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My first Gold Coin! I was working my way back to the truck today while hunting an early 1900s city park when the unimaginable happened.. I had about 5 minuets left to hunt and got a nice solid, deeper sounding 18-19.. I had pulled Indian Head cents out of this area of the park before, and I’ve had a couple on the Equinox bounce down and touch this VDI region in the past, so I thought I might be on to either an Indian or very early Wheat cent.. Little did I know my Indian would turn out to be a 1910 Indian Half Eagle Gold Coin! When I first opened the plug I went down about 5” and found a small piece of junk.. Its an old snap cover or something unrecognizable.. I put the plug back together and and gave it another sweep figuring the target I pulled didn’t really match the signal.. Back came the solid 18-19 signal, only better. I reopened the plug and started scooping out the dirt when a nice chunk of round gold appears in the hole! It looked good, but without my readers on, and being fooled a million times in the past by gold foil and such, I wasn’t sure.. It looked good enough to get my heart racing.. I don’t normally talk out loud to myself, but I blurt out to who I don’t know.. “You Better Not Be F***ing With Me!!” I put on my glasses, picked it up and instantly felt the weight.. I then knew it was gold! To say I was shell shocked is an understatement.. I don’t consider this area to have great potential for a gold coin, so I never really thought I would find one.. Thankfully, I thought wrong.. Equinox 800 - Park 1 - 50 Tones - Recovery 4 - Iron Bias 3 Approximate depth 7”.. Bryan

I was invited to a permission by my hunting partner and friend Flysar yesterday... a turn of the century Rodeo Grounds and Picnic area. He has hunted this location a few times previously, and has found a Barber Quarter, a Barber Dime and a Buffalo, but warned me that the targets are sparse and the ground is loaded with iron. We were both very curious about what the Equinox could do in this environment. There were three of us hunting, I had the E600, he had his Deus and the third was swinging an AT Max. We started by marking a few targets.. I set out in Park 1, 50 tone, Recovery 3 and Iron Bias 0. I marked 6 targets and he marked about the same with his deus. As I mentioned in another thread, the Equinox was deadly on deep rusty iron. In a few cases, it was even giving me id's in the high 20's-low 30's and never bouncing up to high 30's. The Deus on the other hand, marked 6 or 7 old rusty bottle caps (a few of which the Equinox showed in the zinc range... 18-21). I will say, when comparing the marked targets between the three machines... we usually ended up with 1 "I would dig it" (and usually from the machine that marked the target), and 2 "I wouldn't dig it" by the other two machines. So, with the testing results ending inconclusive, we decided to break off and hunt. Over all we spent a solid 3 hours around the entrance and stadium of the rodeo grounds and other than Flysar finding a wheat, no old coins were found, only a few pennies, a clad dime and a clad quarter between the three of us. We decided to call it a day... mostly discouraged. As my friends drove away, I decided to take one more pass on the outside edge of the grounds, near the horse trailer entrance next to a large pasture. My first target was the penny with a cross stamped out in the middle. I thought to myself... "well that is a good sign". Within 30 minutes, in an area about 20 yards square... the other 5 targets in the picture along with the cross penny were in my pocket. I had spent all morning chasing iffy and sometimes repeatable high tones, digging all manner of iron bits (one square nail, which I was happy to find), working hard to try and make good targets out of the clicks and wheezes... and boom! these targets came in with roundness of tone and clarity. No doubt they were diggable. The three silver dimes all presented at 26-28, the war nickel was 13-14, the wheat was 24-26 and was the deepest at about 5". The other targets were 3-4". Interestingly enough, the ground in this area was dense and hard packed, but not dry... it had plenty of moisture, but it nearly took a digger to break the plug. All three dimes hid inside the plug from my Carrot on '3' with not response. I had to break open the plugs to find them with the pinpointer, and only after standing up to re-sweep the hole and plug with the 600 to find out where the target had gone. My takeaway is to never give up on a site, especially that has old ground. The targets are out there. Thanks to Flysar for inviting me along and giving me my best silver day to date. Tim.

Huge congrats!! I've found several goodies with those 18 and 19 numbers. Especially colonial flat buttons. I prob won't ever find a gold coin here. Folks were so poor they couldn't afford to pay attention.

