Can I use the GPX 4500 on the beach?

[kurgen]

Hi. I have been offered a GPX 4500 at what I think is a good price. What I need to know is, is it possible to use this machine for beach hunting? Any advice would be appreciated.

kurgen

 

[D&P-OR]

Well Yeah, you sure could, it's a P.I. machine & it will go deeeep, you'll be digging everything.-----BUT, why would you want to risk ruining such an expensive detector on salt water beaches?---Using it on fresh water beaches would be a different story.

 

[Terry Soloman]

A Minelab GPX 4500 is a gold nugget finding monster - on dry land. Putting it in a saltwater environment is OK with Minelab, because you will be buying a new unit every one-to-two years! Save yourself a lot of money and buy a Tesoro Sand Shark Pulse Induction unit ($600) that you can actually take into the salt water! - Terry

 

[kurgen]

Thanks guys for the feedback. I just wondered if it was a possibility to use it on the beach. I have the excal 2 for water work and was not sure if the 4500 was only for nugget hunting. I am basically going to buy it for gold hunting but just wondered.
Why would using it on the beach affect the machine if it was not going in the water?

regards,

kurgen.

 

[dewcon4414]

Imagine this Kurgen.... Tom Dankowski says target ratio at the towel line is 400 to 1 bad to good. If you opt to use that machine you are looking at like 1200 to 1. Thats a huge amount of digging. However.... places like valley ball courts would be excellent. Why... because they dont have a lot of trash in them and people with lesser machines clean out the larger targets... but those diamond studs, necklaces, and small targets are still there.

Dew

 

[D&P-OR]

Thanks guys for the feedback. I just wondered if it was a possibility to use it on the beach. I have the excal 2 for water work and was not sure if the 4500 was only for nugget hunting. I am basically going to buy it for gold hunting but just wondered.
Why would using it on the beach affect the machine if it was not going in the water?

regards,

kurgen.

Because of the salt spray that can/will get in the detector electronics/circuitry.-----Even the salt in the air can/will "do a number" on a land detector at a salt water beach.------If you don't believe that--open up a (land) machine that has been used in a salt water atmosphere sometime (for any length of time).------I would NEVER (knowingly) buy a used (land) detector that has been used around a salt water atmosphere.------If you're going to do it--better just designate that one detector for salt water hunting & be ready to "pay the piper". JMHO----------------Del