Great ideas, Alan. Hope for you and your family a great year🎉😊💯🤩🎊💐🇵🇷🇵🇷

Hi Alan, glad to hear you are on the mend! In my humble opinion, most people in the mineral field fail to understand the correct operation of a fluid bed. I've looked at a lot of videos on the subject of capturing gold and have not seen a correctly constructed fluid bed. A fluid bed needs to be tall with non-turbulent flows. The correct operation of a fluid bed is to pass a non-turbulent flow of fluid up through a deep bed of material in a container (or column) that is about twice as tall as the material. Ideally the diameter of the container should be significantly smaller than it is tall. The upward velocity of the fluid must only be fast enough to barely lift the lighter species to the top of the bed but not so fast as to prevent the heavier species from dropping to the bottom of the bed. The flow velocity is critical and must not be turbulent, so the material can be separated based on differential specific gravities. I suspect this is incredibly hard to do in conjunction with a fast flowing sluice. I commend your efforts to explore new and creative ways to capture more gold, especially the fine gold. Keep up the good work and great videos!

As always you always have some great ideas I really can't wait to see your next great idea keep up the good work 👍⛏️🔘🇺🇸

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I have a bunch of ideas now if i can get to them before digging season starts.

Alan you are a genius! I love it. GOD bless you

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Back to the drawing board

great work all a around fam. keep at it. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

👍👍👍

The three tubes on the hi banker and maybe slits on the yellow tray instead of holes. Keep it up your getting there!

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea! Thanks

Hi there Alan, on your High Banker thingy, replace the the "T" fitting with a long Spray Bar with smaller holes for higher pressure cleaner. I will be back to making more Deposits most likely next month. Tale care and may God continue to bless your entire family and animals!

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea. Take care. I need to email you again.

I think one valve on the center water feed would restrict the water well enough to even out the distribution and then make cones instead of small circles so the heavies will sit in the cones as well as mess with the hole sizes to get it to do what you want as far as the rock washer goes I think it just needs the water feed at the back of the scoop so it washes the material down and out instead of having to move it back and forth great ideas on both pieces you’ve got so far just needs a little tweaking thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏻👊🏻

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the ideas. Something to think about with the water going to to back of the scoop. Back to the drawing board.

Very cool Alan , I love the ideas that you put it out there , even if it didn't work as planned . You are a true engineer, you seem to have things on the go at all times. never a dull moment my friend. Cheers .

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you. Back to the drawing board for this one.

cool idea i think it will work

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

It will at some point. Thanks

Glad to hear you’re feeling better. If there is anyone who’ll figure it out, it’s you sir. Looking forward to seeing what you do with this conceptual idea.

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark. Yep I will get it.

OK Alan, let us call this an error... :-) Looking forward for next try...

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Yep I agree.

Nice Professor, May be it needs some water valves on the three tubes, that way you can adjust them to an even flow. Nice idea, glad you are better bucket master.

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip. Me to! I love making things with buckets. Got one coming up soon.

Good to hear You're getting/feeling better, might try smaller holes, & bigger to regulate the pressure... Maybe small 1st two, then a little bigger last two for center run, and larger for sides.. or valves ( or 1/2" center pipe & 3/4" sides ? ) or drilling holes away from centers ? .... I hope this adds to Your creativity and not to headaches... Lol Stay Safe and God Bless

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips! Those are all good ideas. One thing is I want to run it out in the field so the smaller the holes the more they will get plugged up.

@mrmcclung

2 жыл бұрын

A screen on pump intake, a bit smaller than the holes should solve that (and some river rock around that if You have a lot of wood debris).. Best of Luck !!!

On your banker screen use a polypropylene longitudinal grizzly to keep it slick and not plug the screen. Mesh and perforated all plug. Grizzlies of slick plastic are perfect. My first one I cut strips and drilled them putting spacers and closed it up with a zip tie through it. I even zip tied the top to the cut out square aluminum pan I used. 9x13 baking pan. Keep the end you cut off for spray bar mount splash. The plastic I found is the one they make milk jugs now. I used cuts of a thin cutting board

