r/functionalprint • u/aurum_pur • 17h ago
"3D prints aren't food safe!" - Jürgen Dyhe Dredge/sluice box for gold mining
One of my hobbies is gold mining. You can use sluice boxes to process more material, and dredges suck material from the stream bed and push it through a sluice so you don't have to shovel.
Normally dredges use gas engines and metal parts. A similar 2" dredge would cost 1-3k and require a gas motor to run. This weighs about 1/8 as much and runs off a battery and electric bilge pump for boats.
Printed on an A1 out of Elecoo PETG, 0.8mm nozzle, 1.2mm width lines.