NCtoad

Nice write up! I also like programs 2 and 3.

Congrats on a nice bunch of finds!

We all have days like that but it’s better than staying home and NOT detecting! Lol!

This morning I decided to hit a park the next town over. I’ve been there twice before, but never got much. Today was no different. $1.94 in clad and lots of junk. On my way home I stopped at my old house permission to see if I could eek out anything good. First up was part of a silver bracelet. It’s nice and chunky weighing in at 16.5 grams. No marks on the piece I got but it’s silver. Shortly afterwards I got a big signal going up into the low 90s with some iron grunt. About six inches down I pull out what looked like a lock but it didn’t have a key hole. After getting home and cleaning it off it’s an old Edwards Mfg Co No Key lock! What I thought were rivets around the perimeter are little buttons you can still push to one side or the other to set the combination. I lubed it up and the buttons work. I’m still reading up on this thing and did find a youtube video of how to figure out the combination, but I’ll have to watch it again as I didn’t follow everything the guy was saying. Apparently the buttons also rotate and have three equally spaced, very small hash marks that line up with a hash mark on the lock body. If anyone is familiar with how to open one of these please, by all means let me know. Lol.

Congrats on a unique historical find!

Congrats on the sterling! I prefer to dig silver rings marked sterling. They’re usually older than rings with the 925 markings. Nice ring!

Nice SLQ! It looks like it has a readable date but I can’t make it out.

Nice, unusual find! Congrats!

Bob, your finds were really good with the 3 war nickels and the rest but that new permission has me really jealous! Lol. I am eagerly awaiting all the great stuff that’s going to come out of that place! Oh, and we must be close in age…never saw Styx, but did see Journey and Rush and others in that era.

Great finds! Congrats on that dime too! From what I’ve read and watched in videos and the fact that XP hasn’t given any official notice to update from the 1/13 version, I personally am not going to update. I’ll wait until they come out with version 0.7 with an official announcement. And I may just wait and see how that version works before I update.

Congrats on your new machine! If the sites you’re hunting have a lot of targets you may want to give program 2, sensitive or program 3, sensitive ft a try. The full tones option really makes the higher conductors stand out for me. Good luck!

Nice bunch of finds! Is that service button civil war era? It looks like the D2 is working out for you. I’m really liking mine. It’s just a fun machine to use. Is that a predator phoenix shovel you’re using?

I got out Saturday morning to my only permission. Second target was a buffalo nickel on the far end of the property. I then worked my way up near the old house in an area where I had been over before with both the nox and deus 2. This time I was in sensitive, program 2, but in full tones. I slowed down and just dug decent signals. I got an old junk pocket watch, a military pin with an eagle, another large pin that looks to be navy and a small broken pin or broach that looks to be silver, but has no markings. I also got another wheatie. On Sunday I hit some curbstrips in town and got in a hot spot where I pulled 10 wheaties. This wasn’t actually a curbstrip, but was a grassy area in front of a commercial gravel parking lot. There used to be two houses there and the grassy area was the front yards of those two houses. I thought for sure I’d hit a silver coin there, but no luck 😥

Nice! For my land hunting I’m good with the stock shaft, but I’d still like some info on what you have.

Congrats on your new detector Bob! I’m sure the more you use it and get to know it, the more you’ll like it. Since getting my deus 2 I’ve only used my equinox for about an hour. I’m thinking of mounting the 6” coil on it for detail work until deus comes out with a smaller coil for the deus 2. Good luck with your new deus!

Same here. Mine’s solid. If I swing it at speeds too fast to detect with the sides of the armcuff flex. I don’t use the strap, btw.

Nice stuff! Yeah those mason jar lids can be a real nuisance. Finding those items of everyday living from yesteryear makes for some good fun. I’m glad you didn’t hit my brother toad with your shovel! Lol!

I got the rein guide at the park. Found some copper rivets last week and the two buckles this week, so there is some horse tack there.

I ended up leaving the factory screen protector on and I also bought a Deanos control box cover.

Ok, now it’s starting to sink in. Lol! So I guess that’s why the battery on the nox is in the handle. It’s too big for the control box because it’s not only powering it but the coil processing also. Thus separate batteries on the deus divvying up the power source so the batteries can be smaller and fit inside each component. Am I on the right track? Lol

I’m not sure you guys are following what I’m saying. Would it be possible for xp to make a small coil with a cable that plugs into the back of the remote? Not a wireless coil. A six inch coil just like the equinox has. I don’t know if the plug in the back of the remote could even run a coil. The coil would not be transmitting wirelessly, but through the cable just like on any other detector. I highly doubt that they designed the remote to work with a cabled coil. But wouldn’t it be neat if they could? That way guys that don’t really want a wireless machine could buy a wired coil. Plus it would be less complicated to manufacture (no battery, no wireless transmitter) and you wouldn’t need the antenna if you’re wading in water. Another plus is that the wired coils would be less expensive. So it would be a hybrid wireless or wired detector depending on which coil you buy.

Yesterday morning I hit a few curbstrips. Our curbstrips are small; less than three feet wide and sometimes only 16” or 18”. But still worth detecting as I got three wheats, a small sterling cap shaped pin, and a surprise 1867 10 centesimi Italian copper. I also managed to get $6.98 in clad. Today I went back to the park where I dug a slq last week. Today was a repeat with another slick, no date slq although this one looks like it may have been under a burn pile. Also got some more relics. The two little buckles were about two feet from each other and both were deep, but the second one was really deep at 11”. I was using the D2 in a custom general program, but I checked some targets by switching to deep high conductor and park and sensitive just to see how each sounded.

From what I’ve read there are no small sniper coils, like a 6” round because of there not being enough room for a battery. I wonder if it’s possible for XP to make a conventional wired coil that plugs into the back of the remote? The coil would probably be less expensive and you could use it in water without the antenna. Might be a killer coil for gold hunters and trashy curbstrip hunters. What I mean by using it in water is wading where just the coil is submerged. You wouldn’t be able to submerge the RC because you’d lose your wireless headphone signal.

I’m assuming if you got on the XP email list they will notify you when the new update is ready. My deus II with the original 0.6 version is finding stuff just fine. Although I’d like to have the big numbers, I can wait until 0.7 is released.

I think you’re onto something. Maybe deus (or an aftermarket company) could make a thin D shaped carbon fiber rod that just slides inside the factory plastic lower rod. I don’t know if the tolerances on the stock lower would allow a nice tight fit though.