Mate i enjoyed the heck out of this!

I appreciate DIY at low $. Great vid!

Lol awesome video man. New sub here and I’ll tell you your production value is great. Your channel will blow up!

Great job on the build.

For support try using slips from heating duct on the sides and bottom

Great video.

Loads of great info fam. Great job all around. Keep on having fun and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!

I was looking for something like this! Love that you didn’t cut out the part where the sluice fell into the bucket and how crafty you were when bending the material. I’ve seen some small short sluices for fine gold recovery online. It looked like a rain gutter, small fish pond pump and black rubber ribbing. I was going to try something like that for circulating sand I pick up while traveling but haven’t made the jump because it was almost $75! I’ll definitely be trying this but maybe with a thicker sheet metal or adding wood support on the bottom using homedepot yard sticks or other stuff.

Excellent prototype for the price! As it sits, it's definitely a good value. I like your diy metal brake for the diy sluice! And the intro had me cracking up and also nodding in agreement! Like the above comment said, great production value! Keep it up! Now my 2 cents' (which should be taken with a grain of Llano fly poop) I wonder if the matting would benefit from the fabric being looser and more porous, and if a wire brush could be used to accomplish this with what you already have? Idk how rigid the fabric is, but I imagine if its compacted pretty tightly, then then surface tension and agitation would benefit from having a more porous surface to catch more heavies on top and in between the riffles/ridges as well. Experiment with different folds and bends and you can definitely accomplish the rigidity you're wanting. Maybe using a 1/4inch lip bending outwards on all sides of the sheet metal (once cut into the size you're wanting) before bending the sides and flare would aid in that? *Edit* if you did incorporate some type of lower ridge, into the bottom or bottom edges. You could use JB water weld to seal the lip from particles settling into it, and add rigidity at the same time. I used some to bond and reinforce a header box I made and its held up awesome for two years. Either way, great build, great video! Thanks for sharing your journey with us!

Nice Job!

Love DIY Just Sluice It !!

As a recent machinist...I can appreciate what you were trying to do here. 👍

I love this and was so hoping on a $20 sluice! I like the concept. I just wonder if you add some sort of support on the bottom if that would make it less flimsy??

Dollar store ribbed carpet might surprise you with its gold capture ability. With smooth and even laminar flow (unlike the scouring flow you had), a moderate feed rate and a damper flap, the capture rate for gold is extremely good - probably 100% of the coarse gold, and 85% capture down to 200 mesh. Tip - a 12 inch wide x 36 inch length plastic boot tray is $3 from the Dollar Store and is much more rigid than that aluminum you are using. Just saw the bottom and top of the boot tray horizontally to turn it into a river sluice. Good stuff!

6 inch ribbed drain tile. Cut it in half and then you have 2 sluices.😊

Diy built America 😃✅✅✅✅

This is excellent, although we need to send ya some gold to run through it! Haha. You left us with a bit of suspense when you chose such light material for your metal, but it stayed put in the river! Well done man.

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Try a heating and air sheet metal is a little more durable and the cost is right.

Re-enforce the structure at the top with bars/etc so it would hold the form better. Don't use carpet as it's not good for this but get the proper mats. Also, I don't think you can get away with a 10 AUD version of it. Just not going to happen. I have a design in my head that I would make but am so far away from gold country isn't not funny. But I would set up three sluices that perform different functions if I could do it. First one removes the magnetics from the flow by using neodymium going across the sluice. There would be about 8 or so magnets to capture the magnetics. Yes, you could trap gold there but in order for it to trap it; it would have to have iron in it. Else it will go to the second one. Because it will add as ridges to trap small gold. You can dump sluice one into a cons bucket and go through it later. Plus it makes it easier on the second and third as you will have have to deal with the black sands. The second one will remove anything that is 1/16 in and above. Some like to capture gems as they go and it will row off and allowing the under 1/16 in to continue to the third. The third is the last chance capture of gold prior to running off. This entire system is feed by a trammel that is connected to the first one. For me this would work as I would process the raw gold into refined gold as am more interested in the refinement bit of it. The black sands at a given stage of the process would remove gold from the solution and take iron into the solution.

I definitely need a good sluice

I think you could improve the recovery with some expanded mesh over the top

Since you have more flashing, use a hole punch and make your own expanded metal to go over your mat... up the gold recovery

Maybe you could do a few more design tweaks to help with the rigidity. I’m thinking maybe single piece but double layered and some sort of hammered ribs running length ways? Maybe a less flexible light weight material in between layers? Folded edges to help hold its form? I really love the fact that you’re trying to show people that it really doesn’t take a genius, a master craftsmen or hundreds of dollars to get into the hobby of prospecting! Awesome job mate, cheers from Australia 🍻🍻🇦🇺

Not done with the video, but I was thinking of a plastic, paint roller tray with the textured shelf liner material. Wally World has, EasyLiner Select Grip 12 in. x 10 ft. Shelf Liner, Black. I would cut the end wall of the tray shorter and maybe screw some washer on bottom to give some weight.

Seems like you spent more than 10 dollars😂 Nicely done though❤🎉🎉❤

Your sluice box could work much better if you used it properly: the current is way too strong. I do not know if you are using this tool often but with that fast water flow in that amount, it is surprising that you got 40% back. I doubt your skills but trust your ingeniousness :)

Buy a piece of plywood, attach it to the bottom of the sluice

making a "$10 sluice" with equipment worth 1000$...ok...i made a wooden one to my son from old wood frame packing materials from a fridge with a hammer saw some nails and 40 yr old old moldy mat from the cellar

Did you buy the rubber back rug? Cause those aren't cheap in my area and besides the needed saw. Pretty nice build, what's your total price? Take care. ✌

My problem is the gold note the sluice lol

Buy a cheap lightweight plastic sluice from Geo Sluice Mining.

You get what you pay for.

I'm sorry, but in what universe does this add up to $10? That roll of flashing is $25. The saw, clamps, wood, etc were not free. This is much closer to $100 or more than it is $10. Thanks for the false advertising click bait title. Great idea and design. Just be more honest with the title. Maybe say, DIY Sluice box for $100 or less, instead of $10.

Nice