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"Most Valuable" vintage detector?
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"Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 12:52PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 01:11PM |
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Vintage? Maybe more than 10 years old? Two detectors that have been updated numerous times, but in my personal opinion the original was never improved all that much. The Explorer XS and Sovereign. More bells and whistles were added through the years, but for raw power the first models do their job and then some.
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 01:24PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 01:37PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 01:43PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 02:13PM |
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Heck as far as vintage probably a CZ6A which was first made over 20 years ago...CZ3D is really not that old but as far as I am concerned CZ's are old technology at its finest...
Guess we all have our favorites right thru Nautilus, XLT, Explorer to name a few as many of the oldies still going strong and in experienced hands are still top notch...
To each his own and whatever works comes to mind....
Guess we all have our favorites right thru Nautilus, XLT, Explorer to name a few as many of the oldies still going strong and in experienced hands are still top notch...
To each his own and whatever works comes to mind....
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 04:20PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 04:21PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 04:53PM |
Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 217 |
I don't know if I would say they were "most valuable", but some of my more enjoyable vintage detectors I have owned would be a fisher CZ5, Compass Gold Scanner Pro, White's XLT, Wilson Con Select.
But the one detector that found me the most silver coins of all.......GoldMaster 66TR. That detector could literally
talk to you. It had it's own language. I believe I bought my first 66TR in 1969 (I think) so I guess that would be considered vintage. Sometime I'll tell you guys a quick story about one of my hunts, It'll sock your knocks off.
But the one detector that found me the most silver coins of all.......GoldMaster 66TR. That detector could literally
talk to you. It had it's own language. I believe I bought my first 66TR in 1969 (I think) so I guess that would be considered vintage. Sometime I'll tell you guys a quick story about one of my hunts, It'll sock your knocks off.
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 05:02PM |
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Sovereign, great for silver, also the Fisher 1266x went deep even if was a.........................nail.
The drawback on Sov was too many people it was heavy, the 1266x went squirrly near emi but so do many detectors. it had a good pinpoint mode not something
I can say about the Sov.
My favourite detector of choice is still the Sov but not had many other to choose from. hh
The drawback on Sov was too many people it was heavy, the 1266x went squirrly near emi but so do many detectors. it had a good pinpoint mode not something
I can say about the Sov.
My favourite detector of choice is still the Sov but not had many other to choose from. hh
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 05:08PM |
Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 714 |
go-rebels Wrote:
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> Anybody run an Explorer "S" (not an "XS" or "SE").
> Now that's vintage!
As I recall that people were always sending the Early Explorers back for repairs, I may be wrong but seems I read that years ago. Though the posters sending back that model were the top hunters at the time.
Knock on wood every detector I owned all were reliable only a few minor problems and have owned many brands.
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> Anybody run an Explorer "S" (not an "XS" or "SE").
> Now that's vintage!
As I recall that people were always sending the Early Explorers back for repairs, I may be wrong but seems I read that years ago. Though the posters sending back that model were the top hunters at the time.
Knock on wood every detector I owned all were reliable only a few minor problems and have owned many brands.
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 07:47PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 08:19PM |
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I was waiting for someone to say the Teknetics Mark 1. I nearly bought one of it's 'little brothers' last year, just so I could tinker around with it.
Here in the U.K, one dinosaur that some old-timers still like is the Arado 120 and 130. They are heavy, ugly, though surprisingly frugal on one (or 2) PP3 (9 volt) batteries. They are considered deep, but at the expense of having no discrimination at depth. They suffer from aging of the search-coil (resin drying out and shrinking?) and that contributes to the scarcity of good working ones.
Here in the U.K, one dinosaur that some old-timers still like is the Arado 120 and 130. They are heavy, ugly, though surprisingly frugal on one (or 2) PP3 (9 volt) batteries. They are considered deep, but at the expense of having no discrimination at depth. They suffer from aging of the search-coil (resin drying out and shrinking?) and that contributes to the scarcity of good working ones.
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 09:38PM |
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Compass challenger X-200
Compass Gold Scanner Pro
Treasure Baron With Gold traxx
Wilson relic and Coin IV
Nautilus DMC 2 first one no boosted, train whistle
Whites 5900 Di Pro Sl..CB..
Tesoro Pantera/Bandido
Mark 1 Tek..
