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Detecting in South Africa

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3690 on: December 20, 2012, 12:38:10 pm »

Did you make him a stew from the tip?

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3691 on: December 20, 2012, 01:47:45 pm »

You could dry out the chopped off finger and make it into a nose picker keyring Funny

as for your coil, well you need to go on a coil winding course as it looks like you can't even get such a simple job done Shocked

Umm, maybe I should come back to SA to teach you how to do it.... Looks like I will be detecting in the rain on Saturday Angry

but I am not going to miss out on this Roman field...

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3692 on: December 23, 2012, 02:15:11 pm »

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Did you make him a stew from the tip?

Man I laugh about it now but at the time I was looking to see if I still had all my fingers, I think that I did that about ten times, the thing is that it's normally me that has accidents and not the other person. P.S The lawn mower is still on the workbench.

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Umm, maybe I should come back to SA to teach you how to do it

Peter you are more than welcomed to do it for me as it seams that I have two problems, one I can't make a decent coil form and two it appears that I have two left hands (according to you any way)

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3693 on: December 23, 2012, 04:22:29 pm »

Ok, went detecting today to 70 acres of field with medieval furrows Great

that is the good news, the bad news is that I found a few iron objects and that is all as all the Roman stuff was too deep for my detector. Unfortunately these fields have not been plowed for hundreds of years which would normally bring the items to the top, or shallow.... Some of the guys with the Deus machines did very well, with Roman coins and buttons etc. But it was a great day out for me, and I won 3 bottle of booze at the clubs raffle Cheesy

I think next week we are going to a plowed field again Kiss

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3694 on: December 24, 2012, 01:32:02 pm »

Hey dude

Sounds like you're having fun out there. I got the detector working actually it works great but the coil that I made is not to specs so i still have a issue to solve. The problem is my inductance meter needs to be re adjusted and I do not have the correct inductor to do the job, any way I did give it a go and I found what I believe to be some pyrite, I did take a photo of it but with the cell phone as my camera is in the pickup and I'm not in the mood to go there in the rain.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3695 on: December 24, 2012, 06:41:12 pm »

That sure looks like pyrite Great

I have some good samples coming across in our main luggage to the UK Grin

Hope you manage to sort out your coil, will be great for you... I wish I had your detector on Sundays hunt for the depth, and no mineralization at all Wise

so it would of worked great Shocked

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3696 on: December 25, 2012, 07:42:46 am »

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I wish I had your detector on Sundays hunt

I could send you one but you would have to make your own coil.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3697 on: December 25, 2012, 10:15:39 am »

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I could send you one but you would have to make your own coil.

The look on his face when you said that must have been priceless, mate! LoL

You know what I mean. Picture a blank stare, slight dribble at the corner of his mouth and a basic goldfish look overall.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3698 on: December 25, 2012, 02:26:52 pm »

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The look on his face when you said that must have been priceless, mate! LoL You know what I mean. Picture a blank stare, slight dribble at the corner of his mouth and a basic goldfish look overall.

I know GD I'd have loved to have seen it to.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #3699 on: December 26, 2012, 01:44:47 pm »

My face looked like this Shocked

how do you expect me to make a coil? Must I do it in the kitchen or something No no!

this home of ours is small not like the other house Grin

Will be going detecting Saturday, although rain is expected Cheesy

not sure where we are going yet, but it will be fun Great

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