Congratulations on your excellent finds. What Vez said, " trust your machine". This, of course takes some time on the machine and learning it's language. I've got maybe 70 hours on the 800 and am growing more trusting of what it is telling me. I've yet to be surprised by an iffy signal being something good. This is gonna sound obvious, but the good targets sound good. The bad targets usually have a " tell" . They just don't sound solid. Yes, I get fooled...but I would rather get fooled then to miss a keeper. I've noticed my trash finds to good finds ratio getting closer. Am I leaving a good target behind? Probably. But I don't feel like I've missed any really good ones. I use the VDI numbers as just a rough guide relying more on the sound of the tones. Which is what I guess we all do as we get to know the machine better (any machine). I don't think I will truely be one with the machine until well in to the 100+ hours mark. I sure have dug more coins with the Nox in the short time I've had it than any other. It really likes round shapes. Round shapes sound really good regardless of their composition. Anyway, I'm rambling. Great work! Dean

Just about every iffy signal I have had has turned out to be worth digging. This morning I dug $3.38 in clad in less than an hour and two quarters were in someone else plug they had dug. I thought I had been the only guy in this park for a long time but I kept noticing what I thought were plugs but thought maybe they were mine. then I noticed them where in areas I hadn't hunted. When ran my detector over a cpl of them I got a solid 28 and thought it was probably a can but went for it and with no digging the plug popped out and bingo a clad quarter the guy missed. I have pulled over $38 from this park since last Sat. I hunted till my battery went dead this morning and then walked the park and counted the guys plugs and there were like 52 of them. He either didn't know how to hunt or had a really poor detector. I get a lot of jumpy signals and more often than not there is trash in the hole along with the coin. This morning I had a piece of copper wire and a nail in a hole with a dime. One other signal bounced from 19 - 25 and mostly hung out at 23 but got an occasional 27. I had a gut feeling it was a penny but when I dug I got a brass tack a rusty nail and a dime and quarter. I agree 100% with Cabin Fever that coins just sound good whether a faint signal or strong signal and shallow or deep. I am beginning to trust my judgement more and more with the Equinox and haven't dug trash for 3 days but now that I say it I will probably dig a ton of trash tomorrow..lol

Today was a nice day at the beach. It was actually too warm for my long sleeve shirt. I started out at a very low tide and found next to nothing. It was time to get up off the wet sand and go hunt behind the lifeguard stations, away from the non-producing wet sand. What a relief. No salt water, no hot rocks ... just a few bottle caps! I could use beach, park and field as I wanted. I was on the dry sand for about 2 hours which is the most for me in a few years. I think I'll do it again in the right area. The pin is a Dade County Police Chiefs Association lapel pin. I'm in California. I don't know how it got here. Some research that I did indicates that that sociation has renamed itself the Miami-Dade association which would make this pin older. I don't know what year but interesting to me. The big coin is a 1998 Two Pounder. Mitchel

Today, as I moved towards High Tension lines, my 800 acted up while running Park 1 in Multi IQ. Noise Cancel had no affect nor did changing to Park 2. I decided to run through the frequencies. 5k was noisier, 10k a little better, 15k & up was quiet so I continued in 15kHz. One more Equinox learned item for me.

If, If, IF your silver coin has NO numismatic value, i.e. just the base metal value, and you want to clean it, make a paste of baking soda and water, coat the coin with the paste, and then rub it between your fingers. Then rinse; you may have to do it again a time or two, but this takes the tarnish off the coins, most of the time. Do NOT do this on any coin that has numismatic value, or the "micro-scratches" will ruin the value (PCGS will grade it "cleaned.") Steve

I've only had my 800 for about a week, so I made some simple ID cards using Steve's graphic, to get familiar with the machine. I have extras, and with Steve's permission, I'm offering 1 to the first 50 interested. These are simple, pocket size, laminated cards, with large bold font. Target IDs on the front, detector settings menu on the back. Edit 2/19/19 by Steve Herschbach. The offer to mail you one of these free is long past. Just download the pdf, print, and laminate your own. idcardfinal.pdf

Thank you everyone! It was definitely a surreal experience, from goosebumps to an almost high.. A gold coin was the furthest thing from my mind as I dug that hole.. It’s a good thing I found it at the end of my hunt, because I couldn’t think straight after that.. Whenever I read about others finding a gold coin, I almost think of it as them hitting the lottery, and that it would never happen to me.. Still doesn’t feel right even talking about it.. I hope you all get the chance to find one... Thanks again! Bryan

Field 2 default is set to discriminate out ID's -9 to 2, so I think you need to go to the Accept/Reject setting and use the (-) and/or (+) to navigate to segments 0 and 1 and press the accept/reject button to add those back in to the accepted ID's.

