Best little 12v power mini sluice

[Grumpie]

Been looking at the RDH recirculating sluice box the Cascade 12v powered sluice and mini max by Keene.

 

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[russau]

Ive seen a lot of people after buying and using any equipment make their own mods to it for their needs. SO if a person is going to be making changes , why not make your own mini and have your changes now instead of buying ($$$) and then making the changes. after all , how hard is it to bend up a sluice /hopper / stand and put what ever kind of matting /screen over it that you want in the first place. OR just buy used .

 

[Grumpie]

Ive seen a lot of people after buying and using any equipment make their own mods to it for their needs. SO if a person is going to be making changes , why not make your own mini and have your changes now instead of buying ($$$) and then making the changes. after all , how hard is it to bend up a sluice /hopper / stand and put what ever kind of matting /screen over it that you want in the first place. OR just buy used .

I'm thinking about going that route

 

[njcommercialdiver]

or buy a gold cube, i got a 4 stack with banker screen and im sold. ive run 3 buckets of material that has been thru my cleanup sluice from my last years NC trip and found more gold, all of it was in the classifier tray up top and the rest was in the 1st tray, neither of the two lower trays had any in it

 

[Hamfist]

+1 on the Gold Cube used as a highbanker. I'm not a huge fan of the topper they sell for it but the cube itself processes material as well as anything else that uses a similarly small volume of water. It also leaves a lot less concentrates than carpet and expanded. I made a G1-style hopper for mine with two open nozzles to wash the material and it works quite well.

 

[njcommercialdiver]

hamfist, can you take some pics of the hopper you made? i noticed the cube topper requires alot of "attention" but it works good

 

[Hamfist]

hamfist, can you take some pics of the hopper you made? i noticed the cube topper requires alot of "attention" but it works good

Of course. The main body of mine is a blemished hopper from California Sluice Box, whom I believe is now defunct. It's almost identical to the main body under the screen of the actual Gold Cube topper. I don't know why they covered the whole thing with punch plate when the water only hits a couple of inches of it near the top with the spray bar they use. The version I use be replicated pretty easily with aluminum, minus the drop riffles. All those do is give you a preview of what's in the cube. I do have to manually move some of the tailings off of the plate occasionally but it's only a few inches and, with an 1100 gph pump, the feed rate is slow enough to where you have time between scoops to nudge the tails off every now and then.

BTW, I only use two of my three trays when running this way. It decreases the height that the little pump has to push the water and I rarely find anything in the third tray anyway. If I pick up a 2000 GPH pump, I'll probably run the third tray.
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[njcommercialdiver]

tried to see the pic, keeps coming up as an invalid link. i think the punch plate is full length so you can scrap the big stuff right off the end. first time i saw the bottom part of the banker, i thought it looked like a MacGirk sluice or a letrap inside.

 

[Hamfist]

Hm. This should work. Sorry about that.
This was a test when I got it together. I don't run it that steep in actual use.

 

[johnedoe]

Very nice setup........

 

[njcommercialdiver]

thanks Hamfist, thats some food for thought. think ill bend up a aluminum top piece today and try your idea and i think i have a spare 2000gph pump too

 

[johnedoe]

Any progress reports on your cube modifications..... Pic please..