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    DIY Battery pack

    Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your build and great instructions. I have a coiltek battery regulated battery using the same batteries in my Sd2200. But the system has a rubbish way to connect to the battery. I use a piece of cut up push bike tube like a big elastic band to hold the battery to the...
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    Blue bowl and Lego sluice, tiny gold

    Hi all, I have crushed some quartz and calcrete and some qtz with specks of gold so that it goes through a 100 mesh seive. A fine powder basically. I have a Keene blue bowl but I can not seem to separate the fine gold very well, some of it floats and yeah I do use rinse aid. The gold seems...
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    Silver/Grey Material. Platinum?

    Thanks for the info folks. I dont have any oven cleaner handy but I do have some Hcl acid 632g/L and put a squirt on one of the bits and it bubbled and reduced it to dust. So I guess it is definitely not platinum. I really appreciate your sharing of your knowledge and time ! Have a fantastic...
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    Silver/Grey Material. Platinum?

    Here it is through the 40 magnifying loupe
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    Silver/Grey Material. Platinum?

    Haha! Okay, that maybe what it is? I put all the bits photographed on a cheap-ish digital pocket scale that weighs to 0.00 grams and it was not heavy enough to register. If it was PT I would assume it would even though they are small. Is there a simple way that I can see if its AL? BTW some bits...
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    Silver/Grey Material. Platinum?

    Pen and lined paper are for scale. These were the biggest (laughing because its small ) bits the rest is 1/4 of that size and smaller.
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    Silver/Grey Material. Platinum?

    Hi all, I was out with my trusty OLD SD2200 and I got a signal in a light grey clay-ish lump about the size of a shoebox. I couldnt pin point so I took the lump of clay like material back and broke it up and panned it. It had dark brown malteeser sized nodules throughout. The brown material was...
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    maps for tab

    Im another fan of Waze . Really good road navigation app.
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