The GB numbers are quite different, TN...the "2" modes balancing with a higher number in my dirt, than the "1" modes. I had noticed this before, but didn't attribute anything significant to it, other than the balance is simply "different" at different frequencies/frequency combinations. So? Cal Cobra -- I've been thinking/pondering the very same things you are. Look at Explorers; you simply do NOT "ground balance" them. The "ground" is "handled" by the multi-frequency somehow -- my guess is using data from the different frequencies for "comparisons/differencing" in the algorithms. Then along comes the CTX -- which is the same as the Explorers, EXCEPT, the manual tells us, in EXTREME ground, we "can" ground balance, "if we wish to." But otherwise, "don't worry about it." So now, along comes the Equinox, which seems to make the ability to ground balance a bit more "prominent,' (i.e. each mode has a ground balance setting), but curiously the balance number is set to default at "zero." HMM. And this, taken with the verbiage you pointed out above, which I've been pondering, all seems to suggest to me that the Equinox may not be all that much different than the CTX -- i.e. ground balance isn't all that important, except in more extreme ground. ??? I don't know, but I sure would like an engineering answer to this. A Minelab "treasure talk" blog on this from someone like Mark Lawrie would be AWESOME! Steve

Using someone else's setting only works for you if you're hunting the exact same type of environment as they are, like if you're relic hunting and the settings are from the tame grounds of the east coast, but you're in highly mineralized soils in the west coast, then, IMO, it's not a great idea. That was a hard lessen for me to learn, I used to follow NASA Tom's reports religiously, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with his detector reports, as they can be the most comprehensive detector capability analysis on earth BUT his inert Florida soil is nothing like what we have to deal with here on the west coast and in the Nevada deserts. So what may work great for him, can be (and has been for me in many situations) a complete bust for me. I think the key is really leaning what each setting does and when to use it, so that you can set it up for optimal performance in YOUR detecting environment. So if I'm detecting an alkali soil site that my VLF machines can't even ground balance at, and it's loaded with iron, I need to have a completely different approach to setting my EQ800 up then someone in England, the east coast, or where ever. That said, that's not to say that you can't learn a lot about the detector by understanding WHY people are setting up their detectors the with the settings their using so you can modify it to suit your environment. Just my V nickels worth

This is what I ended up getting. A lot of the aptX low latency earbuds and receivers only had 6 hours battery life. 6 hours is about the maximum I'd be out detecting, but after the battery gets older I'm sure it would be less than that. This one does 10 hours and had some really good reviews. It's about the size of a Zippo lighter. TROND BT-RX S on $20 Amazon

Aside from the fact you might find gold jewelry in the nickel range, why do you hunt for nickels? I also am a detector nut myself and do understand the concept of detecting for anything just for the fun of it. When I do coin hunt however the fact is most older nickels I find are in such poor condition that it’s doubtful they are even worth face value. Yet most silver coins I find look as new as the day they were dropped. Many silver coins found will grade out decently, but that is very rare for old nickels. This means the chance of finding high value silver coins is vastly better than the chance of finding high value nickels. Or so I believe. Newer nickels are in better condition, but key date Jefferson’s are not exactly worth a fortune, and they are few and far between. Then there is the fact that going after nickels usually involves more trash per coin, at least in my experience. If I focus on silver dimes and higher there is very little trash that ends up in my pouch. Anyway, is anyone digging nickels for any real reason other than that finding an old Buffalo or V nickel is a fun find? What’s the highest value nickel anyone has found? I have some War nickels that might be worth a few bucks, but that’s it for me.

My Nickel digging is definitely site and mood dependent.. If I’m hunting an aluminum infested parking strip, I’m not wasting my time on Nickels.. Key date Nickels are hard to come by in my area compared to the Wheats and silvers.. I got a 16 D Buff this year and a couple 17 S last year.. Lucky if their worth $20.00 in dug condition.. Probably closer to the $5-$10 range.. Some Nickels with meat left on them clean up nice with steel wool and look pretty cool if not cleaned to far.. I usually only chase the deeper nickel signals to keep the tab count down.. The only gold rings that I have found were all Nickel signals since I’m not a jewelry hunter.. Im already working on my Equinox Nickel skills trying to find a strategy to cut down on the the trash.. I do this knowing I could be missing some good stuff.. I’m trying to find a balance of time, quality of finds and fun.. In Park 1 I have yet to dig a Nickel that has either bounced down to 11 or up to 14.. Not saying this can’t happen but it hasn’t yet.. If I get even one flash of 11 over several sweeps it has always been a rolled up or broken Beaver Tail, or in one of yesterday’s digs, an old junk kids ring.. I’m thinking a Silver War Nickel could bounce higher, but I haven’t found one yet with the Nox and they really don’t excite me much either.. This all being said. In a park that I know well, and where old stuff is real deep. I will dig almost all non ferrous signals that lay beneath the aluminum zone.. That’s how you get the cool pins, buttons, tokens and such.. Bryan

