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Have a spot around the corner from me that was a late 1800's amusement park then it was a race track until a fatal accident then became a sandpit and now a bunch of ball fields and park.

Figured I would see what was in the wooded areas around the park before things freeze solid here. Found this 1940's St Chris visor pin. Never heard of visor pins until I found one.

Might have a chance at some old coins but there was a lot of dirt moved around. Fields themselves are all re-loamed with typical trash line about 6-8" down and sprinkler system to dodge.

The little things that keep the hobby going.

Nice collection.

10 hours ago, Digalicious said:

Kind of similar:

On a different site, I recall some guy telling people not to bother checking the stones on silver rings because, "No one puts valuable stones in silver rings".

I couldn't find a facepalm large enough to reply with.

I have another silver ring that has diamonds, they aren't big but still. Not all silver has junk stones.

Emailed Andy, waiting for response back.

One thing I hate about the new machines is that stupid internal battery system.

Hit local park before the blistering cold comes and came across this ring I thought was kiddie bling as you can see the plating on it but I saw a 925MO and it rang in like a silver. Acid test was bit off on Silver and Platinum test passed but I doubt it was platinum as it rang in up in the silver range.

Turns out it was platinum plated silver with moissanite stones. Large one is 8mm and retails just under $800. Not bad for what I thought was junk.

Flat pack Lipo LP-904085, 3.7v, 3700mAh

85mm including wrapper x 38mm x 10mm

Seen some on ebay but they are in the UK. Amazon doesn't have them and trying to avoid the slow boat from China via Aliexpress.

Many of the beaches here are pounded by the locals and mostly sanded.

Towel lines and cuts been best for me. Labrador current and rip tides here make wading bit risky and sand fills in too fast. Besides I look really out of place with waders on in the middle of summer 🙂

River hunting I go for the lead edge of runs where you see gravel. If your hitting aluminum and sand your too far down.

Still use my old Whites/Rtg basket scoop, put a fine hole bottom insert for the tinies. Hard to beat a 1.8 lb scoop.

Flower thing might been a hat pin. Usually plated in silver or gold. Those are pretty cool.

That place will keep you busy 🙂

Only machine I regretted selling was the Gold Racer. Ended up getting another.

Life without regrets is always good 🙂

Spent a little time at a permission hunt. Was behind an old barn and dug this post Civ War token. First thought it was an IH penny until I got the dirt off it.

My Niece was nice enough to find a better pic on the web.

Finding stuff that you have no clue then uncover bits of history makes the day.

Looks like it is made in Asia. Saw some noobtube videos and think your better off with better known brands.

The thing that had a stone was probably a rosette.

That field is huge. Looking at that made my knees hurt :0

Looks similar to the one I started with but mine was late 80's-early 90's and had the goofy plastic shaft. Funny how they well they do on the nailboard test :)

Did that come out before the Ground Hog? Buddy has his Dads Ground Hog but I think the pots are shot. Might see if I can get it running.

Very sorry to hear that. 16 years is definitely a great run.

Actually ferous are low conductors so they have a wide response when compared to high conductors. Low conductors can smother the signal of other objects, drag their response down or even mask objects called silent masking. This happens when the ferous object is small enough to fall into the ground balance range of the machine.

Multi Kruzer and Kruzer really shine with 3 tone mode, 89 gain and 5x9.5 coil. Does have increidble separation. Stock coil is ok in moderate/low trash but sensitive to EMI. Depth between the 2 isn't all that significant. I use the smaller coil for fresh water beach hunting for small jewlery.

I'll try 5khz next time out, usually use 14 or 19 unless iron is too much.

Mojave sounds almost identical to the Cibola. Cibola has a true all metal pinpoint, fixed gb where Mojave has 3 settings. Cibola also has a threshold control that can boost target response.

Silver Sabre has the older audio circuit so it has nuances the other 2 don't. If you can get a good deal on one you would like it. Fixed GB on the Tesoro's isn't that much of a big deal on the ED120 circuits as they run really stable in iron infestation unlike the Lobo and Tejon with ED 180 that will pick up on the tiniest bits of crap like rusty chunks, coal, hot rocks, tiny foil etc.

Coin and relic the 120 circuits are less fussy and work well.

I think Glenn and JCR are right it's a soldering iron. I have an antique ice pic and even an old soldering iron put away. There is no way of putting the fat end into a piece of wood as a handle, point side is put in.

6 minutes ago, Geotech said:

Circuits will last 50 yrs or more. With vintage models the biggest problems I've seen are bad coil cables and bad speakers. Capacitor problems are rare.

Carl you were spot on about the cable being bad. I have 2 other coils with similar issue but not sure if I can repair them as they have Garrett connectors.

Thanks for your help.

Be more concerned with coil failure than components. Cables and connectors are more likely to fail over time as they get the most abuse.

I have 3 coils that have gone bad. Lost performance but actually still worked. Took some smart tweezers to them and found that the Rx had no resistance but had some reduced impedance. Tx seemed to be fine but typically Tx have a heavier wire guage.

Opened up the connection on my Nel Superfly and discovered one of the Rx was broken. Looked to be from corrosion and thinking back the 3 coils I have had fail were all in the salt quite a bit and connectors and potting was on the shotty side.

I carefully moved the shielding on wire out of the way and made a small jumper.

Sealed it up with a good dose of liquid electrical tape (possible the best invention in the world ever!)

Coil runs like a champ now.

9 hours ago, Compass said:

Definitely a keeper that covers parking and gas - congrats!

Well it at least covers parking 🙂

Congrats!

I have a Nokta Pulsedive. Nice pointer and built like a tank BUT it is not sensitive to small jewlery like earrings, chains. and I believe other pi pointers are similar.

Between the Quest and Nokta I think the Nokta one is deeper from what I had seen on Noobtube.

3d printed flexible would be TPA. Not sure what your part looks like that keeps breaking but it might be possible to cast a better one out of urethane or silicone.

You have a pic of the broken one?

High end jewelry get it appraised and don't hit a coin or pawn shop they only give you scrap price on just the metal. Not uncommon to have a $1200 stone stuck in $50 of gold.

GIA will run ya $100 a ring.