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I sold on Ebay as a dealer for over 15 yrs for a living, and finally just gave it up before retiring a couple yrs ago due to ebay's dishonesty and siding with random dishonest buyers along the way. I find its better to just sell face to face and advertise on CL and put up with the crank calls and tire kickers. I still will buy new merchandise for my own personal use off Ebay and Amazon, main
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Its the same in the nugget hunting hobby, known gold producing areas have been thrashed over and over, however in the last couple yrs I have managed to find 17 nuggets to half grammers size in these same areas others have given up on. So its still out there. One buddy found a 15.9 gram quartz/gold specmien last sunday in a well known area of Nevada with his GB2 and it was only a couple inches dee
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Looks like this could be a usable machine and not just another toy detector. Will be nice to see some reviews once its being used in the field. I could use something like this in place of my GB2 possibly. I am holding off til the Fisher CZX comes out, am intrigued by the new form of ground balance allowing more depth, sounds like the CZX will be a similar automatic nugget detector with some new t
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Its one thing to be a great software engineer there are a lot of them out there, but its a rare thing to be a software engineer with a very good background in actual detecting and what is required to build an outstanding machine. Follow the trail of outstanding detectors and who built them.
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I agree with Auminesweeper, they broke the mold on vlf detectors after the MXT was mfg. It is a pinnacle of vlf technology which has been copied to death since but not matched or exceeded in quality and performance. I have owned three mxt's since mfg, have strayed to other machines and came back each time to the MXT as my coin/jewelry machine. I have several friends that feel the same way,
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What about Fisher's promised CZX nugget detector perhaps coming this yr. Dual freq, new form of ground balance allowing much deeper detection thru bad ground, priced around 1K, etc. That would do it for me. I am looking to replace my old school GB2 someday, this could be the detector. So far nothing has come close to the GB2 for me in a vlf lightweight detector. Dave Johnson is the manager
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The halo effect may exist however a detector is not sensitive enough to pick up such minute particles. So it has no effect on detectors if it does exist.
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MXT is the only one I have rebought, three times, bought one twice over time, then upgraded a third time to a MXT Pro which I currently have.
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MXT Pro which I own now or would take any variant of the MXT, its the most versitile machine I have ever used, killer for coin/jewelry, especially gold jewelry, and will double as a decent nugget machine if necessary. Coils I would use would be 5.3 eclipse, 8x6 SEF, and 4.5DD detech.
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62 been detecting since 1968, built my first detector (bfo) from a kit by Relco, got my first social security check this week, so semi retired now.
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My buddy and I have been using detech coils for yrs on Whites machines for various styles of detecting, and are very happy with the results. The Detech coils, chosen carefully can really light up a White's machine. Particularly the MXT. I do believe that Detech coils over the 12x10 to 13" size may not be the best performers for most detectors, we have had great results with small Dete
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I say don't mess with perfection it took two yrs to engineer this MXT detector to start with and they got it right, if you go to 4 aa's there goes your depth and your battery life, less amperage less depth, if you a add notch system, there goes a large percentage of gold jewelry signals, its a great detector as it sits, it just needs to be mastered. If you want lightweight get a mx5. I
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For the price of 9,999.00 I would want a detector to find and signal on "Gold Only" and no other metals, entirely too much money. It appears to be a vlf/pi built together by the brochure. Maybe the screen has ferrous/non ferrous id. At least for the VLF portion. At any rate I am sticking with my gpx4000 and GB2 for now, they are paid for.
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Congratulations to Nokta on the new Racer, sounds like they have hit it out of the park for the price. I hope you sell a boat load of them!!
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I have been around the block with lots of detectors over the yrs, but since 2002, and my first mxt, I have strayed away since a few times, but always back to a mxt, now I have a mxt pro to use this yr. My 4th MXT, hehe. They are a well built machine.
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We have come a long way with detector capabilities since the 70's. Depth and size of targets one can detect. Id also. I love my mxt screen. Its addicting, the vdi numbers, iron probablilty, etc. I had a Red Baron SPD when they first came out, wowie, that thing was a silver coin getter, harder you swung the deeper it would detect to about 5-6", it was my first motion detector also, befor
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I really like the SEF coils as well, but this size is not that far off from the 8x6 so I think I will just watch the reviews once some are in circulation. Not sure there would by any noticable advantge of a 10x5 over the 8x6. I wish Detech would build smaller GPX SEF coils, I would like to try a 8x6 or even a 10x5 size gpx coil on my 4000 minelab for grain size nugget hunting. They stop at 15x12
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I just ordered myself a 8x6 sef this morning. That is very interesting the adapter for sef coils to 6.59khz, i have a buddy using a Whites Eagle II that could use that. We are going to do some testing with the 8x6 sef this spring on nuggets in the outback of nevada see how it works on them.
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Keith, thanks for the info on the sef sizes versus performance, I recently was able to test a hunting buddy's 8x6 sef for about 45 mins at a park, wow I was convinced I need this coil for my Mxt Pro, He has had the 8x6 for a couple months now and it hasn't come off his M6 yet. I will be ordering one soon. Great pinpointing, depth equal to or deeper than 5.3 eclipse, and best of all it
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I have seen some details on the forums this morning about the new Garrett ATX, a pulse detector due to come out soon, looks interesting, looks almost exactly like the AML-1000 Garrett mine detector, has a quick iron id button, one guy on an aussie site said it is a infinium in a gov surplus mine detector housing, just his opinion of course, I sure hope not. Garrett has a decent video of it in ope
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I have a Mxt I use for coins/jewelry, but I only have a 5" excellerator coil which I use for tot lots and a 5.3 eclipse coil I use for general dirt hunting. Been wanting a larger coil for some time, but don't care for the larger white's coils. Recently I saw these Detech 15x8 coils for sale for the Mxt on Ebay, was wondering if anyone has bought one for their Mxt and how does it w
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I would like a mxt with switchable freqs from stock 14.7 khz to 75khz, for finding tiny gold nuggets. I would change nothing else about the detector. Works great for me for coins/jewelry as is, its hot on gold jewelry for me also, prospecting mode is somewhat lacking due to khz its not as sensitive to nuggets below 2 grains in size. I believe the 75khz freq addition would make it a true all aroun
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A very detrimental show for our hobby, does not portray the hobby as it really is. Plus the values they place on the items even wholesale was mostly way overpriced. Just mindless entertainment for the masses.
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I agree with Steve, Dave should sell his technology to Whites or Fisher and let them bring the technology to market if its as good as he says it is, he will still benefit for yrs to come moneywise if he does a decent deal with a company that can bring it to market in a reasonable amount of time.
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