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Harold,ILL. Wrote:
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> Where can You get the 303 stuff at a regular Walma
> rt?
West Marine has it where I am but it's a little expensive.
Wal-Mart has it online. Some locations might stock it.
I use it on everything so I recently bought a gallon from Zoro online for $44 including shipping. That works out to only $5.50
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Badger in NH
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I remember reading about using tooth paste to clean clear plastic way back in the '70s. Alcohol might have worked as well to remove the ink.
The best restorer/protector that I have found for all types of plastic is 303 Aerospace Protectant. It's good for plastic, vinyl or rubber. It has UV sunblock in it. I wipe down my machines with it every few months and they come out looking bett
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BeeMan458 Wrote:
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> New poster here. In my opinion, questions like
> this are intended to bring out the worst, not the
> best.
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> "Another POOR detecting show that will give all of
> us a " black-eye " !"
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> Which qualifies the question as being prejudicial
> and leading. (I'
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rapidroy7 Wrote:
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> That is bad, not saying it's what happened here
> but at least twice one last week, ive come back 2
> discover my own carefully replaced plug, dug out
> and the dirt scattered! It is horrifying and makes
> you angry while you try to recover what was lost!
> It's usually the shallower plu
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Badger in NH
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There are many things that have hurt the hobby and contributed to the banning of metal detectors over the years. Television is just the latest thing.
Detecting on TV is the biggest problem the hobby has ever faced because it's shown nation wide. The people making the shows didn't think it through enough. They were too busy thinking of detector sales, paychecks and how cool they are
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dewcon4414 Wrote:
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> So our main compaint seems to be bringing in NEW
> people to the hobby?
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The main complaint should be that detecting on TV brings the hobby to everyones attention. People see it, they talk about it, they misunderstand it, they judge it.
A lot of people who tune in may have no interest in ever goin
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Badger in NH
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Many of us love the hobby and want to protect its future so that we might hunt for the rest of our lives. We see these shows as bad publicity and destructive in the long term. I have no complaints about the content of the shows. The problem is that they are on TV and aimed at people who don't metal detect. The profits are short term. It's as if they know the hobby is going to die and t
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ozzie Wrote:
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> I think he got a job....and, I think we're all a
> little jealous.
That brings up a good question. What do you suppose they got paid for doing these shows?
How much money would we sell out for? I might consider doing a show for $50,000 but that would still be a lot of guilt to carry around. Better make it $
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Badger in NH
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Lawrenzo Wrote:
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> Keep up the good work Mike and have fun your show
> is cool.
Tell Mike that if he needs the money that badly, he should go get a job.
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Badger in NH
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AMCJAVELIN Wrote:
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> I liked it better than the other two, I thought it
> was kind of dirty the Chicago team dumping the
> modern pennies in front of the other teams, if I
> had somebody do that to me i'd make sure i'd have
> coal and magnet frgments dropped for them LOL!
Yeah, that's just what we need,
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Badger in NH
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The rotten apples are the ones making the shows and the sell-outs who star in them.
I've been watching Ron's videos for years and most of us know what a celebrity Larry is.
I'd love to watch the show online but there is absolutely nothing good about it being on TV. It's obvious the people involved with the show don't care about the future of the hobby. It's a
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Badger in NH
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Why watch detecting on TV when you can go outside and and do it yourself?
Detecting doesn't belong on television for all to see. There is plenty on YouTube if anyone wants to watch it.
The last thing this hobby needs is promotion. There are a lot of people out there with the delusion that anyone can just go out and find artifacts and it's ruining the hobby because too many refuse
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Badger in NH
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Let that be a lesson to all of us.
Just because someone tells you detecting isn't allowed doesn't automatically mean they are telling the truth.
It pays to check the actual laws.
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Badger in NH
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I think most people buy the Gold for its unmasking abililty. It's also good for picking up certain targets that other machines can't detect. If you are hunting around a lot of iron where targets are masked or looking to get those last few targets from a site, the Gold would be a good choice.
