Live. •. This is my homemade dry-washer used to concentrate desert gold bearing sand and ready it for panning. The design was taken from studying many different styles of puffer dry-washers. The pulley is a 17" round made from pine and grooved for a v-belt. It is powered by an auto heater blower 12 volt motor with a 3/8" bore X 1 1/2" drive v ...

First, the bulk of what homemade dry washers are made of is wood, so standard home wood working tools are sufficient for all but the riffle tray. I prepared some general plans for an average puffer type homemade dry washer. You can adopt and use these plans…

I think your title-"Building the Ultimate Dry Washer, A Dry Washer that equals a dredge in recovery rates" is somewhat misleading. There's simply no way you can build drywasher that will equal the recovery rate of a dredge of the time. It all depends what area you're in, what size gold if found as well the type of ground.

All Treasure Hunting. Jun 16, 2008. #5. I build "Puffers" (see pics) get motors from catalog #10-1564 12 volt $6.99, get a. 1"x5/16" pulley for the motor end and a 12" "Swamp Cooler" pulley for the crank shaft end. this will give you the proper puffing speed. do not tighten belt too tight, adjust the belt with an amp meter ...

Garrett, Whites. keene puffer drywasher, Keene A51 Sluice. Primary Interest: Other. Apr 6, 2016. #2. I used muslin for the cloth and set it at about 25 degree. Here's a vid of mine in action. Good luck and the gold seems heavier when you find it with stuff you build.

I've had many requests as to the construction of my drywasher featured on the video "QUEST FOR GOLD", so here are some close-up pics which portray the design...

Bellows puffer style drywasher plans; ... Inspired by Goldigg's excellent build and others on the forum I have decided to build an old style bellows puffer dry washer rather than a leaf blower version as I can't stand the noise of the leaf blower …

First, the bulk of what homemade dry washers are made of is wood, so standard home wood working tools are sufficient for all but the riffle tray. I prepared some general plans for an average puffer type homemade dry washer. You can adopt and use these plans, or use them as a starting point and design your own dry washer.

1 model dw2 & dw212v mini dry washer # qty description part# 1 1 conversion kit to 212v dw12c 2 1 bellows dwbel 3 1 dw hopper dwch 4 1 crankwhaft dwchs 5 1 rod & u bracket assembly dwruba 6 1 dw cloth only dwck 7 1 12 volt motor dwm 8 1 12 volt motor bearings dwmb 9 1 12 volt motor plate dwmp 10 1 electronic speed control dw212sc 11 1 pully motor drive pu2x50 # qty description part#

Hi all I been toying with the idea of finally building my own drywasher. I bought a small sampler style last year off of frank c, frank if you read that mini drywasher is really fun to use I like to try and make a larger one. the style I fell in love with was one i saw on you tube, here the link ...

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I have some photos of the dry washer on my other computer if I can retrieve them! RSJ. ... I've got plans for several puffer style drywashers and think I can use them as examples to rig up my little Wee Willie. Kajun. Quote; Link to comment ... I do not believe the plans are available for a Dowie drywasher. If you would like I can take pictures ...

A dry washer is a piece of equipment that is used to separate gold from sand with pulsations of air coming up through a porous cloth medium. This allows the gold to settle downward and get caught. It is the gold prospecting equipment of choice in dry desert areas. The vibrations and flow of air replace the function of water in the normal sluice ...

Not sure if you made your decision yet, but I had a Keene 12 volt "puffer" dry washer. It worked good, but it is heavy and setting it up is somewhat awkward. If you are going to be packing your drywasher for any distance I would get the Thompson. I …

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