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I'll let everyone know when I get some time using mine. I never worry about what I find, since I hunt for pleasure first and payback second. But so far, I have never been dissapointed with my yearly totals with the E Trac...and I hunt heavily pounded cellar holes and the occasional park. I've reserved the 3030 with all of the available options, so it will take a while to sort them out.
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I was under the impression that those were List Prices, not the selling price? I bet if you shop around the dealers will lower them prices. I'm getting one and I ain't gonna pay list price.
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm so disillusioned on how E tracs are set up and tested by the so called experts that I rarely post. I'm not gonna get into a pi**ing contest against the Blisstool or Deus on it. To each his own. If people want to swap coils and run auto +3 or have a heavy disc screen in a carpet of iron, and not run an open screen or fling it from side to side at 30 MPH, so be it. Test your new machi
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coinnut
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Great find Aaron!! I agree that it is probably a newer token, especially since it is a 5 cent token, which would have been a large amount for a token from the early to mid 1800's. But no matter what it turns out to be, it is a good looking token. Who knows, it could be the real deal too. I hope it is.
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coinnut
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ozzie Wrote:
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> A friend of mine has a etrac that just stoped
> working. We changed the batteries, did a voltage
> test on the battery pack, voltage was good. Still
> wouldn't turn on. Anybody have this problem?
> I also know that there are worthy competitors to
> the E, easily the cz's and f-75's to n
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think this guy has developed a technique with his machine. Whether it holds up over time or is actually a true strength of the E trac, will have to be proven by other E Trac users. I can say for certain that my silver count and total artifact count has gone up a lot since I started getting comfortable with the E Trac. I find much more with it than my DFX. I know that is not a head to head test,
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coinnut
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For a machine to ID a half dime at 16", I'd pay around $7000.00, if it could see right through iron (for real that is lol), I'd up it to ten grand.
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coinnut
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I agree Keith. I have tried many programs with the DFX and the E Trac to get a small non ferrous target behind some nails and only a couple of times was I successful. Those times were the nails falsing lol. It just can't happen as of yet, with this technology.
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coinnut
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Aaron Wrote:
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> Thanks!
> I have a couple of books on military buttons from
> the 1700's to the 1800's, and would like to get
> another for civilian types like the one I found.
> Would Alberts Button Book have these old ones in
> it?
Albert's is a good book to have but does not get into any buttons t
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If it has no image on the front, it is what we call a flat button. They are usually the size of a nickle. We find these at cellar holes and generally date them as 1820. If yours is larger (like a quarter) it's probably older than 1820. Some of them can get into the mid 1700's. The design on the back is just a design the manufacturer picked. There are all kinds of wreaths and eagles and
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coinnut
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Why melt them, Just sell them to dealers like we do silver coins. That is not illegal? Keep them as bullion. Besides if someone wanted to melt them and pour them out flat, a simple punch would make them look like scrap fron a machine shop project and would not arouse suspicion. I may start to roll mine lol
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coinnut
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wildwally1 Wrote:
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> This forum sure would be a nice place to discuss
> metal detecting...
Yes it would be. This is why I hardly post and why metal detecting forums should not have political posts (just my opinion). I would leave the politics for the political forums which are probably all over the internet. Anyone have any good
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have done the same tests with the E Trac in my basement. I heard a half reale under a nail and also heard a large cent with three nails all around and close to it. But all at the same plane. Raise any of the nails and you get a null.lol That test can be probably repeated by dozens of machines. But even in my testing of the E Trac, things changed drastically when I used the same program that wor
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coinnut
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Thanks guys. You may be right. I have had this E trac since the first month after it was released. I am pretty used to it and have done well with it. But what got me the most is that the other E Tracs have not faired as poorly with the iron as I have recently. I will recheck my sensitivity and try and adjust out the falsing. I may just run 2 tone for a bit to ease things up. I love this machine e
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coinnut
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therover61 Wrote:
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> When the unit is falsing like that during real
> world hunting, do you ever switch to a wide open
> Quickmask screen to 'see' what target or targets
> are in the ground ?
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> Did you ever try 2 tone Ferrous mode as opposed to
> muti tone Conductive mode ?
