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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> Even though server was given new credit card
> info..... they still forgot to 'up-date'.
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> Tom
Gotta love it, Tom. I can appreciate your issue.
The same happened to me, only with a mortgage payment.
I updated my info,but they still charged my old debit card/bank account.
I'm glad i
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Ahh .... The Buffalo was shiny, but not new. Worn. Looked possiblhy found and cleaned, or possibly part of someone's collection but not put away and handled a lot.
The Buffalo coming in as tab really threw me because every nickel, even the buffalos I've found, rang in as high coin in the enhanced mode.
In my earlier post I mentioned a clad penny and nickel runging in as tab or coi
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OK ... This is very strange, but today at the group hunt one of my members brought along a "portable garden" ... this was so cool... I'll post a pic what it looks like. It's like a long piece of packing tape with items placed on the sticky side 18 inches apart ... a walking liberty, rosie, buffalo, tabs, foil, etc ... then another piece of packing take placed over the other st
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Well, Tom ....
I don't know what to say. I tried the detector just to test the sound tonight in my yard. I set it to ground balance - disc on autotone, ground balance at 10, sesnititvity on 10. Turned it on, volume at 10. It kinda sounded the same. I wish I could describe it. It could be compared to a wasp maybe? Only not quite so smooth. I get the ground to 5 but it's kinda hard to
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Thanks, Tom. I'll be checking it out Saturday afternoon after work. I leave here when the sun comes up and get home at about 9, but Saturday is my early day. I planned a group outing for my forum, to be held on Sunday, and I want to be sure things are working properly, otherwise I don't know what I'm going to do.
I'll test it in the yard Saturday evening before I hit that p
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My CZ-3D sounded funny today. When I put it in autotone to ground balance it wasn't making the constant, smooth hum. It was more like skipping ... like a
d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d ... like a pulsation, but there were no power lines around me. I turned off my machine and tried it again, but it did the same thing.
and it didn't perform right. I did good with it today, but it didn't p
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Well, all I've got is the stock 8 inch coil. I've been wanting to get additional coils but just haven't been able to yet.
I'll be visiting the site again within a couple weeks and I'll try the sesitivity again. You've told me several times you believe my detector has a stability problem. I've sent it in once, but perhaps I'll send it in again this winter
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Nails, nails, nails and even more nails. I first tried around an old (and very dead) apple tree and got nothing but a nail ~ square, long, and only 2 inches from the surface. In other areas they were up to 7 inches down. But they were all square nails ~ nothing modern. No one found any modern trash. My husband found a crotal bell at 2 inches, and a friend found a very old button at about 6 to 7 i
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Thanks Tom ... and for the record, that's my husband in the picture .. not me ... He's the one that got me into detecting even though people told him, "She's a girl and girls don't like to dig in the dirt!" LOL ...
Anyway, I'm going to give this a shot. I've never detected in the manner you suggest so I'll give it a shot tomorrow. These sites are v
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I've been thinking that I'm just not cut out for this detecting hobby because I never find anything good. Well, rarely anyway.
But I've got this competitive thing going on inside me that just won't let me qut. I know what the problem is ... I don't get out enough. It's that simple. And I add to the problem myself, by being too anxious when I DO get out to an aweso
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Thanks for the info. Seems logical enough. Today wasn't my day, but I'm hopng for a better day tomorrow. I barely detected because my hip was killing me. I think I'm getting out tomorrow and will give this a shot.
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I'm going to revisit this tomorrow night, but I've got a question for now ...
You've got a good target. Perhaps it's deep. You are holding the pinpoint button directly over the center of the target and raise the coil while holding the pinpoint button? If you've got a deep targer, say, 8 inches ... can it still detect the target with a foot of air in between?
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Alton Wrote:
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> When coin hunting at an old site I now always dig
> a positive repeatable (at different angles)
> signals. If a target is 6" or more and seems like
> it can be anything but iron, I dig it. I use other
> techniques to determine if it is a coin or not,
> like raising the coil and checking the all me
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Very good ....
Thanks, Tom. I'm going to call tomorrow and send them out to my forum members.
I love these booklets. My 5th edition got so ratty I had to print it from the net, and now that one has its share of coffee spills and dirt stains from the field!
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> Hi Snowy,
Dave invented the CZ (and most
> other U.S. detectors in this world)
I know the CZ on the market
> today... is a incomplete project.... as Dave was
> not finished with it,,,, but had to be released
> (incomplete) to the market due to lack of funding
> to complete the CZ as Dave origi
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Thanks Tom.
Interesting ....
I'm curious how these machines might compare with the 3D, and even if there might be a second version of the 3D. And if the F75 is Dave's invention, whose is the F4?
I'm curious to see how these two perform in the field.
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I've been checking a few things out and people are disappointed in the design graphic currently being circulated. They say it looks too much like a bounty hunter. comments like, "What happened to the Fisher design if they're still going to call it Fisher?"
Currently, I'm not sure I'd trust another Fisher made/designed by anyone else BUT Fisher. I'm not knocki
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I've heard some scuttlebutt on some forums regarding the Fisher F4 and F75 machines, which are new ... ?
People don't seem to be too impressed because they look like a Bouonty Hunter on a Fisher shaft.
You know anything about these, Tom? I hope they don't outdo my 3D.
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> Glad you find the info useful. I have submitted
> more lit (for inclusion into Fisher Intelligence
> PDF upload,,, to create the 6th edition) ....to
> First Texas several months ago..... and have
> touched base with them since then. I'm not sure
> what direction they want to go with the
> a
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I'd also like to see more info from you. I know I've only tapped into the surface of your knowledge. winter is coming and it's a great time to educate oneself via literature if it can't be done in the fields.
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