I'm a big fan of the GARRETT ADS DEEPSEEKER and specially the later Master Hunter ads 3 model with the led's to show you the mode you are in.I have strip down lots of them is one model you can take all the rivets out put new stainless steel ones replace the screws clean the dust and even give them a new kill-rust green paint-job.They were build to last,not like the new plastic ones.Why all this work you might say.Because if tuned properly in manual and with the right coil,specially the ADS three master hunter with an excellent stable threshold and solid meter reading(not like some new ones that jump left and right) they still beat the crap on some new models.(Unless you spend thousands on a Minelab.)Mine can pick up on VLF and ground balance properly on creeks with a lot of black heavy soil a half a gram of alluvial nuggets at 4 or five inches with the small coil and up to the ten inch coil.Since I have all the coils up to the 14 inch special heavy coil with very long lead and rope to go under water up to 30 feet.But on the small coil with the 4 to five inches is just enough to then go through the whole signal spot with a Garrett's anty gravity pan to get the deeper stuff.Amazing a lot of models this days missed that small size so I can still go were detectors have been and pull out all this small stuff and at $50 dollars a gram that's not bad not to mention the powerful audio and detection on larger items.Over my 20 years is the model that has found more than any other in parks school playgrounds beaches.Coins,rings money the lot.You say is heavy,yes all my detectors are hip-mounted and the Garrets ADS are so easy to do so by copying the small bracket that mounts on the two top screws and by mounting another bracket on the small shaft coming out of the control box.You can mount a sling around your waist and another over your shoulder and you have a control box that not only will take the weight but now if you are in water you have both hands free by putting the shaft with the coil down and no accidents like some people do when they get excited by the signal but forget the detector is not waterproof.Regarding the rest of the set up.Because older Garret ts you can get just about any spare parts.You get another full handle like the one on the control box,that fits very nicely inside the bottom shaft nice and tight and you can even put the armrest that was made to go on the handle.So now you have a control box hip-mounted a shaft with the coil and handle with a comfortable armrest to balance any coil.(hope I'm not boring anyone)But last, again spare part or make it yourself you get another lead to join the coil to the control box.I have made one female four pin to male four pin.And for the five pin coils groundhogs that came out with five pins and some other models with no difference because there are only four wires and the fifth pin does nothing other than to look good.The wiring is simple because with the eye glass you can see the numbers one to five and the colors are mention somewhere by Garrett himself from the new ones to the old ones Red and Black are the same is only the other Green or White or Bare or Shield but following the numbers you can't go wrong.I have a four pin to a five a four to a four a five to a five and a five to a four.No problem using any coil.For those people looking for coils gives you a lot more of them out there.The only weakness people say about this model is the battery tray,WHY because you left cheap batteries in the detector for months and months and they leak and ruin your contacts who's fault is it? But they still sell them today with the new sealed way.The best way to practice at home with your ground balance or discrimination.Is get a small glass flask of black-soil or heavy mineralization and go over the coil while adjusting your ten turn ground control until you hardly get any change on the tune threshold.Mine I have added a pulverized rusty nail mixed in the flask with the soil and this Garrett can balance it out to the point of putting it on top of the coil with no change and going over with a gold ring or nugget and get a nice signal.Anyway before the post gets to long I hope I have helped or intrigue some people since the thread says "Does any one still use The Garrett ADS"This is a pic of my best model one with the led's.
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