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I would think that he just had it to knock out the pliers and those pliers are carbon steel like most tools made today and are very easy to reject compared to say a pair of older pliers made of hardened steel....
When he added the ring he touched it to the pliers and electrically increased the conductivity ever so slightly probably just moving it into an accepted pixel....
Space the ring a
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Keith Southern
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they had the walk through's and the hand wand's by Garrett.....Can't convince them to step up the security Tom!!!!!!!
Just Kidding.....
Keith
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Keith Southern
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very heavy machine for sure.....more of a specialized piece of equipment for ....I think it would be geared for a cache hunter from the little time i played with it..?????
I don't see myself needing one in the near future...
Keith
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Keith Southern
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Thanks for the offer Tom!!! It was last minute.....me and my Brother in-law rode over one day mid week while the family rested....Really wanted to see the shuttle on the pad but thats how it goes....
I'll bet the coast along the complex does contain some great treasure's if the security is that tight....
Thanks again for the offer and have a good Father's day!!
Keith
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Keith Southern
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Thanks for the report.....I like the way you said you can speed up the response!!!!! depth is not that big a deal when working iron....I like also you can jump freq's around on the fly...
Are you listening Minelab?? I still say the x-terra coil freq change is the biggest sales strategy ever....I know that's the way the platform is designed but they could of went a different route a
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Keith Southern
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Spent a week in Orlando and 5 days at Disney world with the family...Man did I spend some cash!!!
But the Kids had a blast!!!!!
Got over to the Cape on Wed...And all of the luck we were heading out to the launch pad to see the Atlantis and the bus got a call on the radio telling us they were fueling and no one was allowed in the area!!!!!! Man that stunk!!!!! they said they would give us a
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Keith Southern
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Glad you are enjoying the AT it is a lot of bang for the buck......
I would of been happier if they would of left off the waterproof design and offered that as an option.......
I believe they will work off this platform and there may well be some sort of land unit later with the less cumbersome coil connector's and headphone connector's
I have heard of a relic machine in the wo
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Keith Southern
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the newer digital designs lack nuance the older analog came by " NATURALLY"
I hope as the designs progress they will become more evolved in the audio....
The At-Pro offers some great audio for hunt by ear while using dual tone's.....
If Garret can offer such features they must be using some kind of audio amp/chip that is doing the magic......since there other designs li
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Keith Southern
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instead of the small round and large round they offer ....get into some Bi-Axial configuration's ....
Still think there could be some tuning done to the current designed coil for added performance....
Keith
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Keith Southern
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I believe they are the sole importer here in the state's///I may be wrong???
Not sure what the performance gains would be on a P.I.??
thanks
Keith
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Keith Southern
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similar and has more depth to boot.....The 10x12 really gets down deep....while still retaining good sens to smaller target's....
the 12x15 will probably be my next purchase.....for the open area's since the 8x6 does so good as an all rounder main staple coil....the 12x15 will be for the truly deep target's...
not sure why but the 15x18 cost like 3 times more???? must be some
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Keith Southern
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I see they are expanding there offering's ...for many models know....even have them for the Tesoro line......Would like to see what one would do on a Tejon.....
Keith
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Keith Southern
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that is a very good price on the coil for sure....
the coil is the type coil you will use 90% of the time on a machine...perfect size most application's....
Wish more people would get them and test them ....
there not gimmick's....
Enough people give some feedback and maybe we will see further advancement's...
Keith
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Keith Southern
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for any insight the test may of gave you.....
That's the great thing about the forum we all benefit from each other.....
And if I may add the 6x8 is very sensitive to the small item's maybe better than the eclipse...
One scenario that comes to mind is the .22 hull.....the woods are full of them ....even more so than the shot gun hull.....But in bad ground I dig very few of th
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Keith Southern
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and investigate target's....that the discriminator wont signal on....
Some of the better bad ground machine's in North Georgia I have found are The machines that offer a true all metal threshold based mode....and learn how the VDI number's in disc mode will be skewed if you rely on them.....Look for machines that offer the DD coil as option or standard...
