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I wonder how thick the glass is as they were made for perfume rather than gold - I learnt many times the hard way over the years that light bottles made for pills and medicines and other liquids tend to break when any solids are put in them.

I use small DSIR specimen bottles for the smaller nuggets and flakes and large DSIR ones for nuggets which dont fit into the smaller bottles which comfortably take 1.5 ounces or around 48 grammes.

I have included a photo of these bottles and from the photo you can see how thick the glass is - I have not had any break that I can remember in fifty years as I got the first of them when I was still at Primary School. I understand that they are still available.

The shape of the larger ones you have shown us is absolutely ideal - I do like them and must admit that I would like to hold one to access it for myself as I would indeed get some of the larger ones.

Edited by user Monday, 21 May 2012 11:50:29 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I think that the smaller bottles would be really nifty to put fine colours and flakes in to give away as gifts to people so no qualms there about buying them.

I liked Black Pete - a likeable rogue. As for Popeye - Spinach never worked for me so I can only assume hes a fraud - and Olive Oil is configured all wrongly - shes sort of like a lamp post, no handle bars. They are all politically incorrect - created by communist factions planted in Western World society to corrupt tender little minds - like Big Ears and Noddy (Gay?) Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men (Speaks for itself) Mickey and Daisy ( Him leading her astray and living in sin which is quite a good idea actually)

Looking forward to seeing the other thing.

Hi guys, Plastic vials & bottles are the best to use for your precious gold. Drop plastic & you have no problem. Drop glass with gold in it & guess what happens.........

JW :)

Hi Graeme, Some very good advice there....re filling the bottle with water so if you do drop it in the water it will sink to the bottom & not float off. :)
I have a pic here of some of the plastic screw top vials & bottles I use.



The bigger ones: I carry one in a little digital camera zip up carry pouch that fits onto my waste belt that I wear when out detecting. Any gold I find goes into it. The belt also carries my pick, a pocket knife & GPS unit. The little white topped bottle is a glass one which I was given three of. I didnt want them but the bloke had a box full of them & said to take some. The other white top ones are plastic. The bonus of these three sizes is that they fit inside each other. The little glass one fits inside the white top plastic ones which in turn fit inside the bigger ones. Great if I want to any keep gold seperate when out in the field. I keep an inventry of all the gold I find. Date, location & what coil I was using. I keep the gold found with the different coils in different bottles & like wise with different locations. When I get home I can weigh up what I have & make a note of what coil found what & the different loctions. So the different size bottles fitting inside each other comes in handy out in the field.

JW :)

Hi John
I guess we all have our favourites and choices so in the end it comes down to personal choice.
I wear an American Medics pouch and in it I keep spare batteries in plastic air rifle pellet containers because these hold two 9 volt batteries each and stop the batteries shorting out.
I carry one of the Hair Gel containers to hold larger amounts of gold and a glass DSIR bottle with ultra thick glass as well.
I also carry a pair of tweezers to pick up gold under water or in cracks out of reach of fingers.
I carry another small plastic container with a dozen .303 shells for my rifle in case of pigs or deer.

I carry enough bottles to keep the gold separate as I put the gold into bottles back at home according to where the Gold was found.

I used to keep fanatical records, day after day and year after year but 25 years ago I decided it wasnt worth it anymore keeping my running records or any other records for that matter and stopped doing it and now I havent a clue in a million what I have in weight now...some of it I hid and cant find but its there...somewhere!
I think that the last full running record I kept was for 1984 and it was interesting as I recorded 42 days away from home - 36 actual working days - averaged five hours work per day that I was working - total 180 hours work - total gold kept and not counting what I gave away and never weighed came to 21 ounces 12 dwt and 14 grains. Roughly $43,000 dollars at todays price or $238 per hour. It aint like that so much nowdays!

Edited by user Friday, 25 May 2012 9:11:18 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Great idea! I had two of those 9 volters in my pocket one day out detecting and after a while I noticed my leg was getting a tad hot......yep you guessed it, they were shorting out on one another in my pocket! Now I cant use that pocket anymore as it has a bloody hole! Luckily they didnt ignite etc.

On the subject of batteries ...
years ago me and a few mates had been out spotlighting and left the spotlight connected inside the car we got home and went to bed and later that night the car cought on fire and to top it off the car was parked in the garrage which was under the house!!!! luckly the cat woke my freind and evryone managed to push the burning car out from under the house faaaarkn lucky even the fire brigade wernt much help as they got stuck in the driveway 100 meters from the action!
I can tell you rite now i always disconnect my spotlight:)
GBM.