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  2. GoodAmount
    I can relate to your experiences with low quality 3D prints. The industry has come a long way in the last few years though, with some automotive manufacturers even using it for production parts. Yes, it does rely on the correct plastic being used, but also on the printing process (FDM, SLS, SLA, etc) and quality of the 3D printer to get high quality parts. Not all 3D printers are created equal and not all people using them know how to get the best out of them. The product also needs to be designed appropriate for the printing process and oriented correctly in the machine to make best use of layer adhesion (which is why I've designed this in multiple parts to get the grains running in the right directions appropriate to force). It is worth using a reliable 3D printing service if you don't have your own machine and you have to pay retail prices, but the big advantage for people with 3D printers is that if a part breaks you just print another one. But yes, you definitely want to design parts for best longevity in the first place. In cases like this though it allows us to innovate quickly, testing functionality without investment risk and finding alternatives in an open, distributed and collective way. I'd be keen to see others riff on the design and improve it over time. But at the very least, it's a good way to test whether a non-conductive lower shaft will meet your prospecting requirements - especially if you have your own 3D printer at home. It's free (except for material cost, which is around $2-5)!
  3. Steve Herschbach
    What I posted is the livesteam page I'm looking at, it's a screenshot. Looks like it corrects for local time so that would be Reno, NV time. I added a note on my original post noting Reno time. Actually will be at 10am "Garrett time" in Garland Texas, two hours different than me, so 8am here. Here are other times from Garrett's Facebook page:
  4. Tony started following Garrett Vortex Intro 1.5 Hours Long?
  5. Tony
    Steve.....8 am ?? It was 11pm "Garrett" time ? *** Ok...the invite has the correct time and not the Garrett Vortex landing page ***
  6. Tony
    Full credit to that design...but I had some 3D printed stuff and the sun and saltwater took it's toll really quick. Now this may have something to do with the actual plastic product used in my situation so I don't really know much else. This was some years ago so maybe the 3D printed stuff is better(er).
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  8. The Lama
    If one doesn't like the color they can swap out the arm cuff for a black one.
  9. TX Todd started following Gerry in Idaho
  10. Vladimir 06660
    Проверил, с какого расстояния детектор видит нижний стержень CTX : Fisher F5 с катушкой 15 дюймов .......40 см. Quest Q20 с катушкой 9/11".......32 см, Срочно меняю .... Удочку подобного диаметра я уже купил.
  11. Lethal
    Video is from Phasetech.
  12. Lethal
    I can confirm that the 9" Elite is one of the best coils for AlgoForce. Outstanding sensitivity and performance.
  13. abenson
    Geez probably will have to catch that after it's over. Going to be hard for me to dedicate 1.5 hours on a Tuesday morning. I'm really hoping Garrett hits a home run on this one.
  14. GoodAmount
    Just letting everyone know I've uploaded the 3D printed Nox900 lower-shaft extender I designed to the downloads page. I know everyone is super keen for Steveg's Kevlar lower shaft, but this might suffice for now for some people. I've been using it for a few days and it's proving to be quite robust and pleasant to use, particularly when swapping coils. I'd be interested to hear other's thoughts about it, so let me know how it works out if you make one. I'm thinking I'll make a Manticore version too. I don't own one, but I'll pay a visit to Miners Den and get a lower shaft for reference. Anyway, I hope this helps a few folks out. 🙂
  15. Tony
    Hopefully that is the case but I know first hand that UV breaks down many resins.....probably got a lot to do with location but over here in Western Australia, the UV is quite intense. Once the resin polymer starts to break down then the raw Kevlar may be vulnerable. I'm probably now guilty of "paralysis by analysis".......damn it I want a titanium lower just to be cool 😎 Maybe, I'll get a Manticore clevis or two and then go from there. At the end of the day, we will all be covered by a fit for purpose product.
  16. Chase Goldman
    Based solely on the imagery, it just looks like a really unsafe detector. Pick your adventure: death by tsunami drowning, death by tornado blunt force trauma, or death by lightning electrocution.
