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Thanks Garrett! Nothing too special, but an upload nonetheless. Should be some good ones coming soon hopefully 🤞🏿

@@TheGoldmansChannel awesome, I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks Jeff! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Good morning mate! Thanks for watching, and dropping a question/comment. The toggle bar sits in the bottom of the moving jaw to allow the whole moving jaw free movement in a slight rotational action. Toggle bars just give it a solid point of attachment at the bottom, the top of the moving jaw is fixed solid to the centre pillow block bearings that make the jaw move in that motion. Hope that makes sense? Let me know. Cheers!

@TheGoldmansChannel thanks for replying mate do you get decent use out of the pillow blocks on the main jaw?

Pleasure mate 👍🏿. I have so far, yes. I'm not sure how many tonnes I've put through the crusher now, but there's is zero signs of wear in those 4 pillow blocks or bearings yet. I've been told there are sturdier pillow blocks available also, but I can't remember their details. So far, so good, with these ones anyway.

Cheers Gary 👍🏿

Thanks Mic! Good to be back doing a little filming. I've got a massive back log of footage from recent adventures, so buckle up! More videos to come!

Hey Tuna! Good to hear from you. You're very correct about the pricing of pre fabbed jaw crushers, they're quite expensive! I did some rough maths, and even if I had to buy a brand new GX270 with a reduction box on it, and purchase all materials brand new, I reckon the total cost would still come in at less than $2000. So those with basic skills, could absolutely save themselves a heap of money on a build like this. I may run a few beads of weld up the faces one day, it would help for sure. Just looks a little messy. Couldn't look any worse than my welding on that flywheel though, could it! 😆

@@TheGoldmansChannel hahaha if the welds hold on that machine then I think that it is fair to say that it is a good weld. 👍

So far, so good, on that part Tuna. They're ugly, but they hold haha. 😎😅

G'day Shiney! Long time, no chat, my man. I've been excellent thank you, how about you?

@@TheGoldmansChannel I've been working and getting as much gold as possible on my days off. Personally I can't complain and it wouldn't do me any good to complain. I moved to the Pacific Northwest Coast of Oregon. This place is full of gold and platinum ores. So much hasn't been discovered here yet. I am out searching for the next Big strike one weekend at a time. It was good to see you and your super chipmunk upgraded 👍

Check out the latest vid for additional info on the Jaw Crusher build mate. Hopefully that will give you the extra info you need. Cheers 👍🏿

@@TheGoldmansChannel okay thank you engineer for sincere advice

Thanks Pete, I am yes. I'm down in Vic 👍🏿👍🏿

Thanks for watching!

Our pleasure! Cheers mate 👍🏿 👌🏿

Bloody oath mate! Why buy, what we can make. Extra points for using recycled materials also 😁

Bearings have held up no problems at all Richard. I've put quite a few tonnes through the little Jaw crusher now and it's been bloody fantastic. Well and truly exceeded my expectations. I have made some minor changes to things also though. I will upload a review video of the Jaw soon, detailing changes and better ideas for others to try. Thats a good idea mate, even just a little welded plate behind the bearings each side would be very handy. That would remove the slop from the bolt holes. I have the bearings pushed all the way back towards the motor for this reason, but little positioning plates behind the bearings would be much better. 👍🏿👍🏿

G'day Jenko, you can remove the silver quite easily with some chemistry. But it does require some basic equipment. Research "Gold Inquartation" to learn the process. Inquartation is the easiest way to remove your silver, it will involve adding more silver to the mix with a melt, to bring the silver content up to around 75%. Once there is approx that amount of silver in the mix, you can easily dissolve all of the silver off in some hot dilute nitric acid. Leaving just the gold sponge behind. The silver can then also be recovered again with the addition of copper to the waste solution. The copper will replace the silver in the solution slowly, leaving you again with near pure elemental silver in your beaker.

Thank you! 😁

Thanks heaps Aug! I'd really like to see a vid of your mentioned crusher in action by the way mate. I get all my ideas, by seeing everyone elses ideas come to life. So it's always great to check out another build 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Yeah man same principle of sideways hamburger. Outer plate just all thread bolted and sandwich the pipe. Need a fill tube, maybe 2" steel pipe. I lack a welder. Have a little experience, training, but being a carpenter a welder is low priority. But now I need one damn it! ✌️✌️⛏️⛏️ right on bro! It's definitely a lifestyle

They sure do Rod! What do they tell you mate? How far from the reef are we?