Your F-75 will hunt
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Keith Southern
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sometimes one would jump to 76 or 74 but it was with either coil but they were for the most part staying at 75.....there's no re-bar in the floor( I wish there was for the floor is starting to crack!!!) It a dug basement no back fill just red clay below it...
the brick balances at 88......
Now if I balance to the brick the eclipse response does improve when testing but it's sti
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Keith Southern
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I hunt in a lot of mineral and DD's are a must...but as the art of coil design advance's...even older DD's are becoming less desirable...here's a perfect example of night and day difference between 2 coil's....
I am using the MXT-PRO for the demo...A great bad ground machine....
The first coil is the White's DD 6x10 elliptical
The second coil is the 8x6 S.E.F.
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Keith Southern
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Thank's for posting....
I notice the middle of the country is very conductive ....but is also where the big farm field area's are...never hunted the area's but bet the soil is very loamy...
Thanks for posting this....
Keith
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Keith Southern
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it's a very swampy creek now days but notice what it say's......the map is from 1890.....it has lots of words on there like Iron pyrite.....and Garnet's.....Copper.....
now you know how bad my ground mineralization is........
one thing I have never done is look for gold with a metal detector....I have panned it ......
Anyone think it's worth checking out with my MXT
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Keith Southern
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I have an old copper mine here close to my house (2 mile's away) .....is it something that would be on top of the ground or in veins down deep?
The mine closed in the early 1900's ....
I have seen float copper from up north Michigan area...usually pretty large pieces with a nice green patina. scraped along by the glacier's...Not sure what it would look like down this way?
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Keith Southern
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site so I could maybe put it to some use after some electrical storm's for detecting purposes...
Yes weather is very amazing and it does interact with the detector's in some way I am sure of this.....
thought the chasers was pretty cool when I stumbled upon it...
Hate to see peoples lives disrupted by the storm's...I know my N.GA area has been hit hard recently .....
Ke
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Keith Southern
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has an interactive map ....Just click on the cars and watch the live action....It helps to zoom in to county level so you can see all the cars chasing...pretty dang busy right now as I type..
Keith
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Keith Southern
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but I some time's notice little nuances to thing's and why it is hardly noticeable I have picked up on a certain sound on the deeper target's with the open design vs the same epoxied design on certain models and one was the Minelab's for sure....
that 8 inch coin search coil on the sovereign had the sweetest sound on deep high conductor's that the later coils would not
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Keith Southern
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I dont know myself....... I tried a black 1050 coil on an explorer 2 and it did not seem like the beige coil but the machine was not exactly like the XS so there may of been the difference ?
The slimline coil I did not care for....the Pro coil I like better than that one...
Not really of no help ....
Keith
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Keith Southern
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and alway's wanted to try one....
then the designer passed away and since it was a 1 man operation that sort of deflated my hope's....
he had a few different model's...And I believe there is even a video of him on you tube demonstrating one maybe the XD-17 the 17 meaning 17Khz....
what it had going for it in what i could find was it was a basic analog type circuit but had
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Keith Southern
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not that the Pro coil is a slouch but the 1050 I had on my Explorer XS seemed like the perfect match for the FBS technology.....
I have used Pro coil's and they work great but they are different to me in some way's
Why did I like the older 1050? Seemed like better overall performance ......great depth ....Smooth running .....BETTER AUDIO on deeper target's ....
Now here i
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Keith Southern
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really handles the bad ground well ...In my opinion it works better for depth in clay than an F-75....
needs to be ran on pro mode iron audio on and just set to eliminate nail's ....Good solid machine for the money and has great separation ...not the lightest but not the heaviest ....
Another option is to get the MXT but it add's weight but works real well in clay...
Explorer
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Keith Southern
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I was in part 2 of my reply to Dan... where he mention's in his post about poor workmanship.....I was talking about the mechanical aspect being O.K but the digital aspect seems to suffer more frequently than they used to and most chips and diodes and capacitor's etc etc are built oversea's....
I could not tell you if the poor Q.C. component's cause EMI???? Theoretically
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Keith Southern
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