phoenix

JP I`ve just finished watching it again and thanks very much for that clip.  So far I have hardly been setting the world on fire with the 19" but you have pretty clearly demonstrated there is a place for this coil. cheers Dave

6 minutes ago, Norvic said:

the polycarbonate stops the flexing

Yeh mate I agree with that.  I have a NF 20" spoked and I thought it was a very flimsy coil until I put the polycarbonate sheet on it. cheers

Norvic you may have hit the nail on the head there.  I was thinking that Road Dog was damn unlucky until you posted and said yours used to false as well.  I fitted the lexan skid plate on day 3 or 4 and I don`t recall my coil has ever falsed.  Road Dog I am not saying the poly carbonate sheet will fix it but Norvic could be onto something.   cheers Dave

50 ounces in 31 days   What a amazing result. Well done 

Terrific finds Chris.  Well done 

Very clever RR.  You had me sucked in as well but you gave me a good laugh 

4 hours ago, whitebutler said:

I found that I have more scratches and rub marks on the Zed after covering it. 

I found the same thing when I put the cover on my 4000.    So with my 7000 I don`t set out to mistreat it, but I don`t do anything to protect it. I just use it. cheers Dave

6 hours ago, GoldEn said:

(Thanks Dave for a memorable detecting trips and for using your 2300- i will be back)

 

goldEn when I read that it was like I was watching a Terminator movie

Have a good trip mate and we`ll see you when you get back.   cheers Dave

I have just received my new camera that cost a whole $13.66 AUD. I think you are better off getting a lower power camera because you get a better depth of field with them.   I have a 1000 power camera and it is so hard to work with to get a decent picture and this camera is only a 200 power.  There are some restrictions with this camera though. I took this picture on a old 32 bit laptop running VISTA.  I have a windows 8 laptop and a windows 10 desktop, both 64 bit and I can`t get this camera to work on either of them. I think with these cheap cameras you need windows 7 or earlier 32 bit.  This piece goes a whopping 0.29 gram. cheers Dave
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152346566053?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Hey Mitchel

another thing I didn`t mention, but it`s something I use ALL the time, sometimes 2 or 3 times a week.  If you are talking about you only want to save 25 meg of data that you have altered, email it to yourself from one account to another. I send from a hotmail account to a yahoo account. That way you always have a copy in your sent folder of one account and your in box at another account. And doing this you always have for ever a copy of every back up you have ever sent.  cheers Dave

Hey Mitchel
For stuff I really don`t want to lose, I convert it to a zip file and upload it to either Google Drive or Microsft One Drive.  You get 15 gig at Google Drive and 5 gig at One Drive.  You can store a hell of a lot of stuff with 20 gig but if that`s not enough you can pay for bigger storage or open multiple accounts.   I also back up stuff on external hard drives, but the free cloud storage is my last line of defense.   cheers  Dave
https://www.google.com.au/drive/
https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-au/

How good are they 

Thanks for posting desertpilot

Nice finds there Mitchel and Norm 

Congratulations Steve, you are onto a terrific spot there.  cheers Dave

22 minutes ago, ozgold said:

I've found a lot of lead nuggets, but haven't taken any photos of them !

 sorry

I'm pretty sure they were all man made

Cheers ozgold

LOL.  Yeh I`ve found a few as well.  Here is a photo of a lead nugget and a gold nugget I got at Kingower one day.  Unfortunately the lead nugget was the heavier of the two

53 minutes ago, desertpilot said:

I've found copper nuggets in southern AZ while looking for gold and native silver. 

I didn`t even think about native silver.   Has anybody got any photos of non gold nuggets they have found?

Many years ago I bought this 105 grammer on ebay and it came out of the United States.   I don`t know if this nugget is natural or tumbled and the glossy side has never dulled so I guess its got some kind of varnish on it.  I`ve also got a 16 ouncer somewhere in the house that is all jagged and rough with green bits all over it.
Does anybody detect for copper in the States, does copper only come out of mines, or can copper just be lying around on the ground?   cheers Dave

1 hour ago, GoldEn said:

 

My detecting mate always tells me it is impossible to get lost in Victorian goldfields and i replied not to underestimate me.

Hey goldEn.  Come on buddy. I never said you can`t get lost in the Victorian goldfields. I said you can`t get lost at Longbush.   It`s only 12 square ks and everywhere you go you can see a boundry 

cheers Dave

I haven`t worn a watch for about 25 yrs and a year or so ago Steve showed how to access the time with the 7000, I turned the GPS on and left it on.  After a couple of weeks I thought since the thing is turned on I might as well learn to use it.   I now know the basics of the 7000 gps and every time I am in a unfamiliar area I mark the vehicle as a "way point".  I have only had to use it once to get back to the vehicle, I was in a heavily wooded area with heavy overcast and no shadows, and that day without the gps I would have set off in 180º the wrong direction.   Not only can I now get back to my vehicle no probs,   I know the time.  

A very nice piece mate. Well done. 

What a amazing result.   Well done mate 

I don`t know if you would call this a tip or a trick or none of the above, but when I had a 5000 I always detected in "fixed" tracking and I would consistently be giving the quick track button a quick hit, maybe every swing.  If I ever got a iffy target I never gound balanced over the target, I would go off to the side and balance there.  And I never pumped the coil with the 5, only side to side.
 Anyway, that`s how I did it.
Dave

I can`t run a high pitch tone a lot of detector operators like. To me that`s a mosquito buzzing around in my head and it drives me crazy. I run a low tone with a threshold I can only just hear and I never feel the need to alter it.
Dave

Even though the temps here have only been in the low 30`s, for weeks now there has been no wind and no cloud so you get to about 10AM and it`s quite unpleasant outside.
I went out for a 2½ hr detect yesterday at the closest goldfield to my house and when I had been there about 15 min I got this one.  Really deep in a old diggers mound.  I took the picture with the microscope because it`s hard to see the gold in this piece, but it should clean up well in the acid.    It sg`s at 1.1 grams.
cheers Dave

Probably my favourite coil was my  24x12 Coiltek UFO, but there was 2 things I didn`t like about it.  It only had a shaft mount on one side and the mount wasn`t in the centre of the coil so it was always toe heavy.  So I modified it.  Made it heaps better to use