  17. GoodAmount started following Nox 900 Carbon Fibre Lower Shaft Non-Conductive Extension
  18. GoodAmount
    More information about "Nox 900 Carbon Fibre Lower Shaft Non-Conductive Extension"

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    The Nox 900 shaft extension was designed to alleviate issues caused by having a conductive carbon fibre lower shaft bolted directly to the coil. This is particularly important for gold prospectors who are experiencing knock sensitivity when laying the shaft flat against the coil during target recovery, but it may also have benefits during the target search, especially when working tight rocky terrain where the coil is constantly rotated relative to the shaft. You will need to buy a 40mm and 60mm M8 nylon hex bolt and 2 nuts - I would suggest just buying two 60mm bolts and cutting them down to size. These are the ones I sourced - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003554528145.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.138c674cdkh3Wv&algo_pvid=949ce8d2-8033-47ba-8524-5b8b03a83770&algo_exp_id=949ce8d2-8033-47ba-8524-5b8b03a83770-0&pdp_npi=4%40dis!AUD!24.72!12.12!!!16.16!7.92!%402103011017185920473694307e26fe!12000026266634715!sea!AU!136322599!&curPageLogUid=mOIvLzytoqPb&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A For each assembly, you will need to 3D print 1x shaft extension, 1x shaft extension clamp, 1x clevis nut seat and 3x bolt thumbwheels. To assemble, glue the clamp to the rear of the extender (preferably with epoxy), making sure that the area that mates with the stock shaft clevis is in the right orientation facing upwards. Seat the 60mm M8 bolt into the clevis nut seat and the 40mm bolt into one of the thumbwheels. Seat an M8 nut into the other two thumbwheels. It's helpful to epoxy the bolts and nuts in place, but being carful not to get glue in the threads. Remove the rubber inserts from the stock carbon-fibre-lower-shaft clevis and place them in the 3D printed clevis. Insert the clevis-nut-seat/bolt into the stock carbon-fibre-lower-shaft clevis and use one of the thumbwheel/nut assemblies to tighten in place. Snap the shaft-extension assembly to the stock lower shaft and thread the 60mm bolt through the clamp and tighten with the other thumbwheel/nut assembly. Attach your favourite coil. Happy hunting! Edit: Creative Commons licence - CC BY-NC-SA
  19. Daniel Tn
    A lot of the early stuff is a product of them listening to the forum users. Keith Southern was one of them they tapped into for info and he was a big fan of adjustable tone breaks and iron breaks. He especially favored detectors in the teen freq ranges...that 13 to 19 kHz range was his favorite and they seemed to cater to that range. Particularly with the Fors Relic detector. The T2 and F19 were two of Keith's favorite detectors and Nokta kinda blended features of the two for Keith with the Racer and Racer 2. I may be mis-remembering but wasn't the S rod design part of Keith and Steve H's preference? Those earlier days, that seemed to be a big back and forth...everybody had what they considered to be their favorite design and detector, and just wanted a little tweaking here or there done to it. Nokta was putting out machines faster than people could adjust to them.
  20. Steve Herschbach
    At least that’s what it says at the sign up page, Runtime 1h 30m. With that much time there is hope we really will learn a lot about the Vortex, and better yet maybe there really is a lot for Steve & Steve to talk about. I admit I’m curious as I actually think this is one of the most important release announcements in Garrett’s history. The AT Max is not a bad detector, but you could almost hear the collective disappointment when it came out. Fans really were looking for a new flagship multi. Then came Apex, and again, not the high end machine people are expecting from a company as old and established as Garrett. Third time is a charm I guess but after all this buildup they better deliver this time. Third time at bat Garrett, time for a home run. Less than 37 hours away. I have to think a YouTube copy will be posted immediately after the presentation for those that miss the live stream. I guess they hooked me though since I did register and will be watching. Garrett Vortex Latest News Experience the Vortex - Streaming on Jun 18 · 8:00 AM (Reno, NV) · Runtime: 1h 30m Join us on June 18th for another exciting announcement from Garrett Metal Detectors! CEO Steve Novakovich and Marketing Director Steve Moore will guide you through this interactive event. Be sure to enter our contest for the chance to win a free detector too! Details are in the registration form!
  21. Norvic started following Not Enough Time To Do It All!
  22. Norvic
    LR you are following SSs lead some time back, crikey we are becoming a mob of domesticated pussies.......😉
  23. phrunt
    I brought that up as well in another thread but Steveg assured me that's the fiber itself, the tube is made using the fiber and resins so the problem with UV and water resistance doesn't matter. Fibreglass does seem good though, and has changed a lot over the years, the fiberglass you can get now is nothing like the fibreglass of yesteryear.
