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I suspect that the US market for PI gold detectors is pretty limited. The ML GPX-5000 has the top end sewed up and there is already the Whites TDI, the infiniun and now the ATX out there. A $1000 light weight detector which could do everything that the Garrett ATX does would sell well enough, but the total sales in North America would be quite limited.
It's not clear that African gold s
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The unit prices aren't adjusted. If you buy 10 items at 99 cents each, your bill is $9.90. If we eliminated the nickel and penny, you'd pay with a $10 and get a dime back. If two of the items were only 97 cents, then your bill would be $9.88 - that would get rounded up to $9.90 as well. If four of the items were 97 cents, your bill would be $9.86 - again you pay $9.90. Once it goe
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have no idea about changes at FT, but Dave Johnson has written openly about succession planning due to his ongoing struggle with ALS (Lou Gherig's disease). Last time I saw, Dave,s title was Chief Engineer. On Carl's linkedin page he gives his new title as Engineering Manager. Impossible to say what that means about who does what.
In any event, Dave and Carl are among the hand
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Carl Moreland has left his position as Engineering Division Manager at Whites Elecrtonics and is now Engineering Manager at First Texas Products. This according to Carl's Linkedin page -
Carl is very experienced in PI detector design, both from his time at Whites and from his role as owner of the Geotech Forum.
First Texas makes a big chunk of their sales in the goldfields of t
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
One effect will be that cash registers with automatic change making dispensers will need re-programming. All prices can remain to be set to,the exact cent, only final sums in cash transactions are subject to rounding up or down to the nearest five cents. The penny remains legal tender.
Coins are on the way out in general. Cash transactions are increasingly in the minority. Card purchases wi
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have a very new but second hand F-75. I am learning what it can do and frankly, a lot of the time I am amazed. It can't split double stars - sorry - split nails from coins quite as good as my GBP, but it has almost 50% more depth if I', patient enough to swing a bit slower and let the Boost Process do it's magic.
Yesterday however, I was nearly panicked when suddenly. It wou
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Kevin - you are a treasure - of sorts - LOL!
Keep it up. I am enjoying the GBP I bought from you and currently it is leading the pack in my little competition to choose what detector or detectors accompany me to Denmark for August and September. If the F-19 offers anything really significant over it by then - well, we'll see.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm sure Dave Johnson added a few terms to our lexicon. Right now the only ones that immediately come to mind are "hots" to denote high output detectors and "singlefreakers" and "multifreakers" to describe single frequency and multifrequency detectors.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Keith, I'll try one tone JE mode. I assume you mean in Discriminate, do you set the Discrim level to "0".
I love the new vocabulary you are building for detecting:
Reactivity
Bleed/Bleedy
Blend/Blendy/Blendable
Sparky
Talkative
Nuanced
On the other hand, NASA Tom seems to have exhausted language as a means of communicating what some detectors are doing! LOL
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Keith,
One tone - in discriminate or AM. My testing with "dummy" set ups on the surface seem to clearly show my GBP clearly better at separation and penetrating masking than my F-75 LTD. I Will try more tests 1 tone.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Nice machine - fair price. The often overlooked feature of the GB2 is the discrimination. Sure, all the pros will tell you that you can' ties it when gold nugget hunting, etc. They are right in a way. It is quite amazing however how well it works to cross check stronger signals. If they are not gold (or sadly aluminum) it won't sound off. Makes all those boot tacks and hot rocks g
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The GBP has no problem with the nail board test. The F-75 is a hair behind, but, of course in boost Process it has considerably more depth. For my trip to Denmark this summer I will probably bring the GBP since it also does well on salt beaches.
I am trying to figure out how to score a gently used GMP in Europe to play with as well.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Right now, the GBP is the only machine I have which passes my own torture test. 3 rusty 12P nails arranged in a triangle touching nose to tail, with a quarter in the middle space. My test scenario involves the target on the surface of our "3bar" fe3O4 soil. The scenario is that you are happily detecting when you get this signal - "what is it - should I dig"? The ideal resu
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I live outside Phoenix - in Gold Canyon - where there is no gold. Nearest placer gold is about 20 miles east of here. Very limited detecting opportunities otherwise compared to places with longer history. I look forward to 2 months in Denmark at the end of the summer. Thanks to my wife's brother moving there, we have a place to hang out and escape the AZ heat for a while.
