I have made a lot of improvements in the processes of making the mats since this video. Here is a more detailed video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qN9_oJOc2b_UZ2w.html

Thank you Alan for your breaking into new frontier and having great results. Amazing how fast it takes a set. Got to try this.

That is a neat way to work with silicone. Thanks again.

Excellent video. Full of time & dollar saving ideas. The speed of the setting silicone from mild pour to release is incredible. I like the simplicity of the mould: imagination, timber & a saw. Thank you for putting in the hard yards of experimental work and then magnanimously sharing with us. Top job. Cheers from Michael. Australia.

:) I lined mine with an old heavy duty rubber car mat out of my van. It's probably a bit too chunky, but hey, it was just sitting in the shed, may as well use it. :)

Thank you for sharing your research!!!

Once again you are a mad genius great video can't wait to see how they work. Have a great day and prospect on.

I love they way that you are always innovating and thinking outside of the box! Keep it up man!

I really LOVE the idea. I love experimenting new stuff to get more GOLD

Excellent video, I wish the plastic molds were more affordable, guess I will need to make some of these

I haven't tried making molds using silicone before. Thanks for showing what's involved ! I hope it doesn't stink so much once it's in the water and dish soap. The smell of it has deterred me from wanting to use it much in the past.

Excellent!! Of course gonna work!Its soffter than rubber,it will STOP heavies.This idea opens the way to all kind of mats,just like you like or need.Ja js.frenchs spending money in technology with 3D printed mats,you can do even dream mats like this way.Congratulations,you should be prized.Thanks fir share,this will work for All !

That is looking interesting Alan. I'm looking forward to how they work out. You don't have to fill the sluice box all the way. That much should work very well. Yippers, it's looking like Tube sand time is coming. I'm trying to stockpile a little panning sand for the winter myself.

You are an absolute legend :) watched your vid this morn, made a new Lego mat for my little 10 inch backpack sluice at lunch; had my best flour gold clean-up ever this afternoon! Only got 3 colour in the pan after the sluice, 50+ colour in the mat. Even saw gold in the mat. Never have I seen gold in the mat before. Thanks for the best idea ever :):):)

Mr Robinson,,your a genious,,i cant wait to see the resalt,that what old men do think about beating the sistem,,this is what i do,my time on the pillow,sometime it drive me in seine,,keep up on the invention,,,thank you,this is the best so far

Another great video Alan. Keep them coming

Making your patterns looks like a perfect application for a 3D printer.

Very interesting idea! I can't wait to see how it works out.

Easy, cheap and working (later video if you come upon this first). Awesome DIY!

Great idea love watching your videos I like to make all my own stuff as well and get great idea from you and thank you for that can't wait to see how they work

use a old stand mixer or bread machine to do the cornstarch version or bend apiece of re-bar into a hook and chuck it in your drill to do the mixing

Alan I doubt you will ever see this post. I live in Panama and made a Blue Bowl mat following your instruction except on the 1st try I didn´t. I used "White" like a dumb ass, not good but funny. At any rate I have made 2 beautiful mats....SOoooo....THANK YOU !! One is for the more than goofy guy I hang out with while gathering beach gold. He is always whining, carping and complaining about his Blue Bowl and how he wished he could get his hands on a silicone mat. When I gave it to him I thought he was going to cry. He´s such a silly shit.

Pretty smart.

Hello Alan, Just found out we have a mutual acquaintence in Clint B. I will be heading back down to Tucson to sell Kettle Korn at his event in less than two weeks. Currently we are in Helena working on a project here. Small world. :-)

Im trying this out today.

Cant wait to try it after your mold video comes out!

Enjoying your videos, I've a suggestion, don't know if anyone else has offered it. Make your mix with the silicone in dawn then take out and roll in/knead in cornstarch to add that toughness you like but will still be easy to work with. keep wetting hands in the dawn solution as you go. Also oil the tray for easier release, with lard or shortening.

Cool grate job

what a great idea.....good one man the lego one is my fav.....very cool idea!!

you smart good job

Good job

HI ALAN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK LOOKS GREAT

You could use the silicon mats as a mold for flex seal or another liquid nobber and make your own rubber mats too.

So cool how that dries so fast... And they should last a few years also.. I wonder how that rubberized texture spray paint would work on wood

really neat idea!

I too have tried the cornstarch mold making, oh my Lord what a mess... and you're right it is a nice stiff consistency.... but too hard to work with!

Another out-of-the-box idea! Awesome. I enjoy your videos. If you want some help building some more accurate molds I have a pretty decent wood shop with a router table and a regular router as well. I'm over in Anaconda and it's going to be a long winter!

Good idea

Well that's using yur noggin! Looks like an interesting way to experiment with various designs of your own imagination.

The firmness of the cornflower mix might be better if you can figure out a way of manipulating it without tooo much mess! Good on ya Alan! Looking forward to seeing you testing these matts ;-)

Yet again, I'm out done......Good Video.

Awesome man!! I'm gonna have to try this one!

Probably be cheaper and easier to use a cheap dollar store furnace hepa filter as a mould for the silicone

you are a clever man

luv it I learned a lot just watching that vid ..

Sprinkling baby powder down first would probably ease the removal

I learned the hard way, but you can use clear, white or black as long as it is #1 NOT #2 number 2 will not set up. The number on the tube is so small you can barely find it. 👍

Great idea. Thx CR

Hmmm I like the way you think.

I knew that would work . I was going to try flex seal but that stuff is expensive.

