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*****REDUCED to $2999 until 05/03 when Ill be listing it on Ebay.******** **Also, I am open to partial trades, but mostly need the cash Garrett Axiom in great used condition (minor wear and scratches from the field) I am the 2nd owner. I purchased it last year (new condition) from a trusted forum member and the machine was originally purchased from a well known Dealer here on the forum. Used approximately 20-25 days in the field. This has been my go-to machine for the past year and the only reason Im even considering selling it is to help cover some unexpected expenses. Really enjoyable machine to use and found some good gold which Iv posted a couple times here. includes: Axiom! 11"x7" mono and 13" DD coils (DD coil only used twice.) Extra new coil cover for 13", newer cover for 11x7 MS3 wireless Headphones in great shape. i only used them a few times as I usually used the speaker or my Sun Rays. Garrett Backpack/soft case for the Axiom all the cords, charger plugs, box etc Under Garretts 3 year warranty until 12/6/2025 Any questions shoot me a message and ill get back asap. cheers! Michael K in Tucson AZ Im shipping USPS or UPS within USA only, Pay pal friends and fam, or zell works best for me.

Any insider news on the potential Detech coils for the Axiom???

Steve, Im so glad you posted these "Stupid Tricks". Iv only had the Axiom out about 10 days (maybe 40-50hrs), so im still getting to know it. Most locations have been challenging in one way or another. Either horrible EMI, wet red clay and fields of hot rocks ( or all three at once). Yesterday i got out with the intention to play around with settings a bit more and try out a few tricks. With regards to the minimum threshold: I found this to be an especially helpful and interesting part of the Axiom to explore. I guess i had not really dug into the nuances up to this point. One thing that stood out was turning down the threshold below 0 mellowed out the EMI significantly. What a nice surprise! I was able to comfortably up the gain a notch as well. Turning to the extremes of -9 threshold and full sensitivity and then backing off each incrementally i found a sweet spot for the day. Sensitivity 5 and threshold +8 (normal timing) This was great, very little EMI coming through, still picked up birdshot, ground mostly steady. Usually in this location and im running at 3-4, so great experiment. Im used to a steady gpx threshold thats tuned for quiet operation and I have had a difficult time achieving this on the Axiom. I wish i could better articulate (Steve maybe you could elaborate) how it is different, but ill just say something else is going on in the way mode/gain/threshold level effects the whole soundscape. I worry that Im not hearing the "faint" part of the whisper of a small/deep target like i most certainly do using SDC/GPX . Taking some getting used to for sure. Sensitivity I have experimented with low sensitivity and yeah, lowering it helps almost the entire spectrum, stability wise, while not loosing too much depth. Although at a point the tiny ones disappear when switching from fine to normal. Upping the gain can bring them back but i guess it depends on the ground/EMI of the day. So far I havent been able to make a faint target stand out that much more by simply turning up the gain. Yes and no I guess. Specific setting adjustments for that exact spot /target bring them out a bit more but I cant comfortably keep hunting in those settings. Seems like I lean towards the lower sensitivity and 3 being most preferable for the average day/conditions so far. Ground Balance Gold Neck Prospecting made some great observations that could easily be overlooked if not experimented with. One being the ground balance. I had the same thought about it feeling like i was using a VLF at times. Sometimes Ground balancing a few times or more in the same area around a target is necessary to get a proper balance. I mean yeah, of course, but its all too easy to balance out/in hot rocks, minerals, and faint targets. (and maybe not know it) Three different balances in the same spot can have dramatically different effects. I have been able to use this to good effect on ironstones and hot rocks sitting together in clay using Steves recommendations. However for me its taking some time to adjust my habits to make it work and feel confident. Im sure a whole thread could be dedicated to making the transition to using the Axiom coming from the Minelab machines..... Anyway, thanks again Steve for eliciting some extra curiosity, it was a fruitful day of experimentation. The big one (18.45g) I hit in the last 15 mins of daylight on the longest day of the year. It was in the middle of a strewn field of large bullets. I had been over the exact area twice before. Two people, me included, probably waved a coil over it and passed it up... It was a screamer/overload and only 2" deep. sounded just like all the other bullets i was tired of digging near the surface (hi-low btw). But since it was my last target of the day and only about 10ft from a previous good find i figured id just go ahead and get that piece of trash out of the way, unbelievable..

Yes that was torture watching the recovery! I thought the same thing.. However, after recovering some "really small" pieces myself with the Axiom, I can kind of understand why he chose that method. The top of the coil doesnt seem quite as sensitive (to me) + the added thickness/shape of the scoop makes hearing the tiny tiny ones difficult to hear. (not so with SDC). Iv experienced this many times now. When i originally pick up the smallest discernible targets they must be practically touching the coil and then when i go to recover them with the scoop, i cant hear them and end up throwing them back, and starting over. Might have to customize one of my scoops for dinky dink recovery🔎 ...

