Testing my First Two 3D Printed Bilge Pump Impellers. 

Cool idea and cool designs!. Hope they work as well as thought and designed. If it builds more water pressure, making the flow stronger through the hose into the Highbanker or Dredge, this could be a great benefit for us all! More efficiency out of existing pumps=happier Prospectors for sure!

Cool! At first, I was wonder what was with the kookaburras! 😂 Great build on the impellers and your attention to detail and testing is remarkable too. 🤙🏼

Real COOL man! Can't wait to see how you refine the design...A+++++!!!

Ah yes.........memories! Playing with toys in the tub. Some of us never grow up 🤣 I am watching with great interest, as I am solely running my 4 different highbankers on battery power. I remember you doing some research a while back on the claims made by some pump manufacturers about GPH. Anyhow, any increase in pressure and efficency without increased power demand is of great interest. And.......the price of lithium batteries keeps going down. I am looking at maybe a 100 Ah soon, to hopefully increase my hose length. Thanks for all your research and testing. It means a lot to many of us!

Good start so far Kyle. I'll be curious to see how your testing plays out. If you can achieve same flow but lower wattage, that's a win. If you can achieve significantly more flow for only a marginal increase in wattage then that is also a win!

Great video!! Those test were very impressive! best of luck with this project.

Very interesting, I’m enjoying your content as always.

Cool man keep it up! I wouldn't be surprised if you have a breakthrough🤙

Nice. im keen to buy an upgrade for my bilge pump when you've got it all sorted. 👍

Hey man, thanks for doing this video, when you come up with the perfect design I'm down to buy a couple! Welcome to oz!

Love it 👍 When in doubt copy a dyson impeller design 😂. Or a car turbo design. I thought the pump had its own housing shell, although it might not be the best design it saves weight on the impeller that the motor has to spin. I do remember you talked about maybe changing that design if you have to, i know you, and to get the best numbers you will have to 😂. I puchased a 1100gph design because i thought the 2000gph were to expensive. That one for under $50 is a absolute bargain 👍. I am only powering a 6" setup so 1100gph is enough for my needs.

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Awesome job I understand what you are trying to accomplish as far as coming up with ideas for ventures and that kind of things but I’m interested in what you have for output of volumes with out reducing it down at the end of your hose just a overall amount of water out of your pump by improving your impellers hope that makes sense I don’t know how to word it lol I have built most of my equipment in the past but I don’t have the equipment like the 3 D printer or anything like that and Im sure I don’t have the computer experience to do what you do I have found cominse has helped me with with what I have done so far wished I knew how to run the computer but o well at my age it’s a bit late and as you can tell my spelling is not the best I have to say that the high banker that you have built is pretty awesome you did a fantastic job on the design I really like your videos been watching got the gold fever have been up in a long time hopefully this summer been working on some ideas for building a rockchrusher been thinking of doing some gold ore keep up the great work young man and enjoy the land down under got a friend that lives there

Kyle We are lost as to your end goal . What is your step by step process you wish to follow ? give us a road map from A-B . We under stand R&D and better mouse traps . we only got showers in our house . You may want to get hold of Mark Keane in this regard for specs as Keane engineering has delved a little into underwater dredging as well as eddy pumps . Having completely underwater sluice boxes in my mind will need a lot of engineering to work as efficient as your above water sluice . The question is, is there anyone out there on the same track to collaborate with or can help you with not reinventing the wheel

what kind of 3D printer do you have? I also have a couple of Prusa MK3s+, and use them for everything possible including the gold prospecting hobby =)

Thoose birds are on the aussie gold coin

Have all that blowing gold into a short 18 inch round riffled bazooka tube and bye, bye to all those hoses, pumps and gear. You are on the right path. On your designs and intellectual property. Draft out all your designs a long with written intent of what they are designed to do. Put them into an envelope and send them to yourself registered mail. Now you have a record of when you invented what you did. When you get the envelope back store it unopened. If someone tries to rip your invention you have a legal record if needed in court.

I have no idea what you are doing - OR WHY Can you not just build a dredge or whatever it is you are building , and then simply purchase a pump that will provide the amount of flow that will run it ?