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> Thing is wit
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Wondering if anyone has any ideas on the E Trac and falsing on iron. Most specifically on how some E Tracs handle it better than others do. I have one that sometimes just locks on a solid silver 11-47, 12-46 on a nail and the pinpont is in the same spot. Just wondering if anyone has noticed a difference from machine to machine. Mine just got an update (new board / firmware) and new Pro Coil. It s
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coinnut
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I have the E Trac and the X-12, Pro coil, and had the 12 x 15 SEF. I sold the 12x15 (big mistake). From the remaining 2 coils, I would never sell the Pro coil. The X-12 has not gained me one bit. In fact it may have lost a bit to the Pro coil. My finds went down when I had it on, especially during some volunteer work with archaeologists looking for brass Indian points (@1637). I quickly switched
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think I read they use three "sets" of frequencies and the 4th frequency monitors the ground. In each "set" of frequencies you have 9 separately spaced frequencies being sent out (pulse train? Maybe??). That is how you get 28 frequencies (3 x 9 +1 ground freq). Not sure this is technically correct in it's language, lol, but a rough idea of how I understood it.
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coinnut
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Nails and most iron will null out if you have those FE/CO numbers disc'ed out. So, say you blank out lines FE 30 - 35, almost all iron will null out. But if you crank your sensitivity above 26 or so, the bigger iron (rings, horse shoe, flat stock, bent(hooked over) nail, etc..) will break through and sometimes it rolls over into the FE 01-03 lines, but other times it gives me a lot of hits o
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> Yes, albeit expensive...............a paradigm
> shift away from electromagnetic-principle
> operating detectors .......(highly subject to
> ferromagnetic masking)..... that operate on a
> magnetic-core Earth.
So what is left?? Radar, sonar, some kind of light or laser technology?? How does a fis
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coinnut
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Caretaker Wrote:
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> Coinnut, they have those cars, it's the hydrogen
> stations they don't have, it took years to put a
> gas station on every corner, when oil get so high
> we can't afford it, business men will invest,
> supply and demand runs the market
Yeah, Honda, Toyota and probably Ford have been
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I hunt with whatever brand will make the better finds. Colonial relic hunting is demanding on a machine. Currently I use an E Trac and have retired my DFX. I am always waiting for the next model, but I always wait for the hype to die down before I purchase it.
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Here is a car related story for you. Most people think of Bob Lazar as the UFO guy but he is a smart guy. Here is another reason to supress hydrogen in a form we can all make for free. Why aren't wwe making these cars?? Money is always the answer
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coinnut
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I bought one for the E Trac (face and small side pieces). I also was the one who sent in my DFX as a prototype unit for them. I got not only the face but the whole control box done. It is a good product, kinda pricey though. It holds up real well except to bug spray. Don't let it get on the plastic.
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I run the E Trac in TTF all the time, except at parks where multi has a slight advantage when you want to cover a lot of ground. For a quick try of TTF run the relic mode or just disc out lines 31-35. If you get some lower falsing, disc out CO 01 & 02 from top to bottom. Don't worry about losing very small gold, since most places don't contain that much gold anyways (except tot lots
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have noticed in general that my finds change during the day. Early morning and a bit after sunrise is good, then "finds of depth" dry out. Sometimes they recover later on, sometimes not. I hunt with a friend and he has the same problems too. He is using a DFX and I am using an E Trac. The silent interference is an eye opener. I guess we should stay at opposite ends of the cellar hole.
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coinnut
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digitrich Wrote:
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> Is there any machine that can tell a silver dime
> from a clad one? None of mine can.
> Most will tell a copper penny from a
> Zincoln.........Oh thank God. Wouldn't it have
> been cool if all Lincolns were Zinc from 58 on??
Hey, the E trac can tell the difference from a clad dime to a silv
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coinnut
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
So far my E trac has not pulled any coins from worked out cellar holes near the lip. It has pulled some low conductive targets and some smaller shallow targets there. It nulls as expected around the iron nail sections of the hole. I used the stock 11" coil and mostly the 4.5 x 7" excelerator coil. Tried a clear screen and a partial ferrous 27-35 disc'd screen. It's a great mac
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coinnut
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> Very good! Your quality is improving greatly. The
> quarter is a 1917..... no stars below the eagle.
If he's lucky it may even be the rarer 1916 SLQ. There used to be a product out there called nickle date restorer for nickels, and one called silver date restorer for silver. I believe the silver one had ni
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coinnut
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