The Gold is a high frequency detector. It is very sensitive to the lower conductor targets th
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Badger in NH
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If the serial numbers match, that should properly identfy the coil, although we still have to trust that the worker wrote the correct information on the box.
I can just see the person thinking, oops, did I write T2? It was supposed to say F75. Oh well, too late now.
At least the numbers do match. I'll do some tests soon and then I'll be more sure if there is a problem.
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Badger in NH
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Isn't that 7 gallons of soil idea only for concentric coils?
DD coils have a narrow concetrated beam. That's why they separate so well. They might only process about one fifth that of a concentric coil.
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Badger in NH
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The way I set my sense is, if I hear any feedback from the ground, I lower it just to the edge of where it goes away. It just feels like it's getting the best performance that way.
Most of the time it's at manual 28 at my fields. Norrmal range is 26 to 30.
I should do more testing though. That's the only way to be sure.
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Badger in NH
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Seems like my crosshairs and numbers haven't worked for years. I get a good signal but the cursor freezes up. Dewcons explaination of screen freeze and high sensitivity makes sense.
I usually run my sensitivity near maximum.
I thought my machine might be broken. It's good to know that all it might be is high sensitivity. This doesn't matter much to me because I hunt by ton
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Badger in NH
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I use the 15" SEF on it and it works fine but it always seems that the 13" Ultimate gives me trouble. As I said, I haven't really confirmed if there is something wrong with the coil.
My original question was, how can you tell which detector an Ultimate coil is designed for? All it has is a serial number, nothing else.
Still haven't heard back from Detech.
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Badger in NH
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Yeah Art, I did run into the ProPointer problem.
I made a special sheath for it out of tin foil and duct tape that works great. The big end of the ProPointer sticks out about an inch so I can get it in and out of the sheath easily. Now I can just carry it in my pouch or anywhere on my body.
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Badger in NH
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C'mon Steve, it's not that cold. Old Orchard beach is no different than Hampton. The water may be 50 in early June but it warms up to nearly 70 degrees by August. I know that sounds cold to a lot of people but it's tolerable and people spend a lot of time playing in the water.
Sea temperature range for Hampton Beach.
If I thought it was worth it, I'd be out hunting the
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Badger in NH
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ARTWI Wrote:
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> I have the ultimate for my F75SE and it says only
> F75 on the box. It works fine for me. What
> problems are you having? When I found it on
> Kellyco it only said F75 so I asked if it was for
> the F75SE and was assured it was.
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> ArtWI
That's good to know. If they put the right coil in
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Badger in NH
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I should have mentioned, I bought the Ultimate coil for the T2SE.
The box the coil came in says it's for the T2.
This has me wondering, is the T2 Ultimate coil compatable with the T2SE?
BTW Kevin, the Gold Bug you sold me is working great.
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Badger in NH
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I have an Ultimate 13" coil that I suspect might be the wrong one for my machine. There is nothing on the coil to identfy what detector it's made for beyond the Serial Number. I sent a message to Detech but haven't heard back yet.
The cable plug fits at least three different brands. Is there a way to indetify these coils? Has anyone else run into this problem?
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Badger in NH
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Water hunters are a very rare sight at New Hampshire and Maine beaches. I saw my first one ever last summer and I've been beach hunting for 17 years.
I think it's mostly because of our fairly wide tidal range. We occasionally wade out to our knees but there's really no need to actually get wet. There might be a few items lost out in the water at low tide, but it's hardly w
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Badger in NH
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I've never understood why so many water hunters use PIs.
In tough hunting condtions where you have limited mobility, you can't see what you're doing, waves occasionally pounding you, I would think you would want all the Target ID help you can get.
And the funny thing is, most PIs are waterproof. How come nobody makes a PI unit for regular wet sand use where you don't n
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Badger in NH
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I think both the F75 and T2 are finicky machines. If you have sites where they will work it's great. I love my T2 SE but there are a lot of sites here in NH where it just won't perform well. It can be a very noisy unit in certain areas and there's nothing you can do about it. In those cases I just switch to the Explorer SE.
If you get a site where you can crank the settings to m
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Badger in NH
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