I love those mats and the silicone technique Alan! Great stuff and thanks for sharing your experience! Cheers and HH, Aaron

Great video Alan , the best one yet on making mats . Looking forward to seeing what you have in mind for the new sluice .

Great tutorial Alan. Looks like you have it all covered. Glad to see the molds are taking off. I think that the folks who try these will really like them. I know I do. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to spring.🌷

I love that you took the times to go back and compile all that information into one video. Very instructive.

This will change fine gold recovery, God bless you Alan! Great ideas!

Alan-appreciate all the info in one video. picked up a couple tips that will help. Thx for your time and effort put in. Have a Golden Day-Randy

Way to go! It's all in motion now!

God bless you Alan!

Hi Alan. Good video. Thank you

complete and easily understood. love your content/style thanks for sharing

Alan simply FANTASTIC job! way to stick it to the man by making your own molds.

nice work Allan. i really want to thank you.. Good Job. Purdy work.

i just been watching alot of gold prospecting vids and i came across your how to vids im loving the how to ones

Great information Alan! You answered a lot for me. Working on some ideas for some molds to use. But ready to start experimenting. I'm in northwest Ohio so I'll be focusing in on the really tiny stuff very very fine. Thanks for sharing buddy!

I've been working on a gold magnet since 1983. Still no luck. Guess I'll just keep doing it the hard way. Good video for us d.i.y. guys. tks😉

Wonderful lot of great ideas. Think this is you best vidio ever! Well done sir!

VERY, VERY, VERY GOOD TUTORIAL Alan!!! Thanks for the Silicone link, it really can't hurt.

Great job Alan... Greattings from Colombia

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks very informative answers a couple questions I had

Thank you for sharing!

Very interesting process thanks for sharing!

Great video is always buddy!

Very good info Alan I gota try this again. Thanks a lot Alan!!

Popular Science Magazine’s Man of the Year goes to.....Alan “Silicone” Robertson! Who knew silicone could be an art form? Another great video, Alan!

Cool stuff Alan 👍

Love you so much❤❤❤

You are an inspiration my friend great things coming soon!!!!

Love your videos i used to live in Kalispell MT. I know its cold and snow and all but i miss the most you running dirt sir. With the new matts sluice that mother lol. I know if its in the dirt you'll find more of it with the matts.

wow Alan, ask and you shall receive !!!! Again awesome video, content, channel. Thanks

Gret video keep up the good work.

Good job there fellow miner guy (Alan)......now my light bulb finally went on with several things.....how to properly use the black silicone caulking, how to join 2 mats together, and how to snug the mats to your sluice box size (accurately). Seems I can't cut a straight line anymore.....I always measure once and cut twice (lol)...anyways, thank you Alan....really enjoy your videos....keep em comin.... Bill

Awesome

Hay Alan, nice job. I've been watching and learning from you about all you do. OMG I've been freed up now and the creative juices are running rampant, thanks. Here in Oregon my wife and I just went to Cape Disappointment and picked up just 2 buckets of un-processed sand so I can fine tune my sluice, Oh my goodness only 3/4 full and they weighted in at 75 lbs each. And the black sand was 18" thick, Let me tell you that packing them made my heart race. LOL. When watching this video, you have to be kidding me, someone complains about the quality of the mats produced from the 3 d printer, I tell you what I have not seen a perfect stream bed yet. In-fact the little anomaly's Ive seen in my mats collect more gold than the perfect ones. Rooting you on, let me know if you head back to Oregon, maybe we could meet up some where.

VERY Timely Alan - thanks for the update! (I'm doing my homebrew mat tomorrow - gonna change to your frame). Going to the Cape soon - I am assuming that silicone is 'treated' just like rubber? I would appreciate if you can catch us up on you old video projects - bucket header, trommel ...etc. Thank you Sir. Doug

Genius

Thanks 👍🏿

You should probably make a new video like this once every few months !!!!! Real nice 👍🏻 ✅🍺🍀😎👍🏻

Hey Alan, thank you so much for this comprehensive video for silicone mats ! Saves a lot of time rummaging through the videos. I'm looking to make a few in the future for a 15" sluice design for a new wash plant I'm working on. Question: How do you cut the riffle figures in the plastic molds ? Are you using a router and special bits ? Thanks again for doing this. Cheers !!! 🤠⚒⛏👍👍👍

Alan, have you thought about maybe mixing your other silicone in with your black? That's if you don't like the black. It's a way to work your way through all those cases of black you have. Thanks for the video, it is always nice to watch your videos.