Wow Great shots from some special spots! Heres a few from the last couple years poking around the western states of USA.. AZ AZ Yuba River CA Harts Pass, WA Greaterville, AZ Gold Basin AZ All I want to do is pack up the truck and keep goin.......

ill give it a go on mine this weekend. Keep us posted on what happens when you hear back from garrett or get your machine back. Iv got some weird (to me) audio/threshold quirks that I have yet to understand and like you I dont have another one around to test out against.

Thanks Simon,I did see someone had a bunch of sdc coils on ebay a couple weeks back.... I did end up talking to someone at MinersDen Australia and they said yeah we got one, but because of the distribution agreement they have with minelab they couldnt send me one🤔 Also since mine is the 1st gen they said it "might not fit". Im more motivated now than ever to take the darn thing apart and make a new housing for the electronics..... (now that I have an Axiom in the kit...)

Thanks Norvic, im intrigued, i dont think I would have thought to approach the set up like that. There is way more variation in how the audio reacts to changing those three setting than I would have expected. (or compared to GPX 4500) I dont have any experience with the 6000 yet. What do you think about the clipped threshold Im experiencing? If I crank up the threshold to get the faint but smooth buzzing mosquito its too loud and dampens the sharpness of a target. The difference happens between 17-20. 16-17 having the clipped audio response to a target breaking into the threshold. I guess im attempting to replicate the sound profile of my gpx threshold. Also I havent been able ,thus far, to run up the sensitivity higher than 4 for any length of time to see how that changes the threshold quality.... its really fun to be learning a new machine

Hey Everyone, Just wanted to share some of my thoughts/experience with the Axiom so far. Iv got about 14 hrs on it here in AZ. I was on the fence between buying the 6000 or the Axiom ever since the minelab sale.... Tough decision as the feedback on the Axiom is still pretty slim but very promising. Well I got out last weekend and it was a perfect day for testing in my most familiar ground where i usually swing an SDC or 4500. It was windy and the EMI was in full force. There was also some recent rain which had soaked the thick red clay in many areas. So yeah, perfectly hot and variable ground and EMI up the wazoo... Usually this combination will make me choose the 4500 in enhance/quiet tuned down a bit and not even bother with the SDC if the EMI is too bad. I fired up the Axiom for the first time and went through all the settings. In order to get it running quiet in this setting (11"mono) I landed on using normal at sensitivity of 3. In fine mode the wet red clay was too much to balance in any setting higher than 2 In Normal mode both the horrible EMI and ground was mellow enough to run it at 3. At 2 it was close to silent which was great but I did not trust it to find small pieces yet. Within about 15 mins i popped out a .16 g on a hillside! yay, ok it works! So the rest of the day i had a really fun time going Veerrryyy slow, digging every sound, playing with the settings as I went along. Im so used to the sound of my minelabs with the sun ray headphones that it took alot of adjusting the audio tone/threshold/volume and some time to get used to the slightly different character of the Axiom. I did use the WR-1 with my sunrays (thanks for that tip Steve) but it was still a little strange... What I noticed right off was if there was an adjustment to the sensitivity, then the quality of the threshold sound changed. As well it seemed if the threshold was turned up a bit somewhere around 16-18 and the volume was just right, there was a sweet spot where the target sounds seemed to be most clear to my ears. I am curious what other people are experiencing with the Axioms audio and threshold, please chime in! So I kept changing the volume of the machine, the WR-1 module, and the headphones, the sensitivity, and the threshold and there is alot of variation in the quality of sound between settings. Another thing about the threshold was a kind of clipped/echo kind of break when a small/faint or deep target was gone over....almost like when using my equinox with some of the numbers blocked or tuning down the the 4500 threshold way down. I tried adjusting the the threshold higher than 19-20 but it blocked out too much of the target sounds. I had a difficult time getting the volume/threshold/sensitivity just right. I did not try the speaker yet. Ground balance: I did not use the ground tracking at all yet. I found I had to ground balance quite a bit more actively in this variable ground. (compared to 4500) Hot wet clay-dry hillside- hot rocks etc.. but I really like being able to balance out the hot rocks, very handy feature.. again im so new to this machine i know nothing yet. So far so good! Got out the next day to another location. Very little wind/emi, dryer (mostly) ground. lots of ironstone, blacksand, hot rocks, lots of variable hot spots etc. No wind so I happily used the speaker which is great. So this day i was able to use Fine mode but only at about 3 sensitivity. Emi and ground were too erratic and i wanted to get more time in and find more targets to understand more of how this detector works before I try cranking it up too much (again, great advice from Steve on this) I found a couple of faint targets and changed all the settings up and down before digging. In Fine, the small targets sounded off clear, in Normal not so much. I tried cranking up the sensitivity in Normal but it only helped a wee bit. Fine was better for sure even at a setting of 2. At setting of 1 sensitivity the targets were too faint but it sure was quiet! dug up the two targets and gold yay! smallest weighs in at .06 g Im very happy about this👍 I did scrape down to bedrock in the area and went over it with the NOX and didnt find any other targets... Ended up finding a couple sitting ducks, one next to someones dig hole (so sorry) and one about 6ft away. biggest was .4g and was a screamer, thought for sure it was a bullet at first' So, iv only got about 14hrs on the AXIOM but I am diggin it so far! I tried the ground tracking in slow, which seemed to work well on the variable wet/dry ironstone nature of the area. I cant remember if i was using it when I found the tiniest piece. but did find a shotgun bb while using it so it did not track it out. and I dont remember hitting any hot rocks while using it in this area... Geeesh, i didnt mean to go on such a ramble but im trying to share as much as i can to help anyone who is considering trying out this machine. I know I was skeptical but the reports have been really intriguing. Price point, ergonomics, new variables to play with. My only concern so far is durability. It seems well made though only time will tell. I am so far very pleased with my purchase (thanks to a member here!) I do not think it compares to either my SDC or 4500... its somewhere in the middle I think. And with only using the 11" mono so far, im excited to try the other coils. Another observation is the coil is nice and hot on those squared off corners, it really is a bit different than most elipticals. As well the shape of it helps the whole machine stay upright when you set it down, and thats a nice touch. Another nice feature is the layout of the settings buttons. easy to adjust all settings quickly. I was pleasantly surprised how much I like it. I kept treating the detector like my NOX, and kept accidentally trying to turn it off on the side of the screen, which was funny.. and a nod to how light it is.. Anyway, hope theres at lest a helpful nugget in all that somewhere... Id love to hear what others are experiencing with the audio settings especially the threshold and sensitivity variables..