@@TheGoldmansChannel spot on we expect to see more from that location cheers mate

Had that happen a few times over the years 😅. Not for a long time though, I'm careful with the positioning. Finding the perfect balance between a safe spot for it to sit, that's also close enough to the water to reduce load on the engine and in turn, save on fuel costs 😁

Walking the hills, patiently searching for that Motherlode 🤑

The eccentric is really something that will need to be manufactured by your local engineering/fabrication shop Beefer. Or if you have any friends that own a metal lathe, go visit them and draw up some designs. Bearings are about the easiest bit usually, readily available online. But if you get stuck, ask the fabrication shop to source them for you when they do the Eccentric 😁

What is the offset measure that you used on your shaft?

I went with a 10mm difference, which more or less gives me a 20mm throw. 30mm diameter either side of the 40mm centre. I would go with a 15mm difference if I did it again, giving it a 30mm throw. I wasn't confident my engine was going to deliver the power it needed at that time. But in retrospect, it would have handled it fine with the pulley ratios I'm currently using.

Sounds good I’m going to try bearings with 13mm difference I think

Sounds great Mark 👍🏿 Get into it mate 👍🏿

Thanks right back at you 😄

Still here! Just gone a bit quiet. I continually um and arr about continuing to put content out. But I'll keep it up for a while yet!

Pelican Pick, they're fantastic!

@@TheGoldmansChannel Thanks!!!!!!!

My pleasure. Thanks for taking the time to drop a comment Lawrence 😁

Thank you 😊

My pleasure Ray, thanks for leaving a comment mate 👍🏿

The SDC are a great little machine, there are a few design flaws, but there's no doubt that are a beast on the small gold.

@@TheGoldmansChannel could you let me know what to look out for plz mate cheers for the replies

The knuckles are the biggest issue. They flog out very quickly, so we ALWAYS tape up the knuckle so it's rigid and can't be twisted side to side. They only need to be adjusted vertically as you're going. The telescopic shaft also flogs out very quickly, so we tape over the cam locks and the shaft below each cam lock before use also. Keep an eye out for cracks on the top cover plate and general top area of the coil also, some recent batches of coils have been poorly constructed and are prone to cracking. This renders the detector useless under water. Extreme care should be taken under water also, as minelab only install a basic rubber grommet inside the coil where the cable enters. Some work fine forever, some leak after a few hours of use in the water, some fail quicker! If your detector suddenly becomes hypersensitive to everything around it, you've almost certainly had water enter the coil.

@@TheGoldmansChannel thanks for the helpful info mate appreciated

My pleasure Dylan. Beautiful nugget you've got in your display pic there too, by the way!

Video coming soon to hopefully put an end to this myth mate. I've been slowly aggravating people with that one over time, with the intent to clear that issue up 😁

My pleasure JDL, thank you for tuning in 😁

🤣 well I am pretty handy BigBuds, I've got 2 of them!

Red Green would approve...lol keep your head down, stick on the ice and keep plenty of the handyman's secret weapon onhand...

Is that duct tape, or zip ties? 😆

Thank you Lester 🤟🏿

It certainly is beautiful gold hey Jethro! Were only about 500m from the structure it shed from, so that's why. Seems there is another reef close by also, purity of approx 75% if I had to guess. This gold looks to be 97%+. Which is very nice colour indeed 😀

Thanks Darren! I didn't sample my fine tailings this time, no. I rarely do, to be honest. I stopped worrying about losing gold about a decade ago. Did a heap of experimentation with sluices, flow, and feed rates to establish recovery rates. The end result was clear. Gold doesn't like leaving the box. Bugger all of it even makes it into the blue miners moss, let alone coming out the end. And I always "swish" out my boxes by hand to reduce volume. Many years ago I lost a big flat flake by being a bit aggressive with my swish. But that was in a clean up sluice with 10 or so grams packed into it. Like I said, gold ain't easy to kick out of a good box 😁

I did detect over the fine and course tailings with the 5000 before I left though. You just never know when a nugget is going to pop up.

@@TheGoldmansChannel thanks for the reply mate, I realise you know what your doing! Your mat set up would rarely loose gold, and you would of tested the F out of it, I'm just envious I can't use a trommel or highbanker legally up north🤣enjoy your videos mate👌

Nsw I gather? I feel for you mate! The rules up there suck. No doubt Vic will suffer a similar fate before too long either. But I won't stop diggin' either way 😝

@@TheGoldmansChannel Queensland/NSW, qland is the pits for prospecting, can't do shit, NSW is heaven compared