Stage one was getting the stuff delivered.
Stage 2 is extracting the silver with enzymes. Success!
Stage 3 is melting in a cupel, and sending for xrf testing
Stage 4 is extraction of all the silver powder, and concentrating it.
Stage 5 Melting all into bars,
Stage 6 Assay certification, and selling
The device you are talking about is a bridge breaker, exactly what I was talking about. They stop rat holing and bridging of material flows. My material is too soft for a stir bar to.work well. God knows how much i tried over the years.
In other news
https://x.com/i/status/2083588301941072277
This DI video popped up in my feed of a very small Marine Drill instructor and someone called him.a dyke etc.
I know exactly what I am.seeing here. It is male marine in a Male uniform.
The reason his voice sounds like that is likely vocal strain or vocal cord injury. My drill instructors had that happen often.
The final stage of my scrap plastic-to-pellet project involves ensuring that the material flows properly through the feed hopper.
I awoke in the middle of the night and realized that this is the same issue encountered with the extrusion machine. The difference is that I am now feeding the material down a 6-inch (150 mm) circular opening rather than a 2 × 3-inch (50 × 75 mm) rectangular opening.
It is the same problem, only with a differently oriented hopper.
I have therefore devised a rather unconventional solution. I will construct a bracket above the machine and suspend a probe-like device into the feed hopper, positioning it so that it terminates just above the feed rollers. The probe will be mounted on rubber to permit limited movement, and a vibrator motor will be attached to it.
When powders and flakes are subjected to vibration at appropriate frequencies, they behave like fluids. This is analogous to the principle underlying oobleck, a shear-thickening fluid.
It is Saturday morning here. I am calling an employee in to work so that I need not wait until Monday to test the arrangement.
update
Installed a mounting bracket and suspended a angle bar with the vibrator into the feed hopper. It was more reliable but still can be much better. Revising the design to try after lunch. Basically a 18 inch length of round bar suspended on a chain and the vibrator attached to that.
update. that idea worked not so mucho.
Ordered the rubber isolation mounts i use on the other machine. Put everything away, called it a weekend.
I see Filipino men wearing full face helmets on their elbow, rather than their head all the time.
I finally know why.
You dont want to put a 50 dollar helmet on a 10 cent head.
I was reading comments on X about the middle east. Dude was so clueless. Grand geopolitical expert but never been to the Gulf..
Lemme tell you one thing bout the Persian gulf. Those fuckers got more money than God.
Kuwait, the sheer numbers of mansions is unbelievable. 7 series BMW cars thrown away like hoopties. Not so much sports cars, but the place is pretty damn nice. You do not need Arabic in any of the Gulf countries.
https://streema.com/radios/Radio_Kuwait_Super_R_Kuwait_Super
Bahrain, the nightlife is another level. Spent a fraction for a night on the town as I have in NYC and LA and had a blast.
Dubai.. nice but expensive as hell.
Re fence panels. I am very familliar with hog panels. Grew up in Wisconsin. We was beekeepers, but i did farm work on the side.
Re safety guards. Wasnt installed yet. Needed to make sure it worked before buttoning it up for safety. My not so bright helper is not allowed to operate anything without guards and safety. Hard worker, but not so bright.
