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2 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

My autograph is only worth anything if it’s on a check. 

It is not worth much in Ozzie unless it is on a Cheque here. 🤑😀

Some prices of Crotal bells

A word of warning in WA wet soil, if you start getting bogged, reverse back out. Going forward normally mean you will get in a bigger bog. That red dust when wet will stop everything on wheels with little warning.

The Flumes were the ground is not flat (normally just a trench) that I have seen here in Aus look very similar. I have also seen and old "wooden pipework" town water supply, it was circular and held together with wire. It was about 13 Km long the area was very hilly and at one spot they dug a tunnel through a ridge.

13 hours ago, Reg Wilson said:

Finders is back, but who knows for how long.

Suspended Again.🤕 

The adverts say it's 90% detector and 10% operator.

The Experts say it's 90% operator and 10% detector.

As to how much a detector is worth paying for depends on the amount of time you spend using it.

The targets/finds depends on time spent searching and the selection of location and who got there before you.

In summary. Consider the time you will use it and how important your time is. If your use/value is high get the detector with the higher features and price. To justify your choice divide the price by the hours you would use it, if it is too high drop down a level or so.  REMEMBER you are the one that has to put up the cash. 

The large one is in the dwt range at 1.2+ dwt (ie 20% larger) The next step is a ¼ ounce or bigger. 🤑

It is great when you get an accurate lost location. I looked for a couple of hours for a wedding ring. She said it was on the front lawn as she had spent all day there. The location was full of junk and no ring. About 3 months later it was found in the house when it fell out of the phone book. As it was a work mate wife he could not apologies more for the time spent on the junk laden front lawn. ☺️

Spot on Larry, and a heap more even some of them just posting their learning trip.

1 minute ago, Reg Wilson said:

Finders was the oldest forum in Australia. It has fallen foul of sabotage from a most undesirable forum.

A lot of good posts from early days are there. Ken Roberts told me he was setting it up years ago. I visits for  ages before I join in the early 2000s. It seem to have gone through a few bad times were good poster left or died, from 2015 onwards and the new members that join to cause mischief. 

In the early 1980s that size musket balls were quiet common in the Victorian gold fields. Being an early colony of UK in the 1850 gold rushes, it is not surprising.

Finders went down for a while, then had a quick return and got flooded with porn and died again.

Seeing all of mine are from AUSTRALIA and your monitor is not large enough to fit it on, I will refrain for breaking the rules and not post my larges. 😜  By the way all of those USA nugget look great beside the one being eaten so next time Gerry shave before taking the photo. 😁 

The area there is in a  National Park so not permitted. No panning in most rivers and creeks allowed due to it may cause Mercury contamination down stream from original mining in the area.

N° 2 and N° 4 Grandkids wanted to do a bushwalk with me so I took them to the start of the  Australian Alps Walking Track as we only had my vehicle it had to be a there and back exercise from Walhalla to the Thomson River and back. The Australian Alps Walking Track is a long distance walking trail through the alpine areas of Victoria, New South Wales and ACT. It is 655 km long, starting at Walhalla (a historical gold field), Victoria and running through to Canberra. The track goes mainly though Australian national parks It ascends many peaks including Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Bogong, and Bimberi Peak. To walk the whole trail can take between 5 to 8 weeks. 

Now the boys insist on doing the next section to the STEEL BRIDGE  as soon as time permits.

The history of the track.

A great write up. I had a small scale claim in Australia nearly 40 years ago. The procedure to get it was full of red tape with BulllSh!t regulations that made the whole process a nightmare. Never again. How do you cope with the RED TAPE.

8 hours ago, fogrider said:

I love the 600. It does everything so well. Now that I've learned it's "voice", I can tell exactly what I'm detecting. It works so well for coins-on-edge, and it hit a dime on edge at 6 inches deep.

Yes, imagine if I had this machine back in the 80"s! How many coins did I miss?!

The settings that seem to work best up here are Park1, 22-40 Accept, 5 tones, Sensitivity 25, 15 kHz, Recovery 1.

I found an old Garrett for 20 bucks at a garage sale a month ago. It's pleasantly nostalgic, but quite the "beast".

 

 

I had to buy one of the first Garrett ADS for the wife when they were released at a cost of 4 ounces of gold but it paid for it self many times over. At $20 I might be able to pay for it with finds even today as that is less than a ¼gram now. 😄

It looks like ML would be better off swapping a faulty coil with another brand as it will save multiple postage costs 🤑. Lanny, a gentleman like yourself is welcome in Australia and I would supply you with snake, shark and dropbear repellent for free. 😁

Some nice finds there, well done. How would you like to have had the Equinox 600 back in the early 1980s.

The stuff  (Fiat Money) you get for selling it is doing no better.

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

Looks like you're all out of luck and it's developed a fault, if it's out of warranty there is little you can do, fortunately it's not an expensive detector to replace.   Just make sure your coil is done up tightly but there isn't much else you can do.

As Simon said not much you can do but check all cable, earphone and batteries connections. Let hope that is all it is.

Looks like an USA military cap badge going by it shape W x H and size.

Might be along the lines of this

https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/731621/onesided-boot-scraper/

On my kayak paddle I use a Self-adhesive Silicone Tape, Waterproof Silicone Rubber Adhesive Repair Tape, Bonding Rescue Wire Hose Silicone Self Fusing Tape.  It is very durable and provides a good gripping surface.