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Welcome from New Mexico.   

You may want to rethink the battery arrangement your talking about.

Have a look around.

We have tons of info within these walls.

Oh, Here is the manual for your detector. :   

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Yea, I build what I can.

Working with Eugene on a version of the 20Khz LoBo detector.

We have tons of good stuff going on here.

I went camping out last night at a motel because the hot water here did the dead bug thing and was getting Crusy.

LOL



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What ya talking about There Silverdog.

Yea a bit lame but a detector for sure.

Running at 15 KHz they will surprise ya.

Someone gave me one because he could not make it work.

Ground Balance it  and it would find a dime at 7 inches no problems.


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Homefire: No hot water is a pain- were you at all tempted to just keep on driving past the motel, out of town, and wave the wand at first light??  Hope you don't have to sell off some dets to get it fixed ;}

The Lobo project sounds interesting [I never met that one]. Are you fine-tuning it of souping it up so it hardly recognises itself. I should be that motivated 'n tutored.

IF my MD is dead-bug then I have an attractive chassis for the next det. maybe a SurfPI.

The analogue units sound interesting-  apparently a great deal of discrimination may be done at and between the ears. I'm half deaf and half of half deaf so I would probably walk into trees, guardians of the law or passing trains while following the squeaks.

Stephen



 

Posted on: March 14, 2012, 09:12:43 PM

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Good to 'meet' you Silverdog.

You have sort-of read my mind on the lack of use for the MD. They may have given it up because the meter movement was well and truly puka-rooed, the (centre) pole piece will flop around with very little encouragement and jam the coil so there is no deflection to back-up the tone changes. Perhaps it is the user rather than the machine that has failed; anyway I should have the time to get it running in the next week-or-so. There is one resistor next to a battery connection that appears to have heated up the board but resistor is not blistered - will see. If smoke is all it is good for then smoke it is!

I'll keep going this-a-way for a bit as probably it is a good time to get to know machines and detecting before getting too involved in [probably less than ideal decisions for] more advanced stuff.

This can only get me into more animated conversations with my other 3/4! I often cop remarks for stopping to collect spanners, pliers and the occasions $20 note looking lost on the road. Maybe I should start with a large magnet under the car?

Starting with coin-shooting / aluminium {that's nzinglish rather than amglish [;>  } recycling around parks and beaches, what would your preferences be for getting your nephew into the fun?

Looking forward to catching up you a bit further down the pull-tab trail.

Stephen





Posted on: March 14, 2012, 09:36:10 PM

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BitburgAggie, hello.

Thanks for the greetings from AZ.

I am a little concerned that if I get too keen I will maybe even be "keen" enough not to ensure it is inert before digging. Imagine chasing around the steel toecap of a guardian of the law!!

What do you use for cutting plugs? My rather battered 'n very blunt WWII bayonet had been considered but may not be appreciated for its utilitarian virtues!!!!  My garden trowel will probably be the first household casualty in this new-found fun.

In places there is so much iron that the concentration a bit below the surface has formed an almost impervious [iron pan] layer which may mellow a bit when saturated and is a real challenge to dig through, manually. What I came across when putting in fence posts and walls varied in thickness from an inch to over four in the space of a metre or two. that town is a looong way from home, now, so it's no immediate challenge. Wonder how iron-pan 'detects'.







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Good photo BA - my trowel is stainless and quite rugged but without serrations. Something with an extending handle would be ideal here as sometimes I might feel tempted to use the wand to help hoist myself back up to vertical. Sigh!

Have always enjoyed a heavier than lighter tool, whether hammer or spade. I figured out years ago not to be hanging on too tightly to my end just before the business bit starts slowing down. I have a really long and narrow forged steel spade but it's too heavy to lug around on the off-chance.

Maybe someone makes mistakes at their  end & we get the same Ames as over there

The other device looks interesting, seems to have quite a heavy head- good for clouting the hard bits, does that have any particular name? Pity there are not aluminum magnets for a lot of that junk. I have a geologists 'hammer' somewhere so that will probably do.

How long will it take me to find enough things to fill up my big enough day-pack? even before I have all the essentials which should only take up half the space! No doubt what gets left behind was essential and should be replaced while everything taken home safely should never have left home.   One thing I could save weight on is taking a 1 metre dressmaking tape rather than a ruler.

Do you still turn up a few of the metal bottle tops that were crimped onto beverage bottles? or have they mostly rusted away. I have seen a lot of other things but not them.

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