Bell Plastics
Builder: builds the gear it sells
Seamless one-piece ABS sluices with a wide flange for mounting on 2x4s
Sells online or by order: no storefront to visit
Works from Hayward, California.
Builds: Sluice boxes
What they sell: Sluice boxes
Makes: One-piece ABS sluice boxes in several sizes; adjustable rock bars
What Bell Plastics builds
Made by Bell Plastics, a Hayward plastics fabrication shop making plastic parts since 1979.
ABS sluice boxes ↗
Lightweight stream sluices that are easy to trim or modify · Sluice boxes
- One piece of heavy-duty ABS with no seams; won't rust
- Several sizes
- Large outside flange for mounting on two-by-fours
- Adjustable rock bars available
How to order
- By phone, Monday to Friday, 8 to 4:30
- Not sold through the online store
Hayward plastics fabrication shop, making plastic parts since 1979, that also makes one-piece ABS sluice boxes in several sizes, with adjustable rock bars.
Around here, the land is mostly private
Within 50 miles of Hayward our maps show no open public land: the clubs and pay-to-dig sites below are the easiest legal way to put new gear to work.
Nearest open public land on our gold map: about 76 miles away.
Clubs and places nearby
- East Bay Mineral & Lapidary ClubClub · 5 mi
- Sequoia Gem & Mineral SocietyClub · 16 mi
- Livermore Valley LithophilesClub · 18 mi
- East Bay Prospectors (GPAA Concord)Club · 20 mi
- Peninsula Gem & Geology SocietyClub · 20 mi
- Bay Area MineralogistsClub · 20 mi
Other shops and gear makers nearby
- Consolidated Rock & Mineral Shop (The Rock Shop)Shop · 51 mi
- Valley Detector SalesShop · 59 mi
- Heritage Gold RushOnline shop · 76 mi
- Big Valley Metal DetectorsOnline shop · 84 mi
Access
No storefront for prospectors: sluices are ordered by phone on weekdays. Fabrication shop in Hayward.