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You caught me John. It’s from a video I saw but it’s not an official video. But I’ll stick with my guess regardless. You’ve got everything else covered with “not Storm”

Someone certainly thought it was valuable. Maybe it is. Some research and/or inquiries should bring some insight.

I have the Super Six for my Vista X. It is a very good, smooth running coil.

He never slicked his hair back like we did though George! 🙂

Is that an Ai composed photo, an "official Garrett trademarked/Copyrighted" pic or your photo creation talents? Or, do we keep on waiting and guessing.⛈️🌪️❄️⚡🌈

I hunted Camp Burnside with that one back in the day. Annapolis, Maryland.

Remember DP. We took a Math Class from this guy way back in the day.

It's coming from Garrett's YouTube channel, so I have to assume we will at least get some more information about the storm on Thursday.

Voodoo stuff

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Looks Native American to me.What kind of material is it Steatite (Soapstone)? It's not a pipe but maybe a fancy Ax head or Club or Effigy. I never considered Chucks angle but was thinking that maybe a farmer or rancher discovered it and wrapped it up in a rag and put inside of his lunchbox and it fell of of his tractor for example and it got reburied. Very interesting piece indeed.

I can't tell you whether it's some ancient stone effigy figurine, versus some modern art attempt. But I will say this : Even if you had not found it in a tin box and rag, you would *still* know it's man-made designed. Which is a no-brainer for your question (and was not your intent of this post). But it brought me a chuckle, because I *JUST* made this video. And your stone figurine reminded me of it . Oh the irony of the timing, haha :

Hello… I’m new to this site. Looking for upper battery housing replacement part. Need direction or advice, please.

In Goldfield, the M8 is plenty knock sensitive. Only time will tell, but I have no reason to expect the M9 to be any less so. But basically, in Goldfield, you bump the M8 and you get a signal. So, you don't bump it... - Dave

I love my Tarsacci, but I would definitely like a SMF from them...solid detector. I don't really mind the sound of the tones or having to adjust for falsing, but it just seems like everyone else is either catching up or passing it up🧐I seem to be using it less and less...

What RR is pointing out is that the Toltec 100 advertised for sale has a meter marked with British currency.

There are definitely things that can be improved. I'm not particularly fond of how the damping resistors and wire terminations are within the same Faraday shield as the windings, so I agree with you. With an old VLF or BFO, minor details like this are less of an issue, but with a machine this sensitive and complex with advanced DSP, I wouldn't overlook something like that. It would be an interesting test to reassemble one of these coils I have pulled apart, but with better foam, shielding that is consistent with resistance tuned, windings with cotton spacing, and the entire wire cluster & components coming out of the coax isolated. I've toyed with the idea of using two separate 2-wire coax cables and a shielded little box on the control unit end. That idea was for my testing, and also because Garrett's 4-wire shielded cable has two wires much thicker than the other two. I can't find a manufacturer of it. And Garrett said, in more or less words, no way when I asked.

Yeah he was serious in his mind, but lacked the impetus to achieve. He even paid for Banners to display in a couple detector shops here in Australia as if something was imminent... but of course nothing happened.

yes it does, on the back of the box, facing the user. Great detector, if a bit top heavy. The Tesoros in that era had fantastic notch discrim, very precise. I found lots with mine.

Ahh you beat me to it! 😆 Works better with ground tracking, not with the ground balance window. I posted yesterday about how I do something similar. The reason the ground tracking works better, for me anyways, is because you can hear exactly when you're hitting the target and you just wobble over it and it really tries to average that hot spot rather than grabbing and storing potentially bad samples...avoiding taking in too much surrounding. Balance window sort of leaves you in the dark. I suppose both would work the same depending on settings and your technique. Do you also find gold causes the window to want to pull to 42/20 - 44/22?

My guess is that a ring of foam suspension for the wiring loom with a shield gap will solve this issue. So the guts of the coil will be void and only foam around the loom itself. With the shielding on the foam of course... The shielding capacitance issue will be removed then.

My concern is does the less webbing on m9 will introduce/amplified more 'bump' falsing than m8 and m11 as per Minelab said the extra stiffness/webbing on m11 is to minimizing bump falsing and I assume its applied to m8 too.. I don't know maybe I'm thinking too much haha.. Anyway the m8 is more suitable for me in the river/waterfall which the coil is much easier gliding through in-between tight/narrow river rocks

It's totally doable. I recommend against going the route of my first attempts at making a 3-5" bedrock coil. Not without being able to adjust settings to values not currently supported. I think Garrett did a really good job producing a line of coils that work well for the machine and cover most scenarios. I don't think there will ever be a huge improvement in performance in aftermarket coils unless Garrett allows fine tuning the pulse timing, but 100% they can be made much quieter and stable. Their 16" coils, if quieted down and allowed to run hotter, in fine mode, and on bad ground, would put the Axiom up there as a direct competitor with Minelabs's flagship PIs, IMO. I have no data to back that up, it's just from what I've learned with what I lose in depth when I need to stabilize the machine in certain spots. A real quiet, and light 19"x10" coil would be great for powering through pastures full of quartz float. I've debating on weighting the back of the detector when running a 16" coil because it beats me up and I end up switching arms halfway through the day lifting the hot side up keeping the coil from slamming into rocks. I don't think you can get much lighter without an open design. But even then, their factory coils are pretty lightweight already. To a fault, in some cases. I am tinkering with a very large coil. I've scaled that down a bit because you run into a separate set issues, with some overlap as with very tiny coils. I want something to look all the way down to the bottom of 3-6' tall tailing piles for that life changing piece of cobble full of gold. Probably a butterfly for max depth with limited noise.

I think its the same with everyone again.

Using the speaker , 11" coil , and ATHC my battery life is around 7 hours 20 mins . This is to battery level warning . Monday , using speaker, M8 coil , Goldfield General and ATG , I still had at least an hours battery life remaining after a 7 hour . 30 minute hunt . The only way to have bigger hour hunts is to carry a power bank .