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Anyone tried out the Turbopan yet?
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Posted : Wednesday, 26 March 2014 9:24:42 PM(UTC)
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Just had my TurboPan delivered a few weeks ago. Have not had a chance to try it out yet. Anyone else tried one out? Pros/cons?

I also made a classifier for it out of an old pedastool fan I had lying around. binded and liquid nailed a strip of heavy flexible plastic around the edge of it so it fits perfectly over the top of the turbopan. Nothing like number 8 wire technology!!!!!
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mahutaman  
Posted : Wednesday, 26 March 2014 9:45:51 PM(UTC)
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Apologies for posting the same topic 3 times, was having computer issues attaching a file and now have 3 posts, the same, that I dont think I can delete!!
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Posted : Wednesday, 26 March 2014 9:49:09 PM(UTC)
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Been there done that. No harm done matey
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Posted : Wednesday, 26 March 2014 11:34:51 PM(UTC)
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Well at least it's a change from the nike spam.... LOL :)
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Jacko  
Posted : Friday, 30 January 2015 10:41:28 PM(UTC)
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Sorry for "dredging" an old thread up, but i was also wondering what peoples thoughts/experience on the turbo pan is?

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nafcd  
Posted : Friday, 30 January 2015 10:58:06 PM(UTC)
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not that impressed with mine. big and heavy when loaded and I don't fill it to the top. works ok though. just my thoughts. others will probably disagree.
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Flintlock  
Posted : Saturday, 14 February 2015 11:50:46 AM(UTC)
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Not very impressed with mine either. Seems to work well at trapping the gold but I find it hard to pan out to the end. I'll stick to my old steel pans.
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