Homemade Ball Mill

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[Irons]

Parting gift? Are they coming to take you away?

 

[Barren Realms 007]

I saw that when you posted it the last time. I like that one a lot.

What is this parting gift?

 

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[pinman]

Parting gift? Are they coming to take you away?

Those of us that are mentally handicapped are very fortunate, in Canada they let us roam free.

Haha!

 

[hemicuda]

I am wondering if you could post a door picture of your ball mill,I am planning on building one as well (hopefully soon) I need to mush up some of my goodies!

Thank-you in advance,
Keith.

 

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[hemicuda]

Thanks for the pictures straight forward and to the point! I will now have to go and have a chat with my old boss he owns a scrapyard in Kamloops,and get some material from him to build a smaller version.
I will be going down to Vancouver in the spring ( Mid March or April ).....eeeeep lol there will probably be snow up there still at that time of year.
I have never actually been to the mine itself soooooo...

I do know of the Savona used mill equipment yard, I go past there at least 3 times a year,and i was actually on thier web site the other day! Yeah i do agree with you about that bridge deck up there,they actually did finish it here a while ago nicely paved and smooth now.

Are you planning on setting up your new shop this year?

 

[samuel-a]

gustavus, really nice job.

i'm thinking of building one myself .

can you tell me about the noise a machine like that produce?
it look's like somthing like this will disrupt a residential neighborhood...

 

[Barren Realms 007]

It's really not as loud as you would think. It depends on what thicknes of tank you use a thicker tank will make less noise. And if you run it barely full charge verses a small charge the crushung media will hit the barrell more and make more noise.

If it is a concern you can wrap the tank in foam as a sound dampener or you can build a box around the assembly to keep the noise contained.

 

[samuel-a]

Barren Realms 007, thank you for the info.
i taught about a foam coating, especially with regular drum which is quiet thin.

i had an idea of making a mill with no balls, but with a spinning chains in the middle at around 5K-10K rpm.
i'll finish the sckech in a few days and upload for brain storming...

 

[Noxx]

Nicely done !

 

[Barren Realms 007]

i had an idea of making a mill with no balls, but with a spinning chains in the middle at around 5K-10K rpm.
i'll finish the sckech in a few days and upload for brain storming...

You are talking around the lines of a hammer mill. Not as good of an idea as a ball mill IMHO. Your spinning chins will not have as much positive result as a ball mill. They will also create air turbulance in the drum and the smaller the particals the more they will want to float in the chamber rather than getting hit by the chains, the air will also find any small hole it can to get out ofthe tank along with your material. You will also have to make sure that the shaft and chain mecanisim is perfectly balanced, or it will toss the machine all over the place. A ball mill is easier to build, a lot less cost and mainteneance.

Imagine one of those chins coming off at 5,000 rpm. That can be a lot of force moving aound. And a chin reaction or\f the unbalancing and every thing desentagradeing.

You will have 100 times the noise volume as well.

 

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[Barren Realms 007]

Under those conditions and material I can see it's use. I was just campareing it to the material you had in the bucket and him trying to produce something like that with one. If I'm correct that hammer mill you have contains metal slabs that are mounted to the shaft. There is more control over something like that than with chins. I used a hammer mill for 4-5 yrs it had a 16 wide mouth. Man you can run some material thru something like that. Your screen choice can make you or break you.

 

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[erogers36]

i find this thread interesting, but being a newbee i'm asking myself whats the next step with the gray powder he's holding in his hands..or the process used next.

 

[samuel-a]

thank you guys for the insights about the mill.

erogers36 , i guess his powder was black IC's that ware incinirated, but as with other gold bearing components, the methodology remains the same, removing base metals before dissolving any values, therfor i belive next step is HCL leech or nitric leech.

 

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