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I haven`t worn a watch for maybe 30 years and I don`t carry a GPS so I find the GPS on the 7000 very helpful. I have my user button set to the GPS. Most of the time I run the 7000 with the gps off, but if I want to know the time or I`m using the gps to find the vehicle, or to mark a way point or find, it`s very easy to turn the gps on and off. I hope you get some gold today Mitchel. ? Dave

Hey Mitchel, sorry you haven`t found any yet, welcome to Victoria. Mate up at Inglewood I`ve never got much more than color, but I have friends that have done very well there. To give you a word of advice, at Inglewood make sure you mark your vehicle on a gps. There are huge areas in Inglewood where if you walk 50 feet from your car you wont be able to see it and particularly if it is a overcast day and you don`t even have the sun as a reference you could wander around for hours and have no clue where you are. One day up there I plotted the vehicle into the gps on the 7000 and I was just head down and wandering and at the end of the day the GPS was telling me I had to go in the exact opposite direction to where I thought I had to go. The gps was right. I was wrong. Best of luck tomorrow mate ?

I never understood why Minelab took the word "target" out. I know when I call it target volume I`m calling it the wrong name, but I`m OK with that. Dave

Yeh the very first time I used a WM12 I decided I wanted to run 2 and I was horrified when I discovered recommended retail was $375, but about 2 years ago I found a new one on ebay for $308 so I grabbed that one. If one of my WM12`s were to fail now I would replace it without question.

No mate, I run twin shoulder mounted WM12`s, I`m running a volume limit of 4, I let the background static dictate the gain, this bit yesterday the gain was 7 and I`m now running a target volume of 2 and I have threshold set so I can just barely here it. cheers Dave

I`m sure some will remember when the 7000 first came out I was not a big fan of it, but here it is 4 and a bit years later it`s obvious to me the fault was with the operator, not the detector. Just lately I`ve lifted my game again with the 7000, I`ve cranked the gain a bit and cut target volume down to almost nothing and I now always work very slow, and it amazes me some of the pieces I am now getting at depth that I had previously missed. This is not a big piece by any stretch of the imagination, but for the most part, I am detecting ground that in the last 40 years has seen literally thousands of detectors. This one was the tiniest break in the threshold and down about 6 or 7" in very hard ground. Hopefully there is a big bit waiting for me ?

Yeh Rob, I remember that. When they announced the release of the 7000 they said there would be a 11" and 20" as extra coils. Down the track the 20" became a 19" and the 11" drifted off into the sunset. I was told about 3 years ago and I really have no idea if there is any truth to it, that Minelab gave up on the 11" because it kept overloading the detector. Dave

I agree with that 100% JW. My comments were not directed at anybody. I`ve seen quite a few people on different forums say "my detector is out of warrenty anyway" The thought I have had for a long time and I wanted to express it is, if Minelab is going to void warranties I expect they will also NOT repair detectors that have had unsanctioned coils hanging off them. I think people should at least consider that. Dave

I`m still not getting out for a great deal of hours and it is ages since I got a nice piece at depth but I went out for about 1½ hours yesterday and got one similar to the last one I got. The bottom one is yesterdays piece. It was only 1" down and a very iffy signal with the 7000. These two came from 2 different spots maybe 5 miles apart.

I`ve been told the 10x5 is a killer coil on the small stuff. It`s probably the one I`ll get.

Simon I did not at all follow what you just said but IF you have a modified GPX and you send it to minelab for repair, Minelab will not look at it

