Squishy
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- Jul 18, 2009
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Hello all!
I picked up some rocks that my detector indicates have some gold in them. I need to crush them to see if there is really anything in there. I found an example of a hand ore crusher on the internet and decided to try to make my own.
This will work kind of like a butter churn. I'll weld the base plate under the pipe and then I'll weld the big piece of bar stock onto the 1 1/4 inch steel rod to make the hammer portion.
If it works, I should be able to put rocks in the pipe and hammer them to dust... "making little ones out of big ones" Ha Ha!
Here are the parts
This is the hammer part. It fits inside the pipe.
I'll weld the pipe to the base like this.
I'll weld the hammer part to the steel rod.
Should be able to get it done this weekend. Will be interesting to see if it works!
-Mike-
I picked up some rocks that my detector indicates have some gold in them. I need to crush them to see if there is really anything in there. I found an example of a hand ore crusher on the internet and decided to try to make my own.
This will work kind of like a butter churn. I'll weld the base plate under the pipe and then I'll weld the big piece of bar stock onto the 1 1/4 inch steel rod to make the hammer portion.
If it works, I should be able to put rocks in the pipe and hammer them to dust... "making little ones out of big ones" Ha Ha!
Here are the parts
This is the hammer part. It fits inside the pipe.
I'll weld the pipe to the base like this.
I'll weld the hammer part to the steel rod.
Should be able to get it done this weekend. Will be interesting to see if it works!
-Mike-