Vacuum molded Micro sluice

[rosej3570]

I wanted to see if I could 3d print a mold and vacuum mold over it to make a micro sluice. Turns out I can. Not sure if they will work worth a darn, but it was fun to go through the process of making them.

 

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[mofugly13]

How much?


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[Jakel]

Cool

 

[Goldwasher]

mill some back cut riffles. Those square drops boil to much and fine gold can't settle out. The calsluice is the same and it spits out fine gold.

 

[rosej3570]

mill some back cut riffles. Those square drops boil to much and fine gold can't settle out. The calsluice is the same and it spits out fine gold.

I was wanting to do this, bit not sure how well the part will release from the mold. I'll check out the calsluice and see how it works.

Mine did get a little back cut from the pattern softening under the heat of the vacuum mold.

Thank you for the input.

 

[Goldwasher]

true I guess ir would lock on because of the riffles

 

[rosej3570]

true I guess ir would lock on because of the riffles

If I wanted to get fancy I could make it so the riffles retract at the angle of the back cut prior to the sluice coming off the mold.

 

[Hunt4gold]

Rosej - really awesome what you can produce-like the creativity. Like other's comments, try a riffle pattern with cut-back and varying extruded heights. Maybe something simple like below...

 

[russau]

I was wanting to do this, bit not sure how well the part will release from the mold. I'll check out the calsluice and see how it works.

Mine did get a little back cut from the pattern softening under the heat of the vacuum mold.

Thank you for the input.

Use a product called "mold release" to get your sluice free from the mother mold!

 

[Capt Nemo]

Russau,

I don't think mold relsase would help with back cuts, as the molded part would cover more than 180 degrees of the mother and trap it.