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$650 labour for 3 hours work??? $216 an hour. $846 Australian dollars? I'm learnin' to be a grease monkey and movin' to the States y'all!!! Nice work on the gold Mitchel

Have had the update since soon after it came out. Wouldn't have said it has changed the audio on mine at all. Also can't say that the new settings have made any difference to the particular areas that I work. But that is only a few spots ? Edit: after reading SH's and Lunk's posts below I should clarify mine. With new options turned off my audio sounds the same. With locate patch on, yes it is more chattery. Sorry, should have been more specific ?

That's an amazing insight Reg. Thanks

Thanks for the inspiration on this RR. Made up my own version today - similar but different. Very easy and about $5.20. Has improved the stability fantastically and does not impede my swing or touch my right side at all. I have left the top of the two legs un-glued so that I can shorten the legs depending on how I find it in the field. Certainly very stable in the shed.

That makes me sad Andyy - you'd best move to Australia

Thanks Peg. Yep Steve, this is my GPZ album. Ridiculously small aren't they?

Certainly not my first finds but have been out today and might as well start an album. Especially with these beauties!! Now with a thread name like this you might think it will rival the Reg Wilson album?? Sadly you will be disappointed at present but don't worry as my plan is to start small so the gold in the album can do nothing but get bigger. A cunning stunt if ever I saw one Off an old area where the gold has been washed/rockered/something. Have found quite a few other little bits there but the one to the right of the echidna's nose would have to be the smallest. To give the non-Aussie's an idea the 5 cent piece is our smallest coin and on another Aussie gold forum really small gold is often measured against the nose of the echidna. Amazing to think the 14 inch coil can pick this stuff up. High yield, difficult, sensitivity 15, volume 1, B&Z booster working nicely Retirement.......a long way off at this rate.

Congrats Jin. You are having an amazing run

January - hot. February - hot. March - getting better. WA, NT, SA and Queensland would be pretty unbearable during Jan, Feb (I think). Victoria has its moments. Last summer was reasonably mild but still plenty of days mid 30's and a few in the 40's (Celsius obviously). Reg is in Victoria. 6 weeks in the famous Golden Triangle, a week in South Australia to drop in on minelab and Nenad and then 5 weeks in WA as the weather cools a little You'd get to cross the Nullabor Plain and the longest dead straight section of road in Australia - 150 kms or thereabouts. Most people find the drive to WA boring. I've done it 3 times now - heaps to see if you go looking. Whatever you do, if you end up in Victoria it would be good to catch up and have a beer

Had an outing to Reef Hills State Park near Benalla in northeast Victoria today. My first time there and also met up with prospectingaustralia forum member XIV for the first time. He was interested in learning a bit about the GPZ. He swung the Z and I swung the GM. Lots of lead and rubbish and only 1 bit of yellow - scored by the GM Not great GM ground as it is very mineralized with 4 buzzilion hot rocks. But lowered the sensitivity to 4, all metal mode and it was purring along OK. Not massive but yellow!!

Very nice indeed. When did the saying "low and slow" get invented? Must have not been until the late '90's?? Hard to argue with the results though!

Credit where it is due Trent - nice work

That Little Red Streak, Patchy Flat picture is so reminiscent of the Vic GT goldfields. The thin forest, the type trees, quartz everywhere, trees bringing up the quartz at the base. I'm assuming old mate that runs sheep in the paddock next to the forest got a knock on his door??

Ridge Runner and Cabin Fever - thankyou!! A project for the weekend

Whiz bang flash divining rod???

Great album JR, keep 'em coming. Someone once said "an inch may as well be a mile" in the detecting game. Might have even been someone on here ?

And re: the shaft. A cheap broomstick can be cut to your exact length requirements. Those little broomstick attachments work a treat. I'm 6' 3" and the provided shaft was even too long for me. Broomstick is a winner

Hopefully it's sorted quickly Phoenix. I would sort of feel a little bit confident that even if it was out of warranty by a few months Minelab might still fix this for you gratus. They seem pretty accomodating and reasonable - in Oz anyway. I did initially have the sound go out a few times when changing the ground or gold modes but it hasn't happened for a very long time now. Strange that it would be an issue and then right itself but happy that it has. Hope it's back soon.

Safari on an iPhone - no issue. Safari on an iPad - no issue. Firefox on a PC - no issue. Stay logged in usually although did have to re-log in to something the other day and never saw any warnings. Save your cash I reckon

Jrbeatty - interested in providing some paid geology sessions?? I'm sure most of what you said is English but I didn't understand much Serious about the education though as I know a few blokes who would be keen.

Mitchel and others having trouble seeing the screen. I thought the screen was a piece of /).& until I took the Minelab protector off - then it is very clear. Sunlight readable display so it is actually clearer with direct sunlight on it. Did chop a mobile phone protector up and put this on there and it is still easy to read. Polaroid glasses tends to effect a lot of different displays, tinted windows, etc so this is probably unfortunate but not unexpected.

http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/files/ It is in in the downloads section at the top of the forum. Hope someone can help you.

In a post way back gold hound put up a link or file to some ctx gold programs he developed. I can't help you with getting them to run but I'll try and find the link so others can help ??

The holy grail JR!! Congrats to you

Very, very nice jr! Deep? shallow? Obviously water worn. It actually looks like more than 88 grams worth. The size of the scales must be deceiving. And yes, we love seeing gold so bring on the pics