospecting too. hope too see more. Subscribed!!!
  • AUsome video. Love the shot of materials running down the box, watching everything exchange! Heavy Pans!!!
  • You can polish out the opaque machined sections of your sluice using a few different methods. The easiest is Flame Polishing where you use a propane torch held at a distance to heat and partially melt the polycarbonate. It turns it back clear, but can be a little bit tricky to learn as your first use it. It is easy to burn the poly, so practice is required. Another method is to use a acetone and MEK (methyl ethyl ketone) vapor chamber. It's really just a box with a container of acetone and MEK mixed together. It creates a vapor that partially melts the poly and turns it clear. Pretty effective and has great results.
  • @gnomespace
    If I may borrow one of your terms, crackin mate! (or something like that)
  • @MadDogTor_
    Polycarbonate is stronger than acrylic btw, although both are carbon based polymers. Not the same thing. Awesome idea! I like how you can see what's happening in the sluice. Very cool.
  • gold is about $3,400 per ounce so well worth it = may be more in 3 months with the wars going on ? gool luck snuffer bottles work well !
  • @polyguns
    I wonder if you had it coated in clear silicone if it would get more fines?