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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
**abvernon**
Do you and your DH ever use a gold prospecting metal detector on your gold trips? I am looking into one for DH for his birthday and have no clue which brand is good.
Re: **abvernon**
Why yes he does! DH just got one last year for it.
Let me ask him the exact brand and model as he did alot of research on this.
Ok here it is. If you need help understanding some of his lingo, let me know.
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I have a White?s GMZ. It is a no-frills, simple-to-use metal detector in the 5KHz range. It runs in all-metal mode so there is no discrimination or fancy identifying of targets (coins, nuggets, trash, etc.) and no identification of the type of metal (gold, silver, aluminum, steel). It is actually a stripped down model of the GMT.
Pros:
Inexpensive < $500
simple, only 2 control knobs and salt mode on/off.
Runs in silent mode, that is only targets and noise can be audibly heard.
With a simple manual ground balance, it is simply turn, balance, then detect
Lightweight and not so bulky
Cons:
No fancy detecting/identifying of targets
Runs in silent mode?. Non-silent (traditional) you can ?train? your ear to different sounds targets make and identify stuff
No gauges or meters that move when a ?worthy? target is found.