Maybe something to think about. Bearing in mind I am probably going to get these new coils for the 23 and 7 myself, people should at least consider, a lot of people are saying something along the lines of "my detector is out of warranty anyway, so I`m not risking anything fitting these new coils", but, it is Minelabs policy to not repair any modified Minelab detector. I daresay that if you were to send a out of warrenty 2300 or 7000 back to Minelab for repair and Minelab saw you were running a unsanctioned coil, they wont repair the detector. You could end up with a 4K or 10K detector that all it`s good for is to fill it with concrete and use it as a anchor. Like I said, I am probably going to get the coils myself, but I will be doing it with the idea that if either detector fails I will probably have to throw it away, and that`s on me and no one else. I have no reason to suspect the coils are going to cause any damage and I wish Coiltek and davsgold nothing but success with these new coils. X Coil 2021 News

goldEn is back in town for a couple of weeks and managed to get out my place for a couple of days. Today we went to a Ironbark forest where there was a little bit of surfacing so goldEn could use the 2300 and I detected in the forrest with the 7000. I got one of those really iffy signals that I thought was ground noise and when I approached it at 90º I couldn`t hear it at all.I scraped a bit of dirt and same thing, could hear it one way but not the other. As the hole got deeper the signal seemed to move in the hole. First it was in one spot, then in another spot and it never sounded like a real target. When I finally got it out of the hole I couldn`t hear it at all, but I move a bit a bit of dirt and I can hear something, move a bit more dirt and I couldn`t hear it again. From when I first detected it to holding it in my fingers was about 15 minutes and it goes a whopping 0.12 gram and is about ¼" long. Good to see you again goldEn ?

I still haven`t received mine. Estimated delivery is now showing April 16 to May 7

In AUD they`re asking about 45% over spot, but even at that I think they`re drawing a long bow, but best of luck to them, I hope they get it.

Mitchel I don`t know about any caravan parks but all Mickey Dee's have free wifi and the are 5 around Bendigo. Dave

hey Simon . Yeh mate i`ll let you know how it goes. Estimated delivery is 3 days to 3 weeks which kind of tells me it`s not being posted from Australia. The test for me will be how long it takes to charge. I run twin WM12`s and the newer one charges in about a quarter of the time the older one takes. And look as I might, I could not find the genuine thing in any google search. It`s bound to be there somewhere but I couldn`t find it. Dave

Thanks for that JW and Steve. It took me a while to find the battery on Ebay. This seller is apparently in Australia but the name of the store is Battery UK. Anyway, where ever the battery is coming from, I bought one.? Dave https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Replacement-Battery-For-MINELAB-0303-0036/302942371755?hash=item4688c5bfab:m:mCM_WXg0clnpJ4fQMkIMQ9A

The 7000 has been out for 4 years now and my original WM12 is taking forever to charge. Somewhere on Steves forums is a parts list for the WM12 and I have no idea how to find it. Could somebody put up a link to the parts list please. Thanks. Dave

My apologies to both Klunker and Lunk. I`m not real bright

I may be wrong but I believe this specimen with 72 ounces of gold in it was found at Poseidon only a few years ago by the people that now have the lease there

ah but there`s the thing Lunk. I have never been able to solve a rubix cube in my life. The only reason I own that rubrics cube is one day, on a completely unrelated search, I came across a site that claimed to be able to solve any rubics cube in 19 moves or less, and I bought the cube to see if it was true. It is ? http://rubiksolve.com/

hey Gerry. We tested it yesterday against a 2300 and the 7000 could get it a tad deeper but there wasn`t a lot in it. Dave

Because of heat waves, vehicle trouble and well, almost a complete lack of motivation, I have done very little detecting this year. In the early days of the 5000 I got the bigger speci at Moliagul and it`s got about half a gram of gold in it. Since then I have gone over and over and over that area with the 5000, 2300 and 7000 for no result. Yesterday I was out there again and about 15 feet from the first specimen, I got the smaller one with the 7000. Very faint signal that just broke the threshold and about 6" deep. The bottom picture is the only bit of gold visible in it and is almost impossible to see with the naked eye, but the signal it`s giving off says there`s maybe a half a gram to a gram of gold in it. Once the better half has seen it I`m going to bust it open to see what`s inside but I think with this one I`m going to end up with a heap of small bits of quartz with a little bit of gold in them. Dave

Condor what an amazing story. Do you ever have any drama getting back into the states? My entire knowledge of crossing the US-Mexico border is from watching Sicario and Sicario II. By the way, very nice gold ?