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Steve, I looked up the ferrous hound. It looks interesting. No price that I can see on the website. The site says it works better with a DD coil (I think). I would be nice to see this device in video somewhere.
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I've posted here a few times about modding a CZ to reduce the volumn of the iron tone while leaving the other tones/volumns as is. Someone mentioned about using an inline EQ to do this and I was hesitant to use this method as I didn't want external gadgets hanging onto my detector. So...
What I would like to try is designing a very small EQ volumn level to be connected internally to
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Is there any reason that a normal metal detector could not be designed with the added ability to detect magnetic targets such as the Fisher Fx-3 ferrous locator does? If this were possible there would not be a need for the detector to differeniate between ferrous and non-ferrous in the conventional way which causes iron falsing. Well... many not. You would probably still have some high tone iro
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Beach/Wet Sand...
CZ6a ...you're looking for a machine that will work great in salt envirements with lots of depth, splash/rain resistant, depth meter and excellent at identifying low conductor non ferrous targets from the iron and silver.
Minelab Sovereign ...2nd choice because I like depth meters even if they get fooled sometimes, and the CZ's tones are simply for me to unde
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I would suppose that they are removed by the web master and blacklisted so they can't post again... until they sign up with another member name.
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Scooter, I would think that you could find a good used CZ3D for about the same price as a new AT Pro. The CZ3D is going to be much more able to work in the wet salt sand, but if you get in the water with it, sooner or later you're going to drop it in the water, raise the coil too high and allow water to run down to the control box or get hit by an unsuspecting large wave, and your detector w
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As I was reading therover's post, it came to me that even thou the CZ's can high tone iron at times, I have NEVER had iron give a medium tone! Never...that I can remember.... and this is what I am looking for when beach hunting... the medium tone(s). As a matter of fact, if I get a weak low iron tone on the beach, I will always swipe away some sand and see if the tone moves up into
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Chuck, I had similar questions concerning CZ vs. ML, and will give you a little info as to what I decided and why...
I like hunting the beach but don't get there very often, so I wanted a beach detector that would be easy for me to learn without a lot of work involved. If I hunt in the water, it's very shallow water, at the most below the knees. I prefer the wet sand as that area &q
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Thanks for the replys fellows. As I mentioned in my edit of my original post, I have removed the white coil cover. The detector acted a bit better after removing it. It had a fair amount of sand in it, some of it being black. Being that I'm stuck on the couch for several weeks, it just so happens that not 3 feet from me is a wall receptical that has several battery chargers pluged into it i
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This might be a question for Tom. Having aquired a nice CZ6a I have a few questions. It came with only the 10.5" coil. The coil seems to have a white scuff guard on the bottom. Can this be removed for lighter weight or is it permanently attached? Edit... Found out the answer to that one myself. Finally got it off and it had about 1/2 teaspoon of sand in it... some was black. Retested
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Sorry for the misleading header Pimento. I'll try to edit them. (...was able to edit the heading here but didn't see a way to edit the heading on Geotech)
I was hoping you would join in as your help with the voltage regulator with my other project was great. I guess it may be down to some expermenting and circuit tracing to figure out what to do. Maybe Tom can give some hints or ins
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I would much rather do the modifications inside the housing. I do delicate work all the time. You have to be good to please musicians when you start working on string instruments. I do cavity routing, re-wiring, fret replacing, neck settings, finish work and custom work on instruments in the $10,000+ range in addition to repair work on antiques for the auction house, which is next door to our bus
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Seeker41...
I did but there are some really savy guys here that have helped me before and I wanted to get their opionion. Thanks for the recommendation.
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The CZ6a (as most detectors) will give an iron tone for targets that are too deep for it to reliably identify. Many times when beach hunting, I will dig those weak sounding iron tone signals knowing that they could possibly be something good. My problem is that all the iron surface trash, which comes in at maximum volumn levels, is very fatiquing to my ears. I would like to limit the maxium volum
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Aaron Wrote:
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> One thing about the zincs is they DO deteriate....
Yeah. ...as fast as our economy! They're "self destructing" !
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These things can crush your fingers (or other digits) when/if caught between iron/steel objects. My co-worker was moving two very large speaker magnets once and they snapped togather crushing his fingers. He had to use a screwdriver to pry them apart to get his fingers out! DO NOT use such a thing to retrieve metal objects (such as keys on keyrings) out of the gridded iron covers you find in the
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Yes. I re-read some of the posts and found that it was christopher-ohio that reported less falsing on some units he had owned.
Tom... I think the "properly matched components" you mentioned that are needed for less falsing will understandably be the most difficult variable to change. Have you every changed out components in an attempt to come up with a detector with less falsing?
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Tom... during the calibration of a CZ6a/CZ3D, are there adjustments that can be made to reduce the iron falsing on these units, and if so, what would you lose? ...or maybe a chipset or part that controls in part or whole their ability to do so that can be swapped out till you find one that works better? I ask as one of the members here (I forget at the moment who mentioned it) reported that
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I use to enjoy the hunt when I had plenty of lead in my pencil, but as I grow older (over 60 now) I just do not enjoy getting down on my knees and digging in the hard soil. Yes, I would like a detector that told me what I had found before wearing myself down even more digging up can slaw. I realize I only have a few years left on this earth and I am not interested in using those few years "p
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The floral shovel is a good one to use. I tried Ace hardware while I was in Myrtle Beach but they were out of them so I had to do with a regular long handle shovel. I had a very good long handle scoop but found it a bit wearisome on the hands trying to shake the wet sand thru it. Wet sand sticks togather and you have to shake the scoop with a quick and somewhat forceful shake to get it to go thru
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While detecting at Myrtle Beach NC recently, I felt the need for a non metal shovel for the wet/dry sand. Something that I could dig into the sand with, pull the sand out and run my detector over the shovel with the sand in it to see if I had recovered the target. I had watched a youtube video of a young fellow using a large plastic shovel in this manner but decided his shovel was too large for w
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wurthless... I purchased one of the clear coin holders that you use to display one of each type of US coin in and use it while cleaning my non-valuable coins. You just seperate the two halves and using one of the halves, drop the coin in question in the correct slot, add a drop of dish detergent on it, a wet tooth brush and go to town. It's much easier than trying to hold on to a coin with
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Goodmore... Many folks concider the CZ's to be nail magnets :-) They have a habit of falsing on old rusty nails, giving the high tone of a coin. You will need to learn how to tell if the detector has really detected a good target (coin?) or if it is being fooled into thinking it has detected a good target. I think the concensus is you must circle around a good sounding target to see if it
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I can see the benifits of just digging any and all non-ferrous targets in the sand instead of spending time to figure out if it's something you want to dig or not. It might be different in soil/rocks/roots and such where it usually takes longer to retrieve a target. I might dig several targets in the sand in the time I would dig one target in dry land soil. I think the CZ platform is the w
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Rover, your mod looks like a good job there. I can see what you mean when you said you cut off a section of the original shaft and mounted it to your straight shaft.
What I had envisioned is making a new bottom plate for the CZ3D box that would mount to the top of the CZ21 grip handle as the CZ21 box does. I have a milling machine and thought about using a 1/8" piece of aluminum or so and
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