Asteroid Mining Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Asteroid Mining
# 2489 byspace.action@... on Sept. 30, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
Around the drill just above its head you have a rotating cylinder with
a screw-like groove inside. This acts as a virtual "vacuum" drawing
the material to the chute/bag/holding area and this also helps to
reduce waste acting as a sort of tent keeping most of the material
inside.