Looking at them and remembering the places I've been is enough for me.'Īfter learning basic skills and seeing some minor success, some prospectors decide they want to go deeper into the activity. My buddy went with me on the outing and one of the raffle prizes was a used gold n sand someone donated, he won it, looks to be an older model than what I've got, but we took his apart and his too had the fragments split enough to stop the flaps from working correctly, so if you might want to take it apart and see if yours need to be trimmed, it's also easier to clean out the rocks and such when you have it apart.'I've got every flake and nugget I've ever found. I've thought about investing in a scuba outfit but I don't get to go often enough to justify the expense. I've also found that if I fill the bucket with water I can dive down to the bottom of nice bowl type catches and suck up whats inside them, the sand and heavy stuff go to the bottom of the bucket helping to keep it on the bottom. As I said, I use mine with the bucket, yes the lid is a pain to get on and off, but I'd rather it be a pain than have it go shooting off down stream. I cut those fragments off, put it back together and it worked better than the first time I got it.

During one of the discussions on the gold n sand, I started taking it apart to show the different bits and I found that in both of the areas with the flaps the pipe where the thumb screws are had split a little and it was just enough to block the flaps from closing all the way. I love my gold n sand, but was getting a little frustrated with it being so hard to prime and get going, this past outing we had over 70 people, and as I was processing my bucket in my gold miner people would stop and ask about both the gold miner and the gold n sand.

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