Dean Stone

Thanks all, These are the Marlex floats , not the black rubber ones. I just didn't know if they were to have air or not.  They float ok, just thinking, that sometimes get me in trouble. Thanks  Dean

They are the hard floats, they have air values on the small ends. with values covers like on a car tire.

Hi all, hope everyone is ready for dredging . I have a 2" Keene dredge, with the hard floats. Dose anyone how much air to put in the floats? Don't want to blow them up, but need them to float good. Any help would be good, I tried to look on line but could not find how much pressure to put in them.  Thanks  Dean

Thanks guys, I will call Whites and see if I can get one shipped to me.

Dose anyone where I can get a coil end that's goes on the black control box. I have a 9.5" coil that someone changed the end for another detector. I can't find where to order on Whites forum. Thanks Dean

I found one like that, though it was a pic. frame.

They will be kind of big hanging on your head. You could put them in a back pack.  ha ha

As for as a pinpointer, I have a TRX and it will pick up a #4 shot, That is a lot smaller than that nug. I didn't mean that you didn't do a good job. A pinpointer will speed up your dig time and give you more time to hunt. I do some beach hunting and my pointer will pick up ear ring backs when in my hand.

Man you need a pinPointer, You can dig much more with less time trying to find it.

I sure would like any of these treasures,  Thanks flintstone

Still today in SouthWest Kentucky where Fort Knox is you can't go in without singing a paper that you can't hold the USA for anything that happens to you. They still have drills for Army. I have deer hunted there and there is some trees that look like they have been hit by a boom that makes tooth picks out of them. There is still live amo in the mud that can kill you. 

Only way to know for sure, is to cut a small piece off and send to a place that can tell for sure.  Good luck, you might have a good one.

I have used the swivel nozzle on my 2" Keens, but took it off after the swivel keep getting fine sand in it and would not trun. Sometimes it was even upside down and need a big long handle of something to work it loose. They are good when they work, but if locked up then a pain.  Hope yours work better if you get one.  

Thanks All, Don't want to get into a big fuss over this. This is just something I have been working on over the cold weather here. I test  my tailing and lose very little with the 2" Keens, but run slow so not to blow any out. I was thinking that use the same motor as the 2" and run faster would let me move more dirt. The 3" has a 5 horse motor, and that is load by itself. I think I will try the 3" sluice on the 2" frame and that motor, and run faster. I do get good gold from where I go, there was a mine back in the 1800's on top  of the hill where I go. Every spring there is more gold in the same spots I did the year before. Biggest piece is about a 10th of a gram. I sometimes go and just pan when it is to cold to get in the water and get 6 or 7 pieces in a pan. Going to try and make it out more this year. With a broken back and a plate in my neck, some days when it is cold I just can't make it.  If anyone has more info, put it to me. I am 67 years old and try to do what I can till my time comes.  Thanks for all the help.   Dean

Hi Swamp, do you think the 2" floats will float the 3" sluice and use the 3" hose? I have boath set ups, It is just the 3" hose and high banker is just so much heavier than the 2". I prospect in OHIO, and the gold is very small, I got to go about 6 times last year and ended with  1.10 OZ. of gold. Going to try and do better this year.  thanks  Dean

Hi All, I have a 2" Keene dredge and a 3" Keene HighBaker, I use the 2" 90% of the time cause the 3" high banker about to much for me to get to the small creek I go to. I get very small gold at this creek but a lot of it. Do you think if I fit the 3" sluice box on my 2" floats I can get better gold recovery?  I never run my Honda full blast anyway. I was just thinking the bigger sluice will keep more small gold. What do you all think?  Thanks   Dean

Hi tboykin, The Grout/mud mixer, will work. I frond gold with clay and put a half of a 5gal. bucket with water and mix the heck out of it. Take a lid and put a hole in middle so the water and mud don't fly out. I frond most of the gold was just on top of the clay, not much in it. Hope this helps some, Dean

Be sure that if your magnet is just a plain magnet, and not a gold recovery magnet, that you put it in a plactic bag or bottle or you can't get the black sand off the magnet.

About 6 or 8 mi. from Wickenburg is Congress and the RoadRunner club has some claims that they let me pay buy the week. That was a few years ago.

That might not be awesome to some, but to me , I love it. I like any and all buckles. That is a nice one.

I got 200.00 for a write up about the MXT, when they first came out. That was about the year 2000, I think. I still have that detector and bough a new demo MXT when they stopped making the reg MXT. I just got it for a back up, but don't think my 2000 model is going to quit . I love the Whites detectors, I have two MXT's, a Eagle 11 sl, a 5900, a 6000 Di Pro, Beach hunter ID.  I think I have two many detectors. 

Whites is one heck of a good detectors and people to work with.

I have been on here a long time, but don't post a lot. I don't live where I can detect for gold, but I do prospect with a dredge and do metal detect a lot. I just like all the info on here and if I would of had a lot of gold detecting info like you all, I would post more. I do love to read and see the gold pic. I might want to sale a detector one of these days but the 10 post is ok with me. Dean

Thanks Ringmoney, I might just go back to V2 and see what it is. That is one good thing about the Deus it has so much you can do with it.

On 1/24/2017 at 5:49 PM, RickUK said:

It will be great news for many,but me personally i much prefer and use the original version 2,both of my machines have that installed,did try 3.2 but went straight back to the original version.Just my personal choice of course,the latest version may have many new features but its mainly aimed at nugget hunting with the higher freq's,and as a 'general rule' we dont go nugget hunting here in the UK,even if we did it would be with a PI machine anyway i would have thought.

Hi Rick, What does the version 2, do that the 3.2 don't do? My Deus has the 3.2, Do you think the .2 would do better on coins? Thanks Dean