SeabeeRon

40 minutes ago, TampaBayBrad said:

Back up as of 5 pm....

Yes, we are back in business!

Yippee!!  FMDF is back up and running!

Cause is still being investigated.

5 hours ago, TampaBayBrad said:

Looks like it's been down again for a couple days?

Yes, and it is still down this morning?!?

47 minutes ago, Melbeta said:

Never knew Ken White JR, knew his dad Ken White SENIOR, very gracious and nice man. HE told me, one of his dealers, "My name is on my detectors. Send every one you take in on trade, back to me, and i will update them", and that is what I did. He not only updated them to the next possible higher update, he often put them into newer cases, and NO CHARGE for any work on them. Never charged me any shipping charges either. I will say I was a dealer for many manufacturers, and he was the ONLY MANUFACTURER who ever did that for me! So KUDO's to you KEN WHITE SR, and KUDO's to Ken White JR as well. I even had one customer who wanted his detector updatd into an gold nugget detector. Ken said send it back to me, I will do it. I sent it back, they updated it, again free of charge, and my customer was elated... Now that is REAL SERVICE!!!

MELBETA

He knew his business that is for sure!  Thanks for that story!

25 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

Ah, I didn't see this until after I was informed through an unusual source.

Today I had reason to talk to my T Mobile customer service rep about international calling.  I was informed that text and data were 'free' outside of the United States but calls would be $.25 per minute.  At the end of the call I always ask where someone if from so that I get an idea of where the rep is sitting.

When I guessed the rep's accent to be from Texas or New Mexico she told me she was actually from Oregon.  Then she said Sweet Home!  I said I do metal detecting and she said White's was part of the family!!!  She then asked which detector I have and I said the 6000 DI Pro and she said she knew it and the other detectors.  She told me how she was related to the White's family and that her 'uncle' was the man who took over from the founders.  

She told me that this man had passed away on January 3rd.  I had not read the post.

It is a small world if we just ask the right questions.  RIP

Mitchel

Wow!  Thanks for sharing that experience.  As you sad, it really is a small world! 

Just came across this on Stout's Standard Blog...

https://stoutstandards.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/a-montage-of-emotions/#more-51626

11 minutes ago, walkerrj said:

It looks like "veins" is mis-spelled on the map as "vains", that would be a clue to me that it's suspect.

Good catch Seabee!

Save your money, there are scams all over the Internet!

On 6/18/2023 at 10:16 PM, Jeff McClendon said:

The Clerke First Guns revolvers we’re definitely throw aways and aren’t made any more.
 

The 25 acp FIE Titan E28 semi automatic is no longer being produced but a similar Saturday Night Special based on the Raven is currently being made by Phoenix Arms. The Titan has no mag but it is in cocked position. A round could still be in the chamber but I highly doubt that it would still be "live" or that the gun still even remotely functions.

I agree with others, I would turn them into local law enforcement. They have zero historic or collector value.

If the Titan was instead a Colt Pony or something similar I might have a different opinion depending on what condition it was in.

I am not surprised that you found them in a river. 
 

Great hunt!!!
 

 

Yes, turn them.  May help solve a old crime!

3 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I stopped visiting Tom’s forum due a couple trolls that hang out there that seem to have it in for me. But prior to that I had no issues with my iPad even when others said they were. It may have to do with the age of the device or if the latest updates are running or not.

Thanks for the info Steve!

16 hours ago, JCR said:

Have you e mailed Tom so he knows to make Wally aware of the problem?

Yes I have and he said Wally will get back to me.

If this is out of line Steve, please just remove it.

While I enjoy the knowledge and information provided on the Dankowski Forum I may be down over there as I continually am having log in issues.

Anyone else experiencing this?  I use Apple devices...iMac, iPad & iPhone.  Having issue on both desktop and iOS devises.

For me, the sad part in all this, it is the End User, those who swing the detectors that are the real losers!

On 5/4/2023 at 9:23 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

No there is not and your attempt to circumvent the system by spamming the forum now has you banned.

Thanks for keeping this forum free of scammers Steve!

1 hour ago, Rattlehead said:

I try to be careful about calling BS on people's finds unless I know for absolute certain its faked. Reason being, I found some pretty unbelievable coins myself back in 2012, and if someone else had posted them I'd probably question it too.

 

I've also dug some silver coins that came out of the ground looking like they were minted yesterday. Just depends on the soil I guess.

Very True!  My "radar" will go off, but I would need to be sure before calling out somebody of faking a find.

I just stay away from FB detecting pages and You Tube to lessen the problem!

14 hours ago, Gold Seeker said:

I use the following site.

https://www.stopforumspam.com/

15 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Steve

They're getting trickier !🤔

Links to a couple of sites we use on my forums to weed out the scammers.

(which is down to almost none now that we took your lead and deleted the zero posters.

THX for the idea ! )

We now require 1 post within a month and 10 posts before allowing links.  

All newbs have to be approved before posting access is granted.

(I think the 10 post minimum was the most effective part of our effort.) 

 

Also , The vast majority of our spammers have (had) an email ending in .ru  

I have a member that was traveling in Russia and I kept allowing them in , thinking he was recruiting new members........not anymore..I  purged their sorry butts.     I just had a thought that their internet  might be restricted right now too ?

 

The first is an IP lookup that gives several locations . I found that I developed a feel for this after seeing patterns and repeated providers over the first few months.

https://www.iplocation.net/ 

This one my IT girl found and uses. I used it only once but she said she liked it.

https://scamalytics.com/ip/api/pricing

Those are all good links for weeding out spammers!  We use them all over at FMDF.

Thanks for sharing, good read!!

I am on enough detecting forums  to "smell" win a post seems off.  It can be really frustrating and time consuming to have to monitor some of these yahoos!

3 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Long story short is I am again considering creating a "New Member" account for new members, that basically only allows them to post text. No links, no photos, no PMs, no editing of posts, nothing but text, until they have made 10 posts over a 30 day period or more. That eliminates somebody just slamming out ten junk posts quick. After proving they are a person who really is interested in being a participating member, then they can have access to the other stuff.

This sounds like a reasonable way to handle this problem!

Just wondering Steve, do you have to run this forum all by yourself or do you have some Admins and/or Moderators to help?  It can be a big job!

Steve, thanks for putting your members first and involving us in your decision process!!

PS:There is a special place in Hell for Spammers!!

The link above will take you to a message from the owner of FMDF

Below is an update on the restoration work for FMDF:

Good news is they attached the old harddrive to the new server so I can copy files. Which I'm doing now and it is a lot faster vs me coping files from my backup.

I might have a temporary page in place informing members of what happen, maybe today.

The server guys are pointing the domain name to the new server.

At this rate we might be up and running this weekend/early next week!

Vlad

40 minutes ago, midalake said:

Thanks for the update!!!! Want to see those California storm beach finds soon! 

Won't see any from me but Tom_CA did well!

Below is the latest FMDF's owner got from the server company he uses..... 

So the engineers are going to build a new server which has better specs: 
Once thats built, they are going to attempt to connect/mount the drive form the old server so they can migrate the data to the new server. 
I will update you as they update me. 

It could take awhile for us to be back up and running, but we will!