Thanks GSP, to remove the water from my sludge Aluminum waste, boy that stuff is hard to sepeate the water from, this will save me alot of trouble.
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Here's a quicky sketch of the filtering thing I've been talking about. It's not very good but I think you can get the drift of it. Three buckets and a strip of cloth. Allow the cloth hanging in the bucket on the right to hang free.
You can raise the buckets on the left and make the cloth longer. In general, the longer the cloth hanging in the bucket on the right, the faster the drips. Get the cloth wet and wring it out before putting it in the bucket.
You can raise the buckets on the left and make the cloth longer. In general, the longer the cloth hanging in the bucket on the right, the faster the drips. Get the cloth wet and wring it out before putting it in the bucket.
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HAuCl4
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Very cool GSP!. 8)
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goldsilverpro said:
Genius in simplicity.
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From your responses it's easy to see that most of you are not fond of the idea of using a centrifugal filtering system, however I have forged forward turning the idea into a working prototype.
The stainless steel drum has been sand blasted then painted using a polyurethane paint, hopefully acid resistant or at best prolong the useful life of the drum.
According to the manufacture: Polyurethanes have excellent resist toward UV, acids, alkali, salts, chemicals, solvents, weathering, corrosion, fungi, and microbial. They are becoming first choice for high performance coating/paints.
This is why I have chosen Endura to paint my Massey 35 with, the paint used on the drum is leftover.
Left to do are to make a tilting stand to mount this on, then a removable top, and a spigot near the bottom for the liquids to exit. The bottom plate that the motor is mounted to is 2 inches thick and is domed on the inside allowing the liquids quick runoff.
The red silicone was used as a lubricant, installing the bottom plate it's very snug fit.
The purpose of the filter I'm building is for extracting the pregnant leach from my milled catalytic comb and bead. I do not believe that in breaking the comb into chunks or merely processing the beads whole is good enough in reclaiming all the PM's present.
Currently have 200 lbs of milled cats sitting in leech that will soon need to be filtered out.
Butts & Coxx in their book, Silver Economics, Metallurgy and Use make reference to a centrifuge filter being used to extract wash water from Silver Nitrate Crystals on pages 222/223
Apparently the use of centrifugal filters is not a new concept.
The stainless steel drum has been sand blasted then painted using a polyurethane paint, hopefully acid resistant or at best prolong the useful life of the drum.
According to the manufacture: Polyurethanes have excellent resist toward UV, acids, alkali, salts, chemicals, solvents, weathering, corrosion, fungi, and microbial. They are becoming first choice for high performance coating/paints.
This is why I have chosen Endura to paint my Massey 35 with, the paint used on the drum is leftover.
Left to do are to make a tilting stand to mount this on, then a removable top, and a spigot near the bottom for the liquids to exit. The bottom plate that the motor is mounted to is 2 inches thick and is domed on the inside allowing the liquids quick runoff.
The red silicone was used as a lubricant, installing the bottom plate it's very snug fit.
The purpose of the filter I'm building is for extracting the pregnant leach from my milled catalytic comb and bead. I do not believe that in breaking the comb into chunks or merely processing the beads whole is good enough in reclaiming all the PM's present.
Currently have 200 lbs of milled cats sitting in leech that will soon need to be filtered out.
Butts & Coxx in their book, Silver Economics, Metallurgy and Use make reference to a centrifuge filter being used to extract wash water from Silver Nitrate Crystals on pages 222/223
Apparently the use of centrifugal filters is not a new concept.
Nice work Gill!
I can't wait to see how it works, I think it will do great job for what you want.
Maybe you can do some side by side testing to see if the crushed honeycomb produces better yields and post your results.
Steve
I can't wait to see how it works, I think it will do great job for what you want.
Maybe you can do some side by side testing to see if the crushed honeycomb produces better yields and post your results.
Steve
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lazersteve said:
Steve research tell me that the beads are porous, it only makes sense that some of the wash coat is going to find it way into deep places where the acid will find it difficult to leech out the Pm's. Milling the cats exposes the metals.
Best Regards
Gill
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skippy said:
No the motor is not a smart drive which have permanent magnets in place of field coils and is of a pancake design.
The motor and drum I'm using came from a small spin extractor with a 4 kg capacity, that I salvaged from the landfill.
HAuCl4
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Impressive unit.
Pardon my ignorance, but where does the truck air filter paper fit?. Or have you changed filter medium?.
Pardon my ignorance, but where does the truck air filter paper fit?. Or have you changed filter medium?.
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HAuCl4 said:
Using filter cloth that the wife has sewn into small sacks that fit the drum.
HAuCl4
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gustavus said:
And you place those outside the red drum right?.
I was thinking that you probably need 2 drums with holes, with the cloth/filter in the middle.
qst42know
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Hello Gill.
Have you tried this filter yet?
Chris
Have you tried this filter yet?
Chris
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qst42know said:
Yes and it was a waste of time and money building the goofy filter, I'm going to use GSP's suggestion - the wick.
Best Regards
G
Would you mind sharing a bit about why your centrifuge didn't work? There are lessons in failure just like there are with successes too.
It seemed like a good concept to me, being able to centrifugally spin off the leach clinging to the ground honeycomb. I guess you'll have to see how well the wick works, but I think the centrifuge idea still may have merit, though obviously a wick has a lot going for in the simplicity department.
It seemed like a good concept to me, being able to centrifugally spin off the leach clinging to the ground honeycomb. I guess you'll have to see how well the wick works, but I think the centrifuge idea still may have merit, though obviously a wick has a lot going for in the simplicity department.
