My first "horrible" find from a detecting point of view ...

It's not what you're probably all thinking - skulls n bones and the like.

Much worse for detecting I believe ... It is a ... drum roll ...

My first ALUMINIUM bottle cap.

Not the screw top things or similar but the ones
you need a bottle opener for, the ones on beer bottles.
It has a great signal! And they're not gonna slowly rust away.

The oodles of ones I have dug so far are all iron or steel of some sort.

I hope this isn't the start of a new trend with bottling companies ... yikes - oh horror -

Interesting, are they much different to the steel ones, eg. thicker? I've not come across them here (U.K) yet.

Do you mean the threaded screw caps??

Keith

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla

Oh no not another type of trash in the large gold ring range we're gonna have to dig. What did it ID at and what machine you using? Thanks for the horrible news lol

John

Keith Southern Wrote:
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> Do you mean the threaded screw caps??
>
> Keith

No! These are the beer bottle caps you need an opener for (or a lighter, or strong teeth ...)

"From which brand/s of beer Scooby? Maybe we'll get lucky and not have them available in this neck of the woods?
But, if 'Bud', 'Corona', then we may be S*** out of luck?

I saw a lot of 'aluminum' bottle tops in Australia and Singapore and they had an extra piece on them for your finger to go thru and pull back on it and then the top comes off...a waste of metal of I ever saw one!"

Sand dog Wrote:
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> Oh no not another type of trash in the large gold
> ring range we're gonna have to dig. What did it I
> D at and what machine you using? Thanks for the h
> orrible news lol
>
> John

ID is +62 +-3 horizontal to coil
ID is +28 +-7 absolutely vertical to coil

Tilting the bottle cap slightly from vertical to horizontal will have the value jump into the +40s, tilt a wee little more and the value jumps right up to the +60s again.

Machine: XLT with Bigfoot

Pimento Wrote:
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> Interesting, are they much different to the steel
> ones, eg. thicker? I've not come across them here
> (U.K) yet.

The overall dimensions are the same, can't measure the material thickness though, but it appears to be the same.
Perhaps the weight may be of help: Steel bottle cap 2.05g ... Alu bottle cap 1.20g

Des D Wrote:
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> "From which brand/s of beer Scooby? Maybe we'll ge
> t lucky and not have them available in this neck o
> f the woods?
> But, if 'Bud', 'Corona', then we may be S*** out o
> f luck?
>
> I saw a lot of 'aluminum' bottle tops in Australia
> and Singapore and they had an extra piece on them
> for your finger to go thru and pull back on it and
> then the top comes off...a waste of metal of I eve
> r saw one!"

It only has a "D" on it, so no major brand I know of. I'll be on the lookout in the shops with a magnet at hand to see if I can find more (hope not).
It might also be from a beer a tourist from abroad dragged along. The bottle cap did smell of beer inside.
Yes, I do sniff things like a dog - There's often a clue to be found in the smell of things ... :-O

I think I remember the pull tops you mean from Oz & Asia. Do they sort of split partially in two lines when opening?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/2017 02:08PM by Scoopy_Doo.