Rick K - First Member

A rich broth from the hot stove of prospecting. Thanks!

Who's going to be the first to use a drone scout up that wash that you'd love to hike up but crap it's warm your old it's nearly vertical geewhiz I still like to have a look! Seriously Dash anybody thinking of using drones to scout out likely New terrain?

Relic hunters like the bunch who attend Digging in Virginia" will benefit from this since ultimate depth in hot VA soil is their major interest. I take it that when you say reintroduction, you mean that the 4500 will stay in the lineup and that this is not just the disposal of excess inventory. Good news for prospectors.

I think I posted this here before – I certainly posted it somewhere before – but I had an original TDI and I now have one with Reg's mods and the difference is like night and day. Beautiful smooth threshold iand a bit more depth. Thanks Reg.

Great story, and if I understood the "ins and outs" correctly, one bunch had the concession/permission and subcontracted or franchised it out to the hunters who found it. I love that, subcontracting is how I made my living for 35 years - no treasure however - darn!

A pal of mine just sold an SDC2300 for $2000 (asking - don't know if he got that much) on Craigslist in Phoenix. Guess it's not only the price of gold that is dropping. It's not just gold detectors however. I have bought and sold a couple of dozen detectors in the past 18 months or so and the price of used detectors is really "soft" right now. I just got offered four absolutely beautiful Italian Suits in my size at a gas station in Abu Dhabi for $800 - so I guess things are tough all over - but that's another story!

It's back!! GPX4500 - brand new and at a bargain price. Now you can own the former top of the line for a great price. This and an SDC would set you back about half of what a GPZ costs. http://forums.nuggethunting.com/index.php?/topic/11573-minelab-gpx-4500-now-available-again-from-robs-detector-sales/

So Fisher was willing to send you two replacement units (one coil replacement- one complete replacement) at no cost to you for shipping either way; based on your findings on air testing under conditions completely unknown to them. Pretty good I'd say. I'm sorry to hear that you were inconvenienced, I'm sure it was frustrating, but except for the original unit, it appears that none of the others were actually defective, just not up to the standards you had set. It is a sad fact that almost all makes of detectors exhibit considerable unit to unit variation, much like I remember was true for rifle accuracy when I was into that stuff - some rifles of a certian make and caliber were tack drivers and others were not. I am pleased to hear that Fisher went the extra mile to satisfy your expectations. I'm sure whoever buys it will thank you for your trouble. One advantage to dealing with a local dealer is that you can probably do your air testing before you buy!

Actually, "Woof" is one of the "handles" under which Dave Johnson (Chief Designer) at Fisher, etc.) posts on a MD forum. Given the number of gold detectors Dave has designed, I guess he is sort of the champion gold detecting "Woofer"! I have met him however, and he's not nearly as cute as the little rat in the picture!

Glad you are finding that concentric coil useful!

Matt, Thanks for the clarification. I've had mine on and off a number of times and I didn't see how it could likely break. Guess I forgot about the rivets as a potential failure point.

One comment to a post above. The TDI control box is heavy gauge aluminum, it is held my four stainless steel screws to a thick aluminum flange which is firmly attached to the rod. Of course, I guess it could have come loose somehow due to sliding sideways to the ground. Even if it did however, it still has the ability to be body mounted. Just sayin!

Actually, in Denmark there is near universal agreement that significant bits of their common history are the property of all the people and not something to be possessed by an individual or sold for profit to some collector, perhaps outside Denmark. Most detector users see themselves as discoverers and protectors of their National Heritage. Different strokes for different folks.

There's a Deepseeker Package listed,for $1690 on Craigslist in Phoenix.

Pic showing four out of a total of 10 gold bracelets or armbands or the like which a detecting pair found in one field in Denmark. Total weight of gold is 3.5 kg or 7.7 pounds - 113 ounces troy. 3,500 one gram nuggets - ouch! These object are from the Bronze Age - 1500 - 500 BC Only catch. By law in Denmark this is National Heritage Treasure. The finders and the landowner will recieve a payment based on the value of the metal.

Maybe good old US PO First Class Parcel is,the way to go. Only problem like I mentioned previously is you can't insure it. Perhaps the Customs and Excise folks who,handle male are less "agressive" than the ones,who handle parcel services like DHL, UPS, FedEx, etc.