Yeah, I suspect 0.625" is a typo. I`ve just done a season with 0.8mm PC (Lexan) on the Z coils and I`d reckon they`ll do another at least, light as a feather tough as nails.

I only started metal detecting last year, so I haven't found many good finds or even many nickels for that matter, but I did find a 1939 D (key date) in good condition. At that point I hadn't found any silver yet, so I traded it with my Dad (who has been collecting coins nearly his whole life and didn't have one of these) for a few silver coins.

I have had this same argument with myself several times Steve :). But for me, I dig nickel tones at a new site for the information they provide me. Yes, they are also in the range of a few selections of gold rings, but I look at it on a larger scale. If I have a site that I am pulling multiple nickels from, that tells me it hasn't been detected much for gold jewelry at all... so I start paying more attention to the TID's just below and above the nickel id. Especially if there are few high tone coins, but several nickels. At least that is my approach, it isn't the nickel ID itself, but what it represents for that area. Having said that, I have pulled three War Nickels since I got my Equinox E600, and I am pretty stoked about that too. Not a lot of value, but cool finds :). And Cabin Fever's post reminded me why I dig zinc pennies too. :) Tim.

Your original post did not ask about Bethel just whether gold can be found in sand under tundra. The flats in the immediate Bethel area would not be a great place to look for larger gold but you might be able to pan a few specks of gold. I would not bother with a detector - a gold pan is a far better tool for evaluating unknown material.

Good post Tim, I like your explanationon iffy signals and I'm guilty as charged for doing the same thing. I was finding some good stuff as you know at the ball fields but in other areas there I wasn't hearing the "round sounds" and before long I was really working the iffy signals. Well that wasn't working and after a while I told myself to stop, trust the machine and if it's not there it's just not there. Later I pulled another rosey from the front of the park. The plus side is boy am I learning what sounds to NOT dig. Lol

I enjoyed your post Norm. That is amazing that you were able to count so many plugs... and also that you are still pulling coins out of some of them. $38 in clad? That is some coinage!! I should qualify what I mean by "iffy" signals... or better stated, what I don't consider "iffy". If I can get a repeatable tone in both directions, that seems to be hitting in same spot on the ground... that, of course, isn't iffy. Even if the ID is jumping around. I dug a few wheats this past weekend that were bouncing from 24 to 30 with every sweep of the coil... but the tone was repeatable, and didn't move around... including when I pinpointed. "Iffy" to me is a non-repeatable tone... maybe it hits only in one direction, or every 2 or 3 out of 5 passes. It may stay in one place, or move a little with each pass, and the wiggle location is different than the pinpoint. And also, when the ID jumps up and touches 37 or 38 on occasion... Those are in most cases iron for me. Sometimes there is enough "high 20" ID's along with the tone for me to narrow my sweep and try to clean up the target... and I do have a tendency to try to make targets sound good (that is a common ailment for us all I think haha). That being said, I have been fooled a few times by solid signals. Good ID, repeatable tone with hard edges, at 3 or 4 arrows on the depth meter... only to recover a piece of iron. Some of that may be my running in IB 0... but when I have an "iffy" in the ground... and try to make something good out of it... I don't think I have dug anything but iron... As I said... that won't keep me from digging them... I just know there is a treasure hidden behind one of those "iffy's" :) TIm.

