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From Minlab's website Treasure Talk...
Why coins sink...
It’s Kinetic Energy.
Kinetic energy from rainfall is the main reason why objects sink in soil. Think about it for a moment...the size of the raindrops and their impact on the ground, and their respective kinetic energy is responsible for soil erosion which causes objects to be continually pounded by such concentrated energy over
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I heard on the radio today China... who we owe a fortune to... wants to raise the interest rate on the money they have loaned us. Reason being our solution to this mess
is to just print more money. Of course this just devalues the dollar even more and hurts all of us. By the end of the year the American dollar may very well be no longer
the world standard. Get ready to get our asses handed to u
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godigit1 Wrote:
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> If you could go a little more on the money I would
> throw one of the New gold bugs into the mix.
> Maybe a used one as they are starting to show on
> some of the forums. One other thought is if your
> hatch back has a spare tire well inside under the
> carpet use it for the detector and leave the
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Re: WOW - 12 years ago
From what I have read those Minero detectors are a scam. And fake videos of them are all over the internet. Lots of people
have been sucked in to buying them.
Buyer BEWARE!
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I have been reading through this thread and about the GPX-5000. As I understand it it is a PI unit? Anyway I Googled it and saw
this YouTube video
Absolutely amazing tho say the least! A small Roman coin at 17" WOW! I am unfamiliar with PI units and have never even seen one.
Aren't they mostly used for water hunting? Being in Nebraska makes me a flatlander. Is the biggest downside
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> Tom..........it was just a rusted lid still
> installed on a old Ball/Mason jar. Not to worry.
I was in a metal detecting hunt (contest) years ago. Back then it was just TR detectors with no discriminators. I came with another
guy and we arrived late. As in 2 minutes before it started.
We didn't get to h
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njnydigger... thank you so much for taking the time to show us what a CZ-3D can really do. Sorry you had to eat a little dirt doing it
Your CZ certainly has no problem smacking that dime. And from the sound of the signal I imagine that dime at 10" would be in big trouble with you at the helm!
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The QZ99s are a keeper. I love the sound quality. Build quality is excellent also. A bit heavy but they really mute background noise well.
We'll see when it's 100deg out if my ears sweat.
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I just got a set of QZ99s. They work great. It was really hot here yesterday and my forehead was sweating but honestly the headphones did make my ears sweat or anything.
I, too, was pondering the SunRay Pros or the Grey Ghosts. You might want to look at this from actual owners...
Just Google it. The SunRays are prone to cable problems and earcup cracking. But sound quality seems to be great
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You folks on this forum are just awesome! I have read and reread your comments. They are just spot on. They bring to light what all of us are facing in this hobby.
Certainly the days of finding silver coins still caught up in the roots of grass are long gone. And finding gold rings commonplace... thanks to aluminum trash. Sure,
we all can go out and find new clad stuff any day. As always it co
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Tom, believe it. That Garrett was one of the deepest detectors I have ever seen. Certainly deeper than the last detector I had, a CZ-7. It has a 1~9" depth meter and I can tell you I saw it pegged more than once on a coin. It has a big loop with it. The deepest coin I ever found, a seated dime, I found with that Garrett using the big loop in Omaha's Bemis park. The oldest park in Omaha.
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Tom your a midreader... find another unit to test against...
A lot happened today. Before I headed out for Mead I called up my brother in law in Omaha. He has an old Garrett Master Hunter 7 ADS which I sold him many years ago, mid to late 1980s.
I found a lot of Indianheads/Seated/Barbers/Merc dimes with that unit. It went deep. Probably deeper than the new Garretts. He hasn't used it f
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Thank you folks for your input. And Tom thank you for the assurance. The warranty card is not filled out or anything. I want to empathize this up front: I love the detector and how it operates.
It's a coin killer. It is just the depth issue that concerns me. Today I will take it to an old park in Mead, Nebraska. It does not get used much nowdays but back in the 1940s my mother worked
at t
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I hunted it a few years back with a CZ-7 and found silver each time and I remember some being 8~9" then, so maybe 9~10" now? The park is 130 years old. With the CZ-3D I have not found a single coin of any type older than 1941 or deeper than 6 3/4". My logic says to me
1940 coins in there are close to 7" deep. I did not find any coins 7" or deeper or older than 1940. Why?
