Mark Gillespie

I want to get this straight in my mind.  You get a good repeatable signal and dig the target.  Once the target is out of the hole you do a simple air test with the target and the machine is silent?

The White's model is a good choice.  It won't pick up the small bits and pieces of metal trash.

Of course you looking for the large, deep targets.  Keep us posted on your adventures.

If this is true

10. Price. It will cost approximately 2100-2500 US dollars. New technologies cost money, yes, but they also bring an advantage over all other metal detectors.

I won't bite, my TDI is more than sufficient at the moment.

Water proof is good but my Equinox will do for water hunting.

TDI for super bad ground

Equinox everything else

At times I miss my Tejon

Fantastic hunt in my book.  You did very good.  It's nice to hear others state how solid the audio is with the Equinox on good targets.

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Worn but very nice?

On 2/26/2019 at 12:15 PM, Mark Gillespie said:

 

Specific gravity is 7.878

Usually, the density of mild steel is 7.85 g / c m 3 . But, depending on the alloying elements added, this can vary between 7.75 and 8.05 g / c m 3 .

specific gravity of mild steel may vary between 7.75 and 8.05 g / c m 3 , at 4 o C

9 hours ago, Noah (FL) said:

It really comes down to them loosing or maybe just not competing in the changing world of marketing.  The companies selling tone and visual ID detectors have sold the necessity of distinguishing a penny from a dime or a nickel from a pulltab.  “Coin shooting” is great and all and the potential for a windfall coin find is out there but none of the forms of ID are of much help in distinguishing a gold ring from a pulltab or a gold chain or earring from a bit of foil.

Don’t get me wrong as I do enjoy using these more modern detectors as well but most of my detecting time is spent jewelry hunting and for that a Tesoro is hard to beat. I have confidence in them and that is the most important thing.  

In a selfish sense I am glad everyone doesn’t have a Compadre.  If they did there would be a lot less gold hiding in the playgrounds for me to find!!!

You have a very good point.  Back in the day, I had a Vaquero and a Tejon.  Both had fantastic audio capabilities.  In fact, I did find a lot more gold rings than I tend to find now.  But now, with all the high tech visual ID screens I find myself relying more on what it indicates, rather than a pure audio response and for sure I've walked right over rings thinking they might be junk.

The Compadre is another fine machine for hunting for lost gold items in playgrounds.  Partly contributed by the small coil and the unique audio.

Awesome, I love to see silver in the hole.

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1 hour ago, EL NINO77 said:

MarkG .. You can try .. what ID will show Spectra V3?

I sold the V3 to a guy to hunt his hunting arrows, of all things.  Funny thing to want a detector for but he said the arrows were very expensive.

I might try my hand and measuring the specific gravity of the metal too.

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https://www.mgsrefining.com/blog/2018/02/07/specific-gravity-testing-for-precious-metals-gems

57 minutes ago, Swampstomper Al said:

Hi.. We're going to need a bit more input from your chief machinist: Upon which scale is " 33 " based?, meaning Rockwell A, Rockwell B etc., not bathroom or gram.. The machine and method used too please..

It should be mentioned the " 33 " could be inexact regardless which scale was used, primarily due to during setup for greatest accuracy a painfully flat standardized material is used.. It takes only a slight variance at the subject test point to throw off the reading 10 points.. Just saying, while assuming accuracy..

I have no idea what " ID = 12 " is supposed to represent..

Not wanting to be a bummer here, merely pointing out we're still missing some vital information to name it and claim it..

Here's a couple charts that hopefully will be helpful up the road: 
 

Swamp
A nickel on my machine is a 13, the metal piece was a 12.

Rockwell C 33
PS: Gilding Metal = 95% Cu, 5% Zn..

C SCALE

ID is 12

Small update:

Hardness on the Rockwell C scale is 33.

Not likely to be silver now.

I'll check the ID again and post later today.

Awesome find.  You must have very mild dirt, where I live that penny would have been badly corroded.  That coin didn't see much circulation, look at the Liberty, very plain.

Mine had the 11" DD coil and it was extremely fast in the trash.

I had one of the first released Eurotek Pro's.  Mine was an exceptional detector for the price.  Wish I'd kept it, but a guy kept on and on until I sold it to him. 

I've got two updates:

It is non-ferrous and the chief machinist where I work is going to check the metal with a hardness analyzer, what ever that is.  Once I have a hardness value I'll be able to compare that to known metal hardness values.

Just another bit of information.

 He has a complete machine shop at his home where he makes knives from steel.  I'll update tomorrow. 

No clue what it could be.

The weight is almost the same as a silver dollar.

No pattern to recognize what it might be.

To start with I thought it might be lead but it can't be cut by either a sharp knife or a razor.

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I might add something that I fell for several years ago.  Tom, down in Florida was promoting the Fisher F75 very heavily.  Explaining how deep it could go, how fast it was and how much more could be found and I,  before thinking had fallen for all the hype, well maybe not hype in Florida.  Now I can say the F75 is a good machine, might go deeper, is faster and might find more but to the levels of Florida, NO.

In the red/orange clay dirt of Virginia, it struggles just like any other of the VLF machines I've had in the past.  I listened to the "you must run this machine hot" to get the depth but not in Virginia or for that matter anywhere the ground is high in minerals.  But in the white sand, no minerals of Florida, YES.

That would be a dream to true for me too.  I'm very excited for you.

Wow, awesome pieces.......

Try locating one of those low grunts and dig it up.  If it's a very small piece of iron it could possibly be a very old home site.   

That's an amazing recovery.

Wow, that is some awesome relics.  History unearthed.  Thanks for sharing.