Why I'll Never Use a Garrett Super Sluice

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[johnh]

Do a crowd fund and get your own pans made for colour challenged prospectors. Call it the Vogus inclusive .

[paulthebaker]

Really excellent content, as a pastry chef I use the wheel to find sympathetic colors.

[jazzcardashcam]

Hi,

I know someone who works at in design at Garrett, will send this video over to them.

[stevecasvan]

I think I mentioned it before. Use a black sharpie and color the pan. I'm done this to all my green pants and it works great 😂👍

[DebCheekyProspector]

Maybe you can try hitting your pan with a blow torch lightly to reduce the fading.. saw this worked on faded plastic .. maybe worth a try 😊

[rodneymiddleton]

It would be interesting if Garrett see's this post and acts on it by making a black pan after all as you said it would bnefit a lot of people all over the world, good on you Chris.

[Gold-Prospecting-Bulgaria]

I like the green color the most. Blue also works fine. Strangely even the gray color works Ok for me. I see the gold just fine.. What I don't like in this specific pan is the lack of additional edge between the bottom and sidewall of the pan. The best pan in my opinion is the smaller 14 inch Garret Gold Trap. It's the right size and shape and has all the features I need.

[josephwilliamson]

Thank you so much for sharing this perspective Chris. I am not color blind but I most definitely prefer the color contrast with a black pan over green. I have a GPAA pan that works great, but it's green. Wish it was black or blue. Seeing black sand is good n all, but I wanna see the golds POP out.

[cltmeck]

Great video Chris. I'm just getting into prospecting at 68 yrs of age and of all the videos available yours are absolutely the best and most informative which is why I joined you at Patreon a month or two ago. My next purchase in preparation will be a detector. Any recommendations? Will be mostly on a claim with a good stream so should it be a combination underwater and normal ground use or? There's just so many out there.😢

[bannercoast]

Its amazing to me still to see someone else is colourblind. I’ve got Deutan colourblindness as well and on the strong part of that spectrum, laughed a bit when you were showing the difference between normal vision and our vision

[me]

I have two of them and they’re awesome. I use one to wash my dishes in and the other one to rinse my dishes in when I’m camping.

[garynagle]

I often wondered about this as my dad was colour blind and I am slightly, you have bought up a very interesting topic, thanks for sharing your knowledge Chris

[KingsGoldNewYork]

….. Also when I bought my Gold Claw. The color choices were many. N I had trouble choosing. I chose black. But I almost chose clear because I knew I could attach any color on the outside of the bottom I wanted. But I was always happy with black 🍻👑

[benpalmer]

Wow that’s crazy! They all look the same! I knew I was colour defective but had no clue how it affected my Golding ! And my favourite pan as well 🙃back to black it is for me ! Thanks so very much for sharing and helping me with this “I was this old when I learned “

[keithanderson]

Chris- have you tried the EnChroma glasses? They are expensive, but they can (in some cases) correct colorblindness.
Color vision is normally done by having 3 different types of cone cells in the retina that react to the 3 primary colors.
As i understand it, some forms of colorblindness are caused by having 2 of the 3 cones be activate by they same colored light, which sends muddled messages to the brain. EnChroma glasses work by filtering out the wavelengths of light in that overlap zone, allowing clear signals to get through of *this* is red, and *this* is green.
Maybe talk to your local optician and see if they can get hold of a pair to try on...

[troygunter]

I learnt with an old steel pan and got shown how to season it on the fire or blacken it. I only have one plastic pan and its also black. My son has a blue minelab pan.

[PaulTakesAHike]

I own both minelab and Garrett pans. I pick whichever is closer. Great points on this video Chris.

[apertureonline]

You're colorblind, but water and light makes it harder to see still sometimes. Mine is a bunch of flakes. They're alloyed, some are pure copper flakes.

[chrislilly]

I know you have piles of gold pans. Maybe try flat black BBQ paint on a really faded beat up green pan? I find BBQ paint tougher than generic spray paint that will take a lot of use before it starts to chip off. My 2 cents and you can re-spray the pan numerous times if you like it. $5 experiment. Could be fun.

[drb]

I prefer a pan that magnifies my miniscule gold specs (plus magnification helps with bragging rights).