I am "
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The European metal detector market has exploded in the past 20 years or so. It used to be that the UK was about the only place where a lot of metal detecting went on. I remember when I lived in Norway in the 1990s there was almost nobody who had a metal detector. I would wander around detecting in the parks which were filled with young attractive people topless and that include the females – a
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Keith, you young rascal.
Here I had this original Whites Vision (upgraded to V3i) gathering dust in my garage while I was busy playing with the GBP and new F-75 I have - happy as a clam - then here you go and I have to dust it off!! Well, guess what - although it isn't as deep in the air as my F-75, I have found remarkably few targets in the air - at least since I got out of the Air Forc
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It will be interesting to see what the "big number" display will be in the all metal mode. There's a bit of a trade-off there in the current model – it shows the ground phase which for Gold nugget hunting is kind of handy given the ground balancing method they use. You can see the big number in the middle and compare it to the setting in the right-hand corner and decide if you nee
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
ML painted themselves into a corner by progressively turning an overpriced $3000 gold detector (the SD series) into a ridiculously overpriced $5500 detector as the gold price soared. Now, they would have a hard time cutting their prices. Their GPX 5000 is unchallenged as the best PI gold detector, but even the best needs to find a customer willing to pay the price. Their big new opportunity wa
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
One thing I ought to point out. eBay is an OK place to sell stuff, so is Craigslist, but Craigslist is a GREAT place to buy stuff.
$1200 Stereo Microscope - top quality mitutoyo - $50 - burned out light bulb
Gold Bug 2 - like new with two coils - $280 - ugly masking tape holding coil cover on - otherwise pretty much brand new
Whites Sierra Madre - $50 (needed a $8 switch)
Whites GMT - $250
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Up to now, I had only heard of "look alike" fakes, where the guts are some cheap VLF board. I saw this post about Minelab GPX detectors this morning on an Australian stock Trading Forum discussing Codan, Minelab's parent company, posted by a regular contributor.
"Today i examined a Chinese counterfeit GPX4500 metal detector.
The circuit board was identical to the genuine
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It was beautiful here outside Phoenix at about 12:45 AM local time. Crystal-clear sky brilliant Mars near the moon and the rest of the stars shining brightly because the moon had been dimmed. 2 or 3 coyotes howling in the distance completed the picture. Picture? No of course I didn't take a picture. duh!
Rick Kempf
Gold Canyon AZ
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I advertised the whites GMT on craigslist locally a couple days ago. So far I've had two contacts both via my cell phone number. The first was a guy who lived way on the other side of the Phoenix area – about an hour and a half from me – and he wanted to come over right away and look at the detector. When I explained to him how far it was he said he'd think about it and I guess he lost
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Since I was all set up I want to head in installed the six-inch coils which I have for each machine.
With this coil the goldbug got 12 inches on the nickel and 10 inches on the dime in all metal running at hundred percent which was quiet with this coil. Indiscriminate it got 9 inches on the nickel and 8 inches on the dime.
The F 75 in all metal needed to be turned out to 55% sensitivity an
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I just tried a systematic but of course not scientific test on my driveway with my goldbug Pro and my new F75 limited-edition.
The area around my house is a pretty tough EMI environment. All detectors running in all metal seem to have problems here and have to be operated at less than full sensitivity. I found this to be true with at least 10 different detectors.
I set up my two detectors
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Funny thing about suburbia – some critters seem to prefer above all else. Whitetail deer, raccoons, coyotes, where we live even javelinas seem to think that my backyard is a really cool place.
There's a pesky half-grown female bobcat that I think was probably born within 100 feet of my house who keeps wandering into my garage – can't persuade her to stay out – don't want to hurt
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lytle78
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