@alanrobertson2510

Жыл бұрын

Great idea thanks

Hi Alan! Glad you are feeling better! I've watched I think all your sapphire mining videos.. Could you maybe print a big flywheel to pulse the bed like an old school steam locomotives wheels to mimic the machine they have at the mine? Use another windshield washer motor and a big gear ratio to make it pulse? Just a thought. For the 2nd idea, there was this awesome invention called a bucket blaster that came out years ago... tee hee. I'm never letting that one go. Other than the bucket Trommel I think it had potential to do what you are thinking. You could even print a box shaped one with a claw you could raise (like gold hogs clay claw) that would hold the big chunks to break the clay balls up

@FlourgoldWizards

2 жыл бұрын

Always thinkin…..✅

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris. That is what I should build for sure. It would take some doing but probably well worth it in the long run. Sounds like a good winter project. Take care

I wonder if you could get some kinda pulsating baffles to make the water go up and down like a gem sieve cool ideal thank's for sharing Have a great day and prospect on

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Cool idea. We will see where it goes.

Need a cross current running over the top the jets are nice for the movement but a cross the box flow would clean it out for you.

Small butterfly valves to adjust water to each of the three zones for fine tuning as well as maybe a little more pump.

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

That would sure help. Thanks

Hi Allen, a tap in the centre inlet pipe, 12 volt dc pwm speed controller with percentage led display. Maybe a head plate. To push water up through holes, hitting top plate with a vortex, you need maybe feed in slots. It's an idea. Russell

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips! Good ideas.

How about a printed bazooka fluid bed with easy clean out, you could have printed riffles, printed grizzly screen with tapered hole, inlet ports for fluidizes . Fits in bucket for clean out. Maybe tie into your highbanker with a long Sluice section. Maybe yourscoop grizzly incorporated. Too much caffeine. J-Bear. Trick is water management.

You could add three valves to your inlets and adjust the flow in each zone and possibly balance it

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

That would sure help. Thanks

Your 4-Piece connector there in my opinion is little too much pressure for the center chamber because it's coming straight from your main line straight into it and whatever's accessed is going to the side try just removing the center one and using just the two sides that might help it might work better

Make a couple of the first hole, no big one, so you get it a bigger surface for the water to push the stones out

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea. Thanks

Hi Alan , maybe more holes ?

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and facing down.

I'm sure you will come up with some idea that will work.

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

I will. Thanks

Nice try good luck

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony

I would get rid of the large holes and try lots of very tiny holes.

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea for sure. Not sure where this is going to go right now.

More diffusion, larger screen area, smaller holes

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks good idea

@brainretardant

Жыл бұрын

You need to be able to valve tune each well also. Easy way would be make the base screen a threaded insert you can ground out on the bottom plenum to reduce or increase flow

I think the water needs to blow down ,to keep the bottom stirred instead of up . Blowing up seems to be wasted energy . Great first try .

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Yep I think down would be better.

Just keep tweaking on it. It will come around

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

It will. Had to start somewhere.

Did you try screens on the bottom of the fluid bed to stop the plugging? And move the inlet so it doesn't line up with the center pipe since water will take the path of least resistance. Have a great day.

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

I think some valves would help with the water flow.

Instead of the hole in the center of each deprection, how about have water come in from the sides, so each deprection would have a wirlpool and spin the paydirt?

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

That might be a interesting concept. I will keep working with it.

@brainretardant

2 жыл бұрын

I like this idea, try having the spin of each vortex next to it spin the opposite direction to reinforce eachother. Like wheels rolling on eachother. This will create a low pressure area in center of each vortex for settling

@putteslaintxtbks5166

2 жыл бұрын

@@brainretardant Yah, and I laughted out loud when I saw your tag, but maybe it should be "brainfogretardant".

@jeffbybee5207

Жыл бұрын

Like this idea also having the pay material pushed around and low energy areas to let gold collect. One of the really big problem is piping where the areas where water is moving act like a pipe attracting more flow while dead ares become cemented. Almost wonder about lots of very high pressure holes in the bottom and have a column tall enough and maybe widening so the bottom is turbulent and the lights pushed above where energy lessens can flow off while gold stays down?

The yellow thing that you made all you have to do is turn it upside down and you can use it as a shower head. LOL

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Good one.

Need a small cavity under the row of jets, what you think?

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are right.

Any further developments with this?

@alanrobertson2510

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Maybe i will play around with it again someday

investigate jigging instead - and this attempt looks nothing like actual fluid bed. Glad you made the video though

@alanrobertson2510

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks back to the drawing board.