I agree with steveg's thoughts. Just like the other multi frequency units the GB isn't as critical as SF in most ground. I've only run in to a couple of places where the machine got "out of balance" and had to change it from the factory presents ( or where it auto GBed) in that mode. Swinging a GPX a lot gives you a good ear for that slightly out of balance state. I've found that while being in multi if the machine becomes unbalanced, I go in to the GB mode and manually adjust the GB setting just a number or two until the machine is stable again. It doesn't take much. Kind of like the auto tune feature on the GPX. You let the machine find the most quiet frequency first and, after a while, it may get a little noisy. Then usually all that is required is to go in and adjust up or down a coulple of numbers and she's quiet again. Hope that made sense. Dean

Ed, You won't want to use the supplied wireless headphones phones in the water if there is a chance of them getting knocked off your head or splashed by a wave. If they get splashed or dunked, they are probably toast as they have practically no water resistance. If you are not submerging the pod, 3rd party waterproof wireless BT (APTX or APTX low latency) ear buds will do (~$20-40US) or you can wait for the Equinox compatible waterproof wired headsets but cost and availabity are unknown (anticipate $125 - 175 and several weeks b4 release). Another option is putting the supplied (Equinox 800 only) non-bluetooth WM08 module in a waterprood cell phone pouch with a sealed audio jack and using water resistant or waterproof wired buds or headphones. Note that the Equinox 600 is not supplied with wireless phones or the WM08 wireless low latency receiver but has the same wireless audio transmit capabilities as the Equinox 800. HTH. By the way, since I don't dive, I see no reason to keep my Excal II around any longer but I also never really got enough hours to get proficient on it either. The Equinox was pulling deep (10" to 15"+) mid conductive (e g., nickels) and high conductive targets from wet sand at the tide line for me (too cold yet to take a dip). That's when I knew the Excal was toast.

Yes ! Thank you it 's function , the problem is i dont have the manual in my language ... than you

Wow, BIG CONGRATS!! That's a memory you'll never forget, awesome! Definitely seeing a trend, these things seem to LOVE gold, not a bad problem to have

Great finds Tim.. 4 Silver days are rare on public land these days.. Way to stick with it.. There have been some good points made by you and others about the iffy signals with the Equinox.. Besides a few deep coins really tight to iron that I have found. I just don’t remember any of the the others being questionable.. Its easy to start questioning yourself after a lull in good signals.. Before you know it, your digging stuff you knew in the back of your mind was probably crap.. Coins just plain sound good, both shallow and deep.. Thanks for sharing your story.. Bryan

That is so awesome! I know you give a lot of credit to the Nox but you had to choose to dig it. The only problem you have now is topping it. I've been passing up those 2 numbers as they've always been junk. Time to go back.

Chase, You are right about the salt. (I forgot to mention it above.) Use plain salt without iodine and you can get a chemical reaction which will reverse the tarnish on silver. https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-clean-and-polish-silver-cleaning-lessons-from-the-kitchn-216832

Ya Strick, I’ll be digging zincs the rest of my life now.. I usually only chase the deeper zinc signals unless I’m on a compacted ground or tree roots.. Thanks!

So how many times over did that pay for your new detector? Congratulations, Bryan!

That is so cool Bryan...you earned that one with all your intensive coin hunting...that could have easily been a zinc penny with those TID's...congrats! strick

Fantastic! Mitchel

We find lots of beach clad and stick it in a tumbler with beach sand. Small tumbler came from Harbor Freight. This makes it ready for Coinstar/Amazon certificate at 100%. You can add some cleaner and they will brighten. If you had a little more valuable coin you could use a bit of baking soda. We use that on silver and of course you can clean a ring with aluminum foil, vinegar and baking soda. Mitchel

Great report. Especially liked the discussion of target marking and comparison between the detectors. Wonder how those marks might have sounded in various Equinox modes. Just really illustrates the point that you need to hit a site with different detectors or at least different modes. Diversity of tools is key. Also, liked how you didn't give up and followed one last hunch and it paid off.

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If you read between the lines on the various search modes, Minelab seems to imply that the ground balancing is done automagically, regardless of whether you do a ground grab or not. For example: Park 1 Multi-IQ processes a lower frequency weighting of the multi-frequency signal, as well as using algorithms that maximise ground balancing for soil, to achieve the best signal to noise ratio. Hence Park 1 is most suited for general detecting and coin hunting. Park 2 Multi-IQ processes a higher frequency weighted multi-frequency signal while ground balancing for soil. Field 1 Multi-IQ processes a lower frequency weighted multi-frequency signal, as well as using algorithms that maximise ground balancing for soil, to achieve the best signal to noise ratio. Hence being most suited for general detecting and coin hunting. Field 2 Multi-IQ processes a higher frequency weighted multifrequency signal while ground balancing for soil. Beach 1 Multi-IQ processes a low frequency weighted multi-frequency signal, and uses special algorithms to maximise ground balancing for salt. Beach 2 MultiIQ processes a very low weighted multi-frequency combination, using the same algorithms as Beach 1 to maximise ground balancing for salt. Not to be confused with auto tracking, but it appears that the Equinox is doing some ground balancing specific to each search mode irregardless of whether you do a ground grab (auto ground balance in EQ speak) or not. Not that I would skip doing a ground grab, but I find it interesting that Minelab seems to be implying they process the ground balancing differently for each search mode, even if you don't do it. Steve do you see this as the case?