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Well I headed out to the old park again today after church for 3 1/2 hours to give it another go. I found out the park has been in use since the 1880s.
Found 112 coins today. 2 wheat cents... a 1947 @ 6 1/2" and a 1941 at 6 3/4" and a 1946 nickel at 6 1/4" all were carefully excavated and measured.
All the rest were clad/zinc/newer/shallower/etc. I got bored with digging
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Assuming the detector... e.g. CZ-3D (new model) (GB 10/Vol max/Disc 0/Sens 4.5)... is set to it's optimum settings for air testing, in a place with no EMI interference, fresh batteries, headphones, etc. What would you call a maximum distance (clad dime) high tone 'hit' volume/signal integrity wise? Disregard the meter. I am talking about a 'real world' high tone hit you w
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Got the CZ-3D today from UPS and Tom's DVD was enclosed. I put it together the watched the DVD. VERY informative and well thought out!
I am still waiting for the QZ99 headphones to arrive from Amazon but I decided to try it out in my backyard anyway to get a feel for it. My house is about 55 years old.
Didn't feel like tearing the yard up too much so I didn't really dig any iffy
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My old house which I moved from 6 years ago had a small 'test garden' close to a pine tree in the back yard. In 1972 or 1973 I buried a silver dime/quarter/half and a penny and a nickel.They started out at 4" deep. Back then that was pretty deep for detectors. It came in real handy over the years. Before I moved I dug up the quarter and half and they were down pretty darn deep. Cou
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Unfortunately until metal detector technology changes... and as far as I can see it basiclly has not for 20+ years... millions of coins are lost to time. Coins do sink but I tend to think
in my area dead grass and leaves, etc decompose into dirt. And that accumilation, over time, makes coins be deeper. And as Tom was saying 'construction-site happens' can be
a game changer. I used to
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I just ordered a set of QZ99's for a CZ-3D I am getting from NASA Tom. They appear to be a bargain for the price. I seriously consided some Sunray Golds but after a Google search I got turned off.
Way too many complaints about cord problems and earcup cracks (not covered by warranty). I was also looking at some Grey Ghosts but did not really find many reviews about them. Still may buy a
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Here is my line of thinking on this one. That unit I had did not have a discriminater. Just pure all metal mode.
I found this page listing Whites detectors:
I took a quick look through most of the manuals there. About 1/2 way down the page is 'Coinmaster GEB'
It is the only one I saw that was all metal GEB. The rest are TR, TR/TRDISC, GEB/TRDISC, etc (modern detectors)
Like I said
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NEBeachcomber I think you nailed it! Coinmaster 5 Supreme.
And the other one I could not recall the name of was Whites first GEB detector... maybe the first GEB (ground exclusion balance) in the world! It was a Whites Conmaster G.E.B. No discriminator on it whatsoever! All metal only.
Man, did I dig a lot of holes with that bad boy. It did go deep though.
I remember I bought it from Kellyco
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I wanted to see how they try to get your money so I made a fake order up. Here is the final page that comes up...
And as you already imagined no recourse to get your money back if the deal falls through (no credit cards/PayPal/USPS money orders etc)
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I had a 10 1/2" for my old CZ-7. Loved it for open areas that had been hit hard. Found a lot of deep goodies with it. I am buying a new CZ-3D 'validated' from NASA Tom and will be ordering a 10 1/2" coil and some coil covers immediatly.
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Here are a few metal detecting pictures of me back in the early 70s.... I am 63 1/2 now. GOD where did all my hair go?
Here is a Whites Goldmaster 66 TR?? It was brand new! Summer 1973?? and a few coins in my hand. Sold my Whites 63 TR and a crappy Relco BFO to buy it:
Edit: This is not my old 66 TR!!! Got to looking at the picture. Not a 66 TR. What model is it, can you tell? I had a couple
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