Thanks Alan for another awesom video. Are the plastic molds the same price? Like the alum frame for the molds.Great class on the silicon mats, I really like the splice in the sluice box.😎👌👌👍👍⛏⛏

Alan, great work. I have a Cal Sluice2. My question is will they work on my sluice.

Great Idea Alan, Which mold do you recommend for Washington beach gold, Thanks.

Great work again. How are you making the plastic molds?

For people who want perfect mats- Using a vacuum pump, similar to laying up fiberglass will remove all air and make a perfectly molded professional mat. It is pretty easy to make from an old refrigerator compressor. If you have a large pressure cooker pot which is large enough to lay on it's side then it can hold the mat width and length, you can use the pot as a vacuum chamber. Take 60 seconds of sitting in the vacuum chamber before removing it and then letting it dry and.... ta-da. Perfect.

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Sorry I didn't get to the video sooner I think we're going to have to talk about getting one of your mats on my channel in one of my videos

Awesome I'm still working out how I'm gonna make minty mold for my dredges

Alan, Question: Have you tried silicone spray lubricant spraying it on the molds to keep the silicone from sticking to the mold when making them?

My favorite part is how you made that silicone pile into a workable blob. I know what a sticky mess that stuff can be. I want to try making the silicone blob by wetting the inside a plastic bag with the soapy water, adding the teaspoon of soapy water then tube in the silicone. Work and mix it by mashing around the bag from the outside. Add more soapy water while rolling that ball around in the bag until its ready. Air doesn't get to it until you take it out of the bag and put in mold.

Awesome cobber 🍺🍺

Can it be any other type of dish soap? Or is Dawn preferred?

“Bear tested, Bear approved”! Lol

Say I'm from ilwaco and was wondering if you can make me mats for my gold cube. Thanks let me know

When did you remove the clear plastic wrap?

Wondering if ice cube trays would work as a mold

Alan, mate Im in all sorts of strife. The mat seems to be stuck in the mould. What have I done wrong? I literally cant get it out. Every solitary inch is stuff to the base board I used (a mellamine board)

Hey any chance to be able to buy the stl file so we could print our own molds ..

They make a silicon they use as a 0 perm for the out side walls of a house. Zip.. bored has fluid apply sealer its silicone but when it drys it has a chalk bored finish so you right on it I think you might like it and it's already the right color

Have you tried the ge black silicone at home depot?

How do you make it with the $25 blue bowl vortex square on ebay?

i think the rtv wont last as long as the regular kind. rtv is made to prep gaskets and i think its oil resistant. thats why it so sticky.

Alan, do u sell these molds,and how much if u do?

Have you tried the other colors of silicone? … obviously hadn’t watched the video when I asked this lol

Hello teacher

So how much of a tube is 1 cup?

Hey at least you admitted your backwards lol

Where to buy molds

Yeah this Richard Stout Kokomo Indiana I would like to have some of your patterns but I don't know how much they cost and he didn't say nothing about the cost and I will wondering if you could send me something in my email which should be on by when I get this done and I'll be there so I appreciate it if you could do that are you have a telephone number I could call you you can send that to me on the email or something please I'm really interested because I'm trying to make one up out of snow shout board cell I heard anything like it before so thank you anyway have a nice day and a Happy New Year

I wouldn't use anything other than 100℅ sylicon matt's for gold capture,,home made are the best,,but made the right way you need to spend quality time getting your designs bang on the button ,,everything black for me i love to see the shiney,, People need to wake up smell the coffee, Would you pay $300 for a dream Matt or $150 for a VDR Matt,sorry im looking for a living not to keep those gobeens in profit,,. The hell with there dream matts VDR matt's,, When i make matt's i make money the world ok over its important to size the sluice,, make the matts I n one length cuts out sticking them together all that messing around😂Makes sence, 100℅ sylicon your better buying bulk which reduces the cost, Sylicon just loves grabbing gold the reason of its magic its soft malabal its a car crash for gold i shoild know i make my own matts and make a better profit than stock markets way to go and placer gold just loves sylicon all you nebies out there get in the real world there's a gold rush on its called living😂😂 Was looking at these dream matters vdr matt's rubish id rather use,a shagpile carpet😊😅😂😂

God bless you Alan!

God bless you Alan!