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National Geographic - Childrens Digital Metal Detector from Trends Uk Ltd
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Minimum Age: 8 years
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Product Description Hunt for lost items and hidden treasures! Detects all metal types, including base metals and alloys. The rotating, backlit digital LCD shows status and battery strength, and the two-piece adjustable shaft easily converts from full height to hand-held. Further features include: adjustable sensitivity, audio tone alert with volume control and large search coil for excellent coverage and depth. 8 Years +
Customer Reviews
Much better than I thought Posted 06 October 2008
Reading the other reviews, I was pretty worried when I heard that this had been bought for my daughter's birthday. I thought that it could put her off something that she could otherwise take an interest in. Having tried it out though, it's actually fine, and got a lot of interest and play time from my daughter and her visiting friends.
Physically it's typical for a modern toy, quite plasticky and light. It fits together easily and is easy to hold (where the lightness helps for a child). It has two rotary controls: one for on/volume and one for sensitivity. There is an animating display which is lit and spins while it's searching and stops when it finds something, accompanied by a beeping sound.
I found that if I turned the sensitivity up so that it was detecting 'thin air' and then just tweaked it down a notch to silence it then the detector worked very well, being set off by a 2p coin from about 5cm away. I actually used it to find a garden spike for a clothes drier which had become buried by long grass and mud!
The children have had fun testing different materials to see which qualify as metal, and looking for small hidden 'treasures'. I have to say that for the price this is a good toy. It works perfectly well and is fun an easy to use (once it's been adjusted!).
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