Keene 2" dredge MUST modification

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:48 pm

This hole must be plugged. I never really thought about it much, but apparently they were gonna put something there but decided not to. Problem is that when water rushes around the grizzly, it also winds up pushing gold around the black mat which winds up under it and guess what's there to relieve it.....wait for it....the hole. I noticed gold close to it on clean up, but always thought maybe it got there on clean up. So I lifted it without really cleaning it and saw a flake teetering on it. Yikes. I might just hot glue the hole or something, but save your gold from getting thrust back into the loneliness.

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:06 pm

Digi,

I'm not sure about the 2" dredge, but on the 2 1/2" and up dredges, that hole has a bolt, washer, and nut and then a wingnut to hold down the grizzly/classifier/punchplate.

Here is a link to Keene's resource page and click on the PDF file "2.5" Dredge Guide" and look at page 4.

http://www.keeneeng.com/

You can go to an auto parts store and get a rubber "firewall" plug to plug the hole, if you decide to not use a bolt, washer, nut and wingnut to hold down the punchplate.

Skip

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:40 pm

Thanks, on the 2"s they have a piece of steel on the punch plate and it just rides there. Sometimes it's the little things that slip through the crack that make you go coo coo.lol

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:28 pm

Interesting!I 'think' I just found an answer to a question I asked a few weeks ago o which way the pump rotates.On that webpage it says it turns counter-clockwise.You'd think the propeller looking thing would turn clockwise like a fan blade.Guess that's the reason I don't have the patent on a dredge pump..lol..If I'm reading that wrong please let me know.I have a 2" dredge that I married to a Tecumseh motor,but it just 'looked' to me as if it were going backwards,so it's still still sittig my van,afraid to use it until I'm certain.

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:07 am

it might sound funny but I put duct tape over that hole on my dredge and it worked just fine.

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:23 pm

Doesn't sound funny to me after watching a big ass flake teetering on the edge. Shocked

THere are a few other things that I don't get about the Keene 2" but it is a really nice dredge.

Sluicer Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 39 Location: Raleigh NC

I have the 2in hibanker and the dredge, mine has ducktape on the bottom and i still filled the hole with some black rtv...Love my 2" Keene..

I have a new nozzle to try, will post it up for the test...g