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Pinpointers in general are more or less a consumable item and will last a long time unless you scrub the hell out of the end or drop them. Garrett has about the best service and customer support. If you want a repairable pinpointer then look at the XP MI4 or MI6 where you can buy all the parts for them. You will learn better from your Mojave and will be able to apply the basics to modern machines. Personally I use my Tesoros more than my digitals.

Predecessor to the Pine Tree, Oak and Will. Think the initial starting bid was 1mil? Remember hearing about it. Quite a bargain since some dink just spent 6 million on a banana duct taped to a wall......... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/viral-duct-taped-banana-sells-6-million-auction-rcna180564

Guess I need to find another trime to be slightly ahead of ya... Faucet think not a tap?

No need to bid farewells, fully understandable to want to bow out but doesn't hurt to lurk in the shadows and toss a thumbs up once in a while. Not a social media fan here either but this is one of the few, very few places I rear my ugly head head. One of the few places where there are some really good people that share same interests.

Hard to beat the Tesoros once you learn them.

The silver bit with the hole might have been a plate that had a screw hole. Maybe from a handle of some sorts? That a half a coin top right corner? Nice run!

New chart using iacs conductivity. Wonder why there are so many using log7 and log5? Thats a load of crap aint it? So fall off has to do more with density of target and has little to do with phase angle relation to it. Thanks! For those that are curious just take your machine and wiggle off a target if you have a dd coil and you should hear and see how they fade.

Conductivity was for the base metals not alloys. Formula on conductivity was off several sites and all had a value*log7 or log6 As I mentioned this doesn't take in account size, shape, orientation or depth. What I do think is if a machine has a consistent swing speed it might be able to also be able to identify material by signal drop. The roll many have learned on the older machines. Many modern machines seem to lose those rolls especially as we muck around with recovery speed.

Clear sounds aren't too bad but hurt my ears, the MS-2 are much more comfortable. If you want lightweight on ear then snag a pair of the XP orx headphones. They hang in back of your head so walking under brush and branches they don't get knocked off. I favor the XP style over all the others I had tried especially in the hot summer months.

Truly an amazing find!

I always wondered why some targets have a tone roll and others are flat. I thought it might have a lot to do with target density and their conductivity so I plotted it out. This doesn't include size, shape, orientation or depth, just a raw comparison of metal types. You will notice when the 2 values are close the drop of on a target is quicker. What is really interesting is Aluminum is slightly overlapped. Also notice how extreme gold is. Keep in mind conductivity will translate to phase angle. Chart isn't in any particular order of metal type. Something to think about.

Replied to wrong thread, some reason the site was really slow loading. Your probably write on the cabin

If legitimate machines it's possible. Ali Express is much like Amazon here. I would stick with suppliers you know here anyways.

Place has been hunted hard but I have been able to find a dime, half dime, seated dimes, quarters, barbers, v and shield nickels, flying eagles, ihp and even 2 cent pieces. One year I found top half of a naval civ war button and following year found the other half at the bottom of the hill :)

Awesome stuff!