Thank you Louis.

Thank you for the order and you are welcome for the how to. Good luck with the mats you are going to love them.

Thank you. Good luck with all your projects.

Alan Robertson Thanks. Getting too many to try and keep up with.😄

Thank you.

@@alanrobertson2510 your welcome

It made all the difference in the wold.

You are welcome. I think it is great now with the silicone mats if you can think it up you can make a mat. Thanks for watching.

Thank you Allan. This sure has been a fun project I could have bought 10 sets of mats for what I have put into this in the long run I think I will catch a lot more gold with the silicone mats. Thanks so much for watching.

We think just alike.

Thank you I am glad the video help you out good luck with your project.

Thanks for letting me know that colored DAP will work I will have to give it a try. When I tried colored chalk it was GE and I had nothing but a mess and ruined the mold so I never tried again. Good luck with the mats.

It sure does good luck on the giveaway.

Thanks Larry

Good luck.

You're welcome!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good luck. You will do great for the molds you have it will probably take a tube and a half If I get to make my mat before you do I will let you know how much silicone it takes as you can see you don't want to come up short.

@@alanrobertson2510 I will wait not by choice. One of our claims has someone open up the bank for about 60'. I need to get a crew and repair before the FS sees it.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏

@@CandSMINING OH man that stinks that someone would do that. It is work day for us to at our club claim this weekend.

Thank you The mats are turning out great now.

Me to.

Hey good luck let me know what days you are going up.

Thank you.

Thanks Raymond the mats are working out well.

Thanks It's probably good there is no more of me. I sure have been having fun.

Thanks for the tip I will have to try it out.

@@alanrobertson2510 Another tip for mixing the silicone and paint/color is to put a wood dowel in a hand drill. The swirling motion seems to knead the color into the silicone a lot like how it is done at factories with rollers. Result is a lot less air bubbles and not as tiring on the hand as using a stir stick.

@@1kreature Thanks I will give it a try I need to make some new mats for a new project.

Good idea but I have gone to a aluminum frame that the silicone doesn't stick to.

Thank you for watching. I am not sure how I would make the video in Spanish.

Thank you

Hi Matthew That idea keeps coming up I guess I am going to have to give it a try. The gold might be hard to suck up off the mat we shall see.

Yes I do. I usually use the soap and water mixture for the day and then throw it out. Thanks for watching.

You are in.

So right now I make the main sluice mold the hi low v mold the drop riffle v mold and the U mold for making the mats two sided to catch the fine gold. My friends name I think you are referring to is Bruce.

Hello I have never tried flex seal before. Many people have thought about it but I have never heard of anyone actually try it. The cost is the big reason. The gold sticks to the silicone not sure about flex seal.

so before the printer I used Legos, also used clay with dimes. I did like the leos as the gold would stick in the holes.

I have never tried that. I would think you would need a ton of food coloring. If you decide to try it let me know how it goes.

Not that I have had. If some one is worried about the seem they could glue two molds together to make it seamless or I do have some 10 inch mold now.

What to do with the gold after you find it. Keep it. All of it it will be worth more than money someday.

Thanks...I figured, but wasn’t sure if I were to sell it....but I have to find it first! 😄

Cold water hot water makes the silicone setup to fast.

Hi Peter I can't post a image on here if you want to send me a email I can send you a picture. You might want to try and make up a strong mix of soap and water and squirt in a small amount of silicone and wait and see if it hardens if it doesn't it is either the silicone or the soap. My email moldsandmats@gmail.com

@@alanrobertson2510 pwdavonplumbing@bigpond.com Thanks for the Reply Alan. I am going to have another try, just wanted to see whats in your soap. Will do the test with a few different soap mixtures to get my head around how much soap. (I think maybe not enough soap) If I can match the soap ingredients I think I will be right. As for the silicone its 100% neutral cure or should I be using acidic cure? Is it ok to use a rubber mat as the mould? And should I put soap mixture on the mat before I put the silicone in? (Thinking it would help with release) Thank you again for your time. I will let you know how I go next time.

@@Free_Aussie There is your problem the silicone needs to be the acidic type.

Hi Alan, All good with my 3rd try. Got the silicone and the soap correct. Thank you for your time & advise.

No I have not tried the silicone spay I have tried some other methods other than the water and soap mixture and they mostly tuned out to be a mess.

Ok, you doing a great job. Thanks!

Sorry about that I sold out and had some bad filament just waiting for a new shipment and should be back up and running in a few days.

No it is not to soft I have been running silicone mats for a year and a half now. The silicone has to be 100% silicone moisture cure I get mine from Silicone Depot now in black or clear.

@@alanrobertson2510 thank you

Thanks I was going to do that just thought it might be confusing to some.

Good question I ran the same mats all summer and show no signs of were at all. I would guess I ran about 10 yards of material over the mats. That what I know.

Alan Robertson thanks for the reply and the info

You will have some air bubbles in the mats. Try and need the silicone like bread dough in the the water that seems to help the warm water will make the silicone set up fast.

@@alanrobertson2510 ok thank you. Gold pan chuck, from kooskia idaho.

@@chuckbyers7670 Hi Chuck The other way to make the mats without the air bubbles is to squirt the silicone directly in to the water mix this will work with the black silicone from silicone depot as there is no way to mix in food coloring to color the mats. Good luck and let me know how it goes.

I make these molds with my 3D printer I have several videos on how to make your own molds.

Thanks mate, But if you know or have any other video to make the dream mat, or any other mat locally at home do share bro

I have not tried it but I have seen others use it in other videos. Good luck.

John R. Hi John, yes I have used it and it works pretty well. They only put 9 oz in their tubes instead of the 10 oz's everyone else does.

utahavalanch thanks...I enjoy your videos as well, especially the diy super sucker out of pvc pipe!

John R. Thanks John. That is my adult Lego toy. 😝 I have tooo many attachments for it and I'll be making a video here shortly on a crevicing attachment for one of my subscribers. Just came in from making another Silicone mat with some GE Silicone. Stuff sets up fast.

You are welcome. So glad you are getting the hang of making the mats. I am sure you will love them when you are done I just ran some beach sand on mine today and the results look amazing so far. Sure you can email me let me give you my email in a separate reply that I can erase when you email me. Talk to you soon.

@@alanrobertson2510 Okay,Thank you Sir, that's why I mention that I could email you thru ebay with my purchase with ask a question section. I wish that I had some gold to try out the mats with, was planning on getting out but my only truck and only vehicle that I have now it blew the head gasket and will not get out of the shop until sometime after the 9th. So this year is going to be really short for me, as I also got a hard rock rose quartz/amethyst/gold claim that I am working with the forest service and waiting for the district Ranger to sign my plan of operations and mail me back the paperwork. It's all done and he said he was going to sign it so I should see something in the mail sometime next week, as my bond has been paid and that was the only thing that they needed from me to finish with all the paperwork, and then I will be ready to start mining at my mining claim then.

Yes I am they are on E Bay search for sluice box matting mold as you should find them no problem.

@@alanrobertson2510 I looked and could not find them, Typed in exactly what you said.

@@hannahkost2007 This will get you There www.ebay.com/usr/fishingbigsky_0 Please let me know if you get this.