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Despite what Monte advised elsewhere, I'm not giving it a chance: an 11" coil on such a detector is 'overkill' - it may be be a far better and easier-to-use detector fitted with a 'Kruzer' type 7" concentric coil.
I'm not buying one until smaller coils are available (preferably any shape 7" coil and any color too!)
It was a great business decisio
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Always good to have a Goldie show up unexpectedly!
Remembering back to my half sovereign with the CTX3030...I was in an old wooded area that had been used as a dump by locals in recent times...signals everywhere and large foil all over...
So, when the signal was heard and the soil turned over and the glint of gold in the dark area in the trees was seen, initially a recent euro coin was the ob
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The 'Quest 40' got a good Thumbs Up from a fellow field tester 'extraordinaire'...Quote: "I'm actually quite enamoured with the little Q40 for the price and for what it offers!"
What did you get the Q10 for Tex?
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TNSS... You find the strangest stuff!!!
It's good... I like it... Must be Brazil with all that gold??? Lol.
The advert is right: I really do trust "Duracell" (and must have spent a small fortune on batteries up thru my 40+ yrs career)
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Anyway...no matter the color, I'll buy one and Test it out...just have to wait a bit which they are pretty accomplished at now...keeping us waiting..
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If used only in water and then put away for a period of time and then doing the same for the times / hours used and then stored again it might be allowing damp to do it's thing?
Sounds as if you need to buy an Equinox? (or wait for the V)
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goodmore Wrote:
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> Minelab seems to be on a mission to own the market
...it seems they're targeting 'the yeller feller'...and no one else?
Ref: the use of 'yellow' (and red = Minelab) in the video The yellow = 'yeller fella?'
I'm thinking: the 340 will have 3 x Preset programs to be d
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Yes, that video is a bit OTT all right!
I'm glad they have ditched that 'iPhone' tall control box design for what appears to be a 'more streamlined AT Pro' type of box?
Easier on the hand and to swing and hopefully will have 'normal battery power' too?
One thing I noted and could be wrong is, the length of the top end rod from hand grip to elbow - looks
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Michael296 Wrote:
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> I don't have a problem with battery in the stem.
> I have a problem with battery in the COIL !!
> I did not know the battery was inside the X35 coil
> I THOUGHT it was Vise-Versa
> The battery inside the coil is the reason I have
> never bought the Deus
> Makes their coils crazy expensive
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Possibly a day the detectors won't be switched on?
Enjoy the Holiday and swing a spatula instead of a detector as you flip those burgers and use your free hand to 'twist off' that beer bottle top... but don't forget to dispose properly!!!
"Happy 4th"
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ex Moonlab
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The guy who posted about "Low tones & High tones", is incorrect.
There is just one tone from GPX detectors UNLESS you get a complete blank / discrimination dip sound you can "equate" to be an equivalent Low sound.
To repeat, GPX detectors produce just a single tone on all metals including iron to foil to lead to brass to bronze to good to copper to silver.
You will
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...2 of them On Assignment in Canada...any word from Keith Southern's porch? Any boxes dropped off there recently? Lol...
Look FWD to hearing all about this detector...like I said before, 'Could be a future classic?'
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3 'little known' facts on Sov's
1. They don't like 'freshly buried' targets - they react way better to 'long-buried' coins that have had a chance to interact with their surrounding soil, leaf mould, etc etc - called 'Halo Effect' So a small dime size coin can sound as broad as a cup while a large coin can sound like a saucer (In Disc mode / sea
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Easy - "E Trac" for me hands down! And I had been Testing "CTX" (E Trac 2 which it had started life as) for 3 years before any of you guys got your 'mitts' on it!
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No. It's still 'unfair'
The 'old Minelab' wouldn't have done it.
New owners - different attitude.
And yes, alluding to this thread, 'the old Minelab' used talk to their 'competitors'
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dewcon4414 Wrote:
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> Or in the case of the Nox just halt everyone’s sales based o
> n something new coming......nothing was selling fo
> r months. That’s where ya want to be.
Dew, I don't agree with that. I believe it is unfair trading and anti competitive. Hate to see it happening and we know, it does, it is and it&
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Back in 2008-12, I owned a Small Suzuki 4X4 that had to be repaired 8 times under Warranty. (shocks & oil leaks)
Each time it had to go into the shop it was emptied completely: once back in my possession everything would be put back in but, I mislaid ' a few pieces' from time to time!
So I park up at a site and begin to don all the gear, the socks, the boots, the waterproofs, th
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I'm of a different opinion. It's not a bad price for what it hopefully will be - I think it could be a future 'Classic' job?
What can you get for $650.00 - Listed are a few examples and we know what they can do! The "Vista X" is an unknown???
* AT Gold 637
* EQX 649
* MX7 549
* Gold Kruzer 636
* Gold Racer Pro kit 636
* Gold Bug 599
* F70 649
* Tejon 602
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Some Q's posed on April 26th
Especially interested in:
Weight
Balance
On/Off switch - solid or soft (it is prone to being knocked OFF when going backwards thru brush)
Ability to 'hover' coil as you scan without having to 'hold the shaft up' or other such imbalance...
Signal clarity
Signal intensity
Signal width
Square coil edges = anything unusual in the signal
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Don't have an older 'ProFind 25' box to hand but on the 2 other 'ProFind 35/15's boxes, it does say Made in Ireland.
People used espouse about 'E Trac's Made in Ireland' so I don't reckon it's a bad thing? The Luck of the Irish...Lol
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Hey Mike Hillis,
You're right! I went thru my Diaries (1986/7) toking for older "Gold Sabre" scribblings and didn't find any on it but did see where I had [ bought 3 Tesoros's ] in the one purchase which included a 'Cutlass', and a 'Royal' where I returned the Royal the following week but didn't have the reason noted? I did the same with anothe
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It'd be wonderful if you could turn your investigative powers into more recent and current matters..the "Vanquish" (pin pointers are old news)
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...have a vague recollection of looking at a rechargeable option for this detector but can't remember and I haven't documented what happened to it?
I know I Sold it but 'when' and to 'whom' and 'where?'
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