John, I think you will find that the F75 has undergone pretty much continuous development since it was introduced. The original was probably the most powerful VLF detector onmthe market, but that power could not be used where EMI was an issue. Apparently design changes were made on an ongoing basis in software and perhaps hardware to improve EMI resistance. A new model with Boost Process (somewhat confusingly called either LTD or SE) was introduced,some time ago and in 2014 there has just been a significant upgrade of this model with the addition of DST noise reduction. My new F75 is incredibly sensitive and can run at 99 sensitivity in my EMI hellish environment with minimum fuss if I select the quietest frequency. I do suspect, however that mechanical engineering of the detectors has not been their strongest suit. This seems to be improving. KeithnSouthern has tested the new F44 and he raved about the solid air of quality that the detector has. So hopefully the hardware issues are going away.

A couple of recent posts referred to the whites TDI – so I thought I'd pass along the following. Last week I purchased a secondhand TDI from a guy who had sent it in to have Reg Sniff's noise reduction mod done - along with replacement of the op-amp. I had a TDI previously and the difference between that one and this one is like night and day. My old one had a warbly threshold that drove me nuts and made it very difficult to use the sensitivity higher than about 2/3 of full. My house is EMI hell, the neighborhood has underground utility service and the transformers sit on the ground. Even mildmannered VLF's like Whites Classics go nuts here at full sensitivity. This TDI has a silky smooth threshold with just an occasional blip at full sensitivity (12). It also air tests 17" on a nickle with the standard 12" DP coil! That's 4" more than I ever got with my old TDI here at the house with the same coil. I have been playing with the silver coin hunter trick with the high conductor mode selected and the GB offset to kill all ferrous. It really works - with the GB on 4, I hear no iron - and a quarter that I buried down 8" about 5 years ago gets a good signal with 2-3" air gap even using a 10" elliptical Coiltec mono. Now I need to find a dead Bigfoot coil and build a mono PI "Bigfoot". The mods were $125. Reg could probably furnish current details.

Glad to hear it worked! Only drawback with USPS First Class Parcel(what I used to ship it to you)'is that you can't insure the package. Ok for a coil maybe, but for something which cost hundreds of $$$, maybe not.

Loose treasure makes some folks crazy. When gold was the "cash crop" robbery, murder and mayhem were the rule. It was sorted out by better government and better law enforcement. Of course the enforcement preceded the government when the "barons" ran off the small timers. Good government sorted that out. Now we have poor government and selective law enforcement. In my opinion a bad combination.

Going to Post Office this AM to get price on shipping it.

Does anyone know who runs the site with the Fisher news? The name way at the bottom is Ilya Chemeris. I think bynthe name maybe Kazakstan? Also on the page is a bit about Mars coils and rods from a company in Keyv, Ukraine. The rod is a Deus knockoff, mount your own detector arrangement. Said to cost $100!

I Have a nice concentric 14" Whites "Sierra Gold Max" coil with cover. It's not the DD one, this concentric is no longer available. $90 shipped.

Hey Argyle, When I was freezing my butt off and hungry in the woods in Washington state in USAF Survival School in 1969, half a can of cold baked beans (even the terible British ones) would have tasted pretty good! LOL No worries, It's still probably Tesoro's best moneymaker. Regards,

Regarding the Lobo Super Trac auto Tracking, I think dave Johnson might agree with you to some extent, Argyle. Since the mid 90’s when he did the LST, he designed the automatic ground tracking for the GMT/MXT for Whites. Now, 20 years after the LST, his designs at First Texas don't have automatic ground tracking, relying on "ground grab" where the detector only resets to the current ground reading when you command it to. Here is what he has written about it. _____________________\\ Manual ground balancing capability is important for many users: however some people just can’t get the knack of it and require a machine that offers computer-assisted ground balancing, either “grab” or “tracking”. Tracking may sound like a good feature, but it’s like driving an automatic transmission car on a narrow winding mountain road— constantly changing and unpredictable. With “grab” there is no tracking and you can get a repeatable signal when checking out a target. We changed the market perception of tracking when we introduced the Teknetics T2—customers asked “where’s the tracking?”, we said “you don’t need it”, they replied “by golly you’re right!” and that was the end of it. We may offer tracking in the future, but for now none of our products has it.