Oooooops my bad lol. Screw cap.... penny...or gold ring

Stunningly fantastic find! Not only a bucket lister for a lot of people but a fine example at that. I really like the Indian Half Eagle design. Congratulations Bryan, well earned for sure!!

awesome Brian!

Woot woot, she's an absolute beauty. Congrats

Hi guys just joined this wonderful forum , thanks so much for the TID numbers for the nox.

Good luck bud

Steve also consider that their quick start guide, and the Quick Start procedure on page 11 of the manual gives these four steps: 1) Turn On 2) Select a Detect Mode 3) Noise Cancel 4) Begin Detecting! Thats Minelabs words, and exactly what I did my first couple of hunts, and the Equinox performed perfectly. TID was solid, machine was quite, plenty of power as it detected deep targets. So something is going on under the hood that almost makes me wonder if it's at all necessary to GB at all (not that I mind, mind you, it's very simple and I'm used to doing it on my other detectors). Just something that struck my curiosity more than anything, especially as you noted their previous Multi frequency machines did it on the fly.

As always probably a trade off. Equinox will hit smaller gold better than an Excalibur, no doubt about that. It will also probably have you digging more bottle caps and tiny aluminum. You say you really love the Excalibur and the more you like the detector you have, the less chance a new one is going to excite you. In particular, the target responses on Equinox are quite different than Excalibur and so would be a change, and not everyone loves change. Long story short nobody can say how you might react to a new detector. A big factor for me and Equinox is unlike Excalibur you can eventually use different coils easily, where Excalibur is normally hardwired to the coil it uses. The 15” x 12” coil will be real sweet for those huge Florida beaches. It will probably need some rod customization for balance however running the large coil. The jury is out on robustness. Excalibur is waterproof to 200 feet, Equinox to 10 feet. That implies Excalibur is more waterproof but anyone using an Excalibur long term knows it has service issues. Equinox may end up having an edge there as knobs on Excalibur are replaced with sealed buttons on Equinox. Equinox has far fewer potential water and sand entry points and I suspect it will prove to do quite well as far as service with long run use in saltwater compared to Excalibur. Short story now is until underwater headphones are available for Equinox there is no rush for anyone to get one if it will be used in water more than 2-3 feet deep. The wireless works until the pod is submerged, and after that you need a wired connection.

Thank your VERY much!

Thanks for the shot of nostalgia. Just the other day I was detecting at the park and got my first hands on of a beaver tail since I was a little kid lacking the finger strength to rip one of those things off (SOOOO frustrating!!!!). Usually, when I tried, I ripped off the ring leaving the beavertail in place on an unopened can. Often a bruise or small cut was the result. This was frequently followed by an adult either laughing or yelling at me. Who designed these damn things?!?!?!?! As a kid they were unuseable, and now as a detectorist... we all get a less than enjoyable feeling from them. Oh well. Thanks for bringing what will probably be the only joy I ever experience from this old school pull tab. One other bit of nostalgia from those days. Who remembers kids and teens making chains out of these things, wrapping one around the next?? I remember the dads in our neighborhood relaxing with a 6 pack wearing a necklace the kids made out of these things.

I was was on my iPhone and realized that my wireless headphones were still paired Up.. They pair up to my phone as well as my Equinox every time I turn them on.. I had accidentally left them on after I had been doing some testing in the house earlier.. I have seen the little headphone paired icon on my phone before but this time I noticed a little battery indicator next to the icon.. Not sure how accurate it is but it was nice to see.. Not knowing how full my headphones were always kind of bugged me.. We will see with time how accurate this little indicator is.. Bryan

This is the app I use.. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coinflation-gold-silver/id535653219?mt=8 Here is there website.... http://www.coinflation.com The phone app has melt values for junk gold and silver.

I checked my wife's 2 diamond platinum rings. 1 was a 10, and the other a 12, in air testing. She wouldn't let me bury them.