Congrats and good luck Ed! The day I received my 1st PI ( Gpx 4500) was the turning point for me being able to find nuggets! I think partially it was psychological... it boosted my confidence knowing I had a capable machine, made me focus and dedicate more time and energy which in turn equalled more and more finds. Keep us posted on the AXIOM!

Hey, I recently overworked my SDC and broke the "coil yoke adapter". I contacted Minelabs service department here in the USA and inquired about purchasing the part and getting it sent to me so I could get back up and running. After talking to the very helpful Tech, they said that unfortunately it would take months to order the part, and basically would not offer any solution except for me to send my unit in for repair. $375 for a new coil assembly + 1hr labor +shipping.... As well, they would not sell me the coil assembly. hhhmmm I was a bit disappointed as I have had good experiences with the service department there before. Seems like overkill to send my unit back for the replacement of a simple part. As well, Im not sure why they wouldn't sell me a coil assembly if nothing else. I watched a video from Miners Den Australia of a tech replacing this exact part, so I know its available and not a tech only repair kind of thing. Sooooo..... Would anyone here know of where and how I might obtain this very rare and hard to find SDC part called the "coil yoke adapter" and its associated O ring? I tried to epoxy the cracked parts but it does not take, maybe im using the wrong kind of adhesive? Any advice on a possible fix would be welcomed😃 ----- As a side note: It was a perfect opportunity (excuse?) to try out the Coiltek kit and 10x5 coil which I purchased as soon as I got off the phone with Minelab.... I tried it out and its great! I prefer the coil being centered on the shaft for poking fwd and back and while scrubbing the coil up a steep bank. Its just as or more sensitive, stable, and capable of a coil. (found some tiny shallow pieces and one .3 at good depth). I just would like to be able to put the machine back to stock at some point... Cheers!

thanks yeah, ill look up the cupeling, i once tried it with portland cement and some weird low grade galena/gold ore.... maybe with some upgraded materials (and safety equipment) that just might be the ticket.. Heres a few Jewelry shots for ya, cheers! Hope to do more gold soon...

Hey, yeah I have all the necessary tools, rolling mill, etc, crucible, fluxes, borax, etc. So far each of my batches (ingots/ round stock) have turned out brittle when worked with a hammer, or rolled in the mill. I have been melting silver and gold and making jewelry for years with few issues. Only when I use the rough little nuggets from southern arizona does it seem to be a problem due to quartz or iron inclusions (I am assuming) which are not fully removed by the borax and fluxes. I have tried, a variety of fuels/temps, fluxes, pouring into water, slow cooling, quenching, annealing, ran the same gold multiple times though the process.... always brittle. I have not tried grinding to a powder or aqua regia or electrolysis.... yet... haha..

thanks guys, wish me luck, this is a rabbit hole for sure... Has anyone else experimented with smelting, refining, and working (jewelry) with placer gold?

Hey All, Iv been trying to locate a Refiner here in the USA that can process a small batch of placer gold (2oz) and fabricate some 18/22k jewelry stock. I am an amateur jeweler and have tried many times to smelt my hard earned gold into some usable material and have not had any luck thus far. So, I know I can send it off to a refiner and get generic stock back but the point is to use my own gold for some special pieces. I know someone else out there has gone down this road before, and i would so appreciate a lead on a reputable refiner/fabricator. cheers!