Kit w/Pump & Leg Levelers

This worked beautifully! For the first test, I ran a small sample I knew contained some gold and recovered more than 4X the amount I thought was in it! Remember: the finer the material you put into the concentrator, the lower/slower you want the water flowing. It also takes longer to separate finer particle sizes. Be patient and just let it do its job. If you don't have it set right and you are washing out ore, just pour what is in the bucket underneath back into the bowl and run it again. Practice makes perfect!If you are going to pack the bowl to take along into the field, don't use it to carry other tools or objects. You want to protect the surface of the bowl from scratches and keep it as smooth as possible. Don't treat it like a gold pan! I use a 10-gallon storage container as both reservoir and packing box. The bowl goes in upside down and everything else gets carefully packed around it.Get a set of qualifying meshes to separate your concentrates. This will make a huge difference in recovering gold. Also, buy a bullseye spirit level to assist in leveling the bowl.

I was skeptical and held off on purchasing something like this for a long time. Now a convert. I was amazed by how well this system worked for getting gold out of black sands. Very fun to watch, and way way less work than panning or working a cleanup sluice. If you have a few jars of classified black sands sitting in your garage, do yourself a favor and buy this thing :D.

We believe the hose needs to be about 12" longer for total submersion into the panning basin. With the bowl on top of a normal 5 gal bucket that's sitting in a panning basin the hose barely reached. Had to use a 3 gal bucket. Also, the leg levelers do not grip the edge of the bucket well causing everything to shift while trying to level the bowl. All in all, still a good but and after some experience and modifications, it works great. Will continue to use.

After watching UTube videos and reading the reviews I had to have one! It does the job and best of all you don't have to mess with mercury! Sure it is a slow process to ensure everything is refined to 30 mesh but it beats doing it by pan each time!Innitially I did not use the pump included as I used it for my recirculating sleuth. I also purchased 10 to 60 mesh classifiers so once I have ran all my pay dirt through the sleuth, I classify it, and run it through the blue bowl! It's simple and best of all....The Blue Bowl does all the work!

I found the Blue Bowl to be pretty amazing. It requires good leveling, and finding the perfect water speed takes time and experimentation. But overall there is a lot of control and nuance available in this system to separate gold from the fines. It comes with everything you need. The tube is short but adequate without any modification. I put a 5 gal bucket (with a few holes drilled in it about 3/4 of the way up) into an 18 Gal Walmart tote/bin. The pump draws from the 18 Gal Bin. The Blue Bowl sits on bucket, all sand goes into bucket. This is a recirculating set up. Can be used indoors with no mess. A little pricey IMHO but compared to other gold separation devices it is a bargain.

I was running my blue bowl for about the 8th time and my pump stops. I had if hooked up to a Battery & Battery charger at the same time. I e-mail amazon and the company that sold this to me just gives me the manufacture's contact info. So no help from the people i bought it from! Call the Manufacture and they tell me in the fine print not to use this setup. OK my Bad but the lady then tells me they hook up straight to a battery charger and battery in there Own repair shop . But they can't help me out as i voided the warranty doing the same thing they do everyday. I asked if they could sell me a pump at a discount and guess what that answer was. Sorry we can't help you out. If hooking up a batter and charger is so horrible why do they do it and why is there not bold print on the pump or box tell not to use this setup. This Bowl works great but know there is no kind of customer support at all. 9/21/23 UPDATE So i went on the manufactures website to find the instructions and there was no warning to not use a battery charger. In there instructions they say you can use a battery charger. I posted the page from there website with this review. SO where is my warranty replacement for the motor.

Very easy to use

Hose is too short i will be replacing it with longer hose is advertised as being a 3ft expandable hose it's only 1ft of non expanding hose easy fix