1265/1266
“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2015 09:40PM by Keith Southern.
Compass Gold Scanner Pro
Treasure Baron With Gold traxx
Wilson relic and Coin IV
Nautilus DMC 2 first one no boosted, train whistle
Whites 5900 Di Pro Sl..CB..
Tesoro Pantera/Bandido
Mark 1 Tek..
1265/1266
“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2015 09:40PM by Keith Southern.
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 10:10PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 21, 2015 10:18PM |
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I had a Treasure baron with all the modules and coils. What a great design. Had the White's 5900, Sovereign and CZ5. The Sovereign with the 8" coil got me Indian heads at 11". I found more old coins with the Sovereign than any other detector I've had. Well I had it a long time 
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I had them and wonder now why I don't have them.
Rick
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I had them and wonder now why I don't have them.
Rick
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 23, 2015 05:06PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 23, 2015 05:48PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 23, 2015 05:59PM |
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The fact that 2-box machines like the Gemini3 and TM808 are still manufactured makes you think they must still work well at what they do. As to their 'value', I guess that depends if they find you something no other machine could......
The finders of this hoard (the Grouville Hoard) used a 2-box (and other regular machines):
[www.dailymail.co.uk]
The finders of this hoard (the Grouville Hoard) used a 2-box (and other regular machines):
[www.dailymail.co.uk]
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 23, 2015 09:41PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 24, 2015 04:32AM |
Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 2,160 |
therover61 Wrote:
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> +1 on the CZ6A. Also gets my vote as the number
> one overall best detector ever. Still have my
> original one bought in '92 that is going strong as
> ever as well as a back up. Won't ever sell those
> two.
if you ever change your mind,look me up,i'll take it off your hands!
had one in '92..sweetest analog audio on silver,and one deep (s.o.b.)
(h.h.!)
j.t.
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> +1 on the CZ6A. Also gets my vote as the number
> one overall best detector ever. Still have my
> original one bought in '92 that is going strong as
> ever as well as a back up. Won't ever sell those
> two.
if you ever change your mind,look me up,i'll take it off your hands!
had one in '92..sweetest analog audio on silver,and one deep (s.o.b.)
(h.h.!)
j.t.
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 24, 2015 04:41AM |
Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 2,160 |
Hombre Wrote:
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> I think the XL Pro with the tone mod is a great
> tool for more open, less targeted areas that can
> be swept at a faster speed. Great scouting
> detector with it's accurate analog meter, then
> when a trashy area has been found with it, go back
> with a slow sweep detector. Just my 2¢.....
hey hombre!
i found that if a trashy area was encountered,i usually just mounted the
5.3 "black max" and had at it running " geb sat mode" scanning very slowly!
was able to get great separation in the junk!.i'm just sayin'
(h.h.!)
j.t.
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> I think the XL Pro with the tone mod is a great
> tool for more open, less targeted areas that can
> be swept at a faster speed. Great scouting
> detector with it's accurate analog meter, then
> when a trashy area has been found with it, go back
> with a slow sweep detector. Just my 2¢.....
hey hombre!
i found that if a trashy area was encountered,i usually just mounted the
5.3 "black max" and had at it running " geb sat mode" scanning very slowly!
was able to get great separation in the junk!.i'm just sayin'
(h.h.!)
j.t.
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 24, 2015 01:42PM |
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 26, 2015 05:08PM |
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I'll have to go with the two I have used most, Tesoro Bandido (original) and Troy X5. Still using the Bandido I bought in 92 and the X5 I bought in 03. Yes I've been living in a cave awhile.... the X5 is certainly deeper and hotter on small/low conductors but the Bandido is no slouch either and a bit better in iron/bad ground. BTW, both will pass Keith's dime on edge in the deck test with flying colors, thanks Mr Southern I somehow never thought of doing it that way.....
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Re: "Most Valuable" vintage detector? June 26, 2015 07:12PM |
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Lovely machines, but except for Whites and Fisher, if they break, it's all over. There is one famous source for repair in Texas, but, sadly, my experience with him (twice) has been that it takes forever and when you get them back, they still don't work right. For Minelabs that Minelab no longer supports, I have no idea what you would do.
Too bad.
Rick Kempf
Gold Canyon AZ- where there is no gold
Too bad.
Rick Kempf
Gold Canyon AZ- where there is no gold
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