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Hydrochloric Acid  ? 

16 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

It's an inside joke..... the Hoover Boys videos use "Foo Foo" juice (water in a small spray bottle) in the field to field clean their finds.  Bill Ladd makes fun of these guys as he thinks they ruin all their coppers by washing them versus toothpicking them clean, and calls it newbie juice.    

 

Then I guess as a newbie, I should leave my HCl at home when I detect, lol ? 

On 10/14/2018 at 7:03 AM, relicmeister said:

I just got my 6” coil, and a dedicated lower rod is on the way.  To make on-site coil changes fast and easy I came up with the following system. 

   Each lower rod and coil have the cord fastened near the bottom with just enough slack to flip the coil flat for my carry bag. Then I made the straps shown with adhesive backed Velcro from the $ store. The soft part goes around the middle rod by it’s adhesive backing. But then it extends 2” and the hard part of the Velcro goes on the sticky side of it so one side is hook Velcro and the other side is loop Velcro and then  it is trimmed narrower with scissors. I have one of these on either side of the folding mechanism I installed on my box shaft.   What saves time in the field is that these straps stay on during coil change and securely fasten the coil wire. 

   Also, in my case with the folding shaft I used zip ties to make a loop in each coils cord to go where the folding mechanism is where the cord never interferes with the folding or unfolding of the shaft. I will keep the other coil in my detector bag so I can change the coil during a detecting outing it the situation warrants it. 

  No big deal but easy enough that others may consider doing this method of strapping. A

I love that shaft! Is it custom made or where can it be purchased?

What is the "juice" you used in the video? 

Thank you everyone for your comments and encouragements!  

I checked the tracking number today and the pod is due to be delivered to ML USA tomorrow. I'm wishing I didn't use their label (UPS Ground) and just paid for USPS two-day!

Bob'ke: I moved to the bay area of California a few years ago. I finally purchased the EQ800 in front of my first holiday trip to Lake Tahoe area before the snow came - I lived in the US midwest for most of my life and had enough snow to last me many more years. The Northern Nevada desert was a side trip to see the sites, Carson, Virginia City, and the surrounding desert and some detecting on public land. The beach is closer to home, back in the bay area, as I am still learning both where to go detecting and how to use the machine. The detector does live in the trunk (boot) of the car (collapse the rod) except when I take the pod inside to charge. 

Not having anything to compare it to, I am really impressed when using the detector. I'm still digging most every target to see what it is (no big finds (lots of garbage, caps, aluminum, iron,  pennies, modern coins) but one beach I was at had very few hits. It's a public beach and I am sure detected quite heavily. There is a narrow streak of black sand there, quite a ways up from the shore. It was in this sand (using the stock Beach 1 and 2) that I started to find the coins down about 4-6" and they were in bad shape, which tells me others couldn't find them for some time.

Now I'm just waiting (and trying to learn how to research properly to find Northern CA/Nevada sites) to get out there again to look for treasure and do more prospecting 

After researching I purchased my first detector Oct. 2, the Equino 800. The second time in the field, fully charged,  the display faded to blank. Being unfamiliar with the machine, I thought I did something. turning it off and on again brought the screen back. I was on a trip and doing my first detecting in Nevada sun and it happened again. The audio was fine, screen blank. Got home and went to the beach after 10 minutes, the same thing. Reset unit and it worked for the next two hours just fine. 

I contacted ML and they sent me a pre-paid UPS ground label to send the control pod unit in for repair. So it appears, just in shipping time alone, the detector will be away as much as I've had it in my hands so far.

Of course I'm a bit disappointed in not being able to go detecting and am experiencing some buyer's remorse. I am now wondering if I made the right choice in detectors. Maybe in the mad rush of hype and sales of the EQ, Minelab's quality control is slipping? 

This happened to this newbie with EQ 800 when I had a loose wind on the cord and did not tighten the collar locks. Doh!