  24. Tony started following Beach Hunters And Carbon Fibre Rods
  25. Tony
    I haven't posted any comments regarding the whole CF issue (triggered in certain conditions) but I will probably grab one or two Kevlar lower rods instead of CF. The issue doesn't really affect me as I beach hunt and the coil and lower CF shaft are essentially "as one"......no coil manipulation when locating targets, etc. The only time there is any coil movement is when sometimes adjusting the coil angle by foot. I may as well buy Kevlar as backups as I am covered for scenarios that may present problems if I go nugget hunting with the Manticore. I am 100% happy using the CF lower for the beach hunting I do.... with a "fixed" coil and a lower CF shaft (typically at 45 degrees). I just hope Steveg doesn't have to worry about another thread of 30 pages which likely gave him some sleepless nights. There was an awful lot of information to get through. Want to hunt nuggets with the Manticore = Use a non-conductive lower shaft Want to hunt on the beach (not water) with the Manticore = The stock CF lower shaft will be fine (but be aware that any coil movement/manipulation relative to the lower CF shaft may generate a response). Now.....I just Googled Kevlar resistance to UV and and to some extent saltwater. Maybe I'm missing something but it ain't pretty ??? Carbon fiber would appear to be superior to Kevlar in two important areas of water and UV resistance. But yes, Kevlar wins the conductivity category. Good ol' fiberglass does the best overall.
  26. Zaj56
    Did the dealer do the update or did you? I'm glad it all worked out!
  27. phrunt started following Reinforcing the "Dig Everything"
  28. phrunt
    Cointopia was a great learning experience for me, very little trash, probably 20 coins to every bit of junk. I really got to hone my silver finding ability by having so many silver targets in the wild to recover. The more you dig targets, the more you learn how they behave, what they sound like and so on. I got to the point I was always confident of the coin I was about to dig before digging it, and I was rarely wrong or surprised. Sadly jewellery is not my strong point at this stage, either people don't lose it or I suck at finding it. I quickly learnt I was the first to detect those sites, and oddly enough detecting is such a rare hobby here I can pretty confidently go to plenty of places and be the first to ever detect them. IT's grown in popularity lately in the big cities, but once away from them into the small regional towns you can be the first still to this day to run a detector over the hot spots. It's a shame your trip was so short and you didn't get to experience some of this stopping in at the many places you drove past to swing a coil, you would have found your own cointopia for sure, guaranteed. If I can dig it all in places I do, hard in parkland type places and certainly not in sports field areas, at least in gold areas the rabbits dig more holes than I ever could so the damage I cause is very minimal by comparison, so I can dig dig dig and I do. I'm not sure if you wandered down to the lakefront beach in the heart of Queenstown Mitchel, but it's very likely I was the first to detect that only a couple of years ago, if I wasn't the first the person that went, the person before me wasn't very good, as they left a lot of very old coins in the ground and over $100 worth of $1 and $2 coins that I was able to get my first time detecting it.
  29. Digalicious
    I'd be elated if any manufacturer focused solely on discriminating between gold and aluminum. It's not like it has to be anywhere near 100% accuracy either, because right now we're basically at 0% accuracy. What would even suffice for now, is a change in technology that was good enough to warrant the introduction of a gold probability meter.
  30. phrunt
    Heard that same thing from the locals here in our mild soils that have ventured in that direction. We should all be rooting for Garrett, crazy not to, the more competition in the marketplace the better. We are hopefully on the final leg of the wait now to see what they can deliver.
  31. Ridge Runner
    I just turned on the TV on a all western station and in capital letters was VORTEX under it it said words and pictures . Now I can say I’ve seen that word more than one place. I’m really wanting to see it Tuesday of this coming week. Hopefully it’s more in a word than we’ve ever seen before. Chuck
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  33. GhostMiner
    May 4 2003 We continue to make progress on our trail. We have not heard or seen anyone in the entire area including camp at last year's dig site. It’s completely quiet. I can’t explain it but I have a sort of ominous feeling about the trail and Dreamwind Canyon. It’s as if I can feel bad energy as we are working. We are all just going about our business without any distractions so everything is off to a good start. Paul is a real work horse and is doing more than his share of labor. We are making great progress and I am hopeful that we will have the new camp set up within a few days or maybe a week. TO BE CONTINUED ..............
  34. Jeff McClendon
    Absolutely. I have had a few instances like that too with gold chains and with damaged rings. For me, I practice really hard when I'm not actually hunting and when I am to not walk over good sounding gold range targets that have the "right" audio characteristics depending on what detector I'm using. When I am hunting with Deus 2 at least for me, plenty of targets sound borderline to iffy, even shallow ones. I will always try to dig 15 or 20 of those no matter what, if their numbers are right. I usually can call them as aluminum before I dig and I haven't been surprised yet. It's the really solid sounding targets with the right footprint that I make myself dig no matter what. Most of the time with Deus 2 they are aluminum or nickels but a few times they have been gold rings, chains, earrings or pendants. Making sure I know what the characteristics are of a "got to dig it" gold range target is my number one requirement when coin, jewelry and relic hunting and cherry picking is the only option.
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