Awesome Idea🤓

So tell me Allan are your inventions related to feeding the gold fever over the long winter? I find the winter shut down saddens me and leaves me burning up with the fever😲 ! Thanks for filling the void☺

Very good idea. Maybe overkill from my end but if you make like a 3 inch wide plexiglass sluice you can visually see the different exchange rates of each type you mold. Run some washed material for the experiments of course.

Ha ha ha... that is the most yucky stuff to work with, but i love your solution using water and dish soap. that works beautifully. Man, you come up with the most incredible concepts. just keep on keeping on. really enjoy your vids

use mold then instead of silicone, use polyurethane instead. works great and much for solid but fexible.

Awesome you should try to make them out of the as seen on tv stuff flex seal great job

Try sealing the mold with lacquer then use Pam cooking spray as a mold release. Should make it let go cleaner.

I'm so glad i found you... i was just fixing to make some silicone mats and hadn't heard of anyone doing it before. I wonder if some of that flexible spray rubberized paint stuff could change the color of the silicone after the mat is made? make it a bit easier to see the gold?

Great idea, only question I have is durability. As far as catching gold, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Pure genius man👍✌ have you ever tried using rubber car floor mats?

So cool

Brilliant mind you have

So the 50:50 mix is Dawn: water by volume & if too tacky more Dawn, & if it won't ball together more water.

Would food coloring work to get the desired color and would a spray can of canola oil work to release the mold? Thanks again.

I saw the Lego matting in another video and a couple comments about that, I want to try that... Did you use the regular size, duplo's, or both? Did you cut them at an angle to make riffles too or just different heights? I have potential for fine flour gold in a creek with lots of other minerals. Awesome idea by the way, I'm new to prospecting and $100's of dollars to start is excessive if I don't even know if I like it.. old timers used a lot of scrap from what it looks like, and did good.

Think its perfect for rocker box,or slow water sluice,or amix of both,because stays flexible so produces bouncing and vibrations,going to sleep now thinking about this Thanks again!

100% silicone can still be many types using alkoxy, acetoxy, ester, enoxy or oxime type silanes in the curing. Apparently they can all be accelerated with moisture but I have had different luck with that. The one that smells like vinegar when curing is acetoxy type. I think fishtank marine silicone is alkoxy. The former releases acid while curing the other alcohol.

Hi Alan I am having a really difficult time getting the silicone to nead into any kind of a ball. I have tried cheap silicone @ $8 a tube to $12 a tube GE Pro II all being 100% silicone. I am using Dawn dish detergent mixed half and half. The silicone won't mix at all, it just squeezes through my fingers but doesn't stick to them at all. I tried adding more dawn but it didn't help. I used a fine screened siv to drain off the liquid and still wouldn't work. So i figured I'd try anyway. Well the results have been that it will work in the mold (set up in 10-15mins ) but the bottoms look like cottage cheese but the top is fine. It just seems impossible to roll flat and so I smoothed them with my hand but the result is far from perfect. Any help from you or any of your subs that might have an answer would be very much appreciated.

So if you have leftover silicone could you put that back into the water/dawn mix to keep it from curing so that it could be used later on?

Blue bowl matt

How make the patrón?

Cost effective way , hope it works I'm not a fan of the , green grass mat . That comes with older slucebox.

Could you use a fibreglass resin? Seems pretty cheap but no idea about strength and only costs around $20 to $30 a Kilo or 2.2lbs

Pioneer pauly uses artificial grass ...it’s great For flour gold in his area

Using GE 100% SILICONE, Dawn dish soap, warm water. 72 degree in the house, silicone will not set up. It stays sticky and gooey. Any suggestions 🤔

question.. you said 50% water and 50% dawn. How much of that is it. Do you have an ounce measurement? Cannot tell from the bowl you have there. Thanks.

Hello,if i cherche the gold in the river of morocco,what u think i can find somme think!!!!please i wish some one answer me...

I wonder how liquid nail would work

are you sticking them together with the same silicon calk?

Are they stiff enough for faster water or are you thinking slower moving water for fine gold?

I made my first mat for my dredge today.... it came out great. If you like the video is up on my channel. I don't have any prospecting friends so it will never get out to anyone who matters lol but i think i got it down to an easy process... Thanks again Alan....

Hi Alan. So im fixin to start my silicone mat adventure and remember you saying in this video that black colored calk doesnt work? i found an ebay seller selling 100% silicone in white for 3 buck a tube with shipping. Im going to try it out but thought id pass it along. its about the cheapest ive been able to find so far. what do you think?

If it possible to make a mold with this Technic on a rubber mat with out damage the rubber mat I want to do a copy of Keene miracle mat if it possible

Do you use any mould release agent?

When I've used Silicone after it has cured it won't let anything stick to it . How do you glue the sections to each other? Did I miss something?

How in the world did that stuff dry so fast. Dang 15 minutes? Shoot that stuff usually takes hours to dry

What about trying food coloring?

How come it only takes 15mins to dry? I thought silicone takes 24 hours

what brand of silicone you use

Vary clvear

Just melt aluminium

Это не ковры, а пи#дец во весь профиль. Затрахаетесь на смыве, а за уловистость вобще умолчу. Уж лучше махровым полотенцем застелить шлюз. Уважение только к голове, которая занята поиском решения. Всё гораздо проще.

Flex seal.

brilliant mate. DIY marital aids and breast implants be another use

Hello Master

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It is caulk not chalk good idea