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35 minutes ago, phrunt said:
No coil except JW's 🙂 he doesn't miss much!
He shows you what he missed every time he goes out but by chance you might find a spot he didn't think of so you are a smart guy. Get your maps, put them on the wall of your detector room and throw darts or read them. You will end up at different places unless you are a champion dart thrower. haha
JW has taken you to spots. Now you know what gold country looks like. Stop when you see it.
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Simon,
There is a shortcut to the process.
Find a spot where the old timers and Chinese were finding gold and then work those places as if no coil has ever been used on it.
Mitchel
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JP and Flak
I have remembered this procedure (in a little less detail) from a previous posting and I seem to balance out the ferrite well.
You may have answered a question for me about other detectors that 'sound off' when making a turn on gridding. I've noticed most on the 3030 a false signal when returning (turning 180 degrees) on a grid line. Maybe this is the detector 'coupled' to the ground and when it gets raised it falses.
I haven't noticed it on the Z but it may do it and just not sound off. Maybe a wider turn is better?
Mitchel
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Well Fred, let it rain. I'll still be able to try it.
This is not a magic coil. It is not going to make me hear any better and it will not make gold or meteorites reappear. If I already have them in my poke I won't find them again. I'm just going to use that as a clue to where there may still be some gold. It seems to work for JW but I don't know if it will work for me.
You and everyone else will know. I've heard from some that find a bit of unseen gold and seen it happen with Chet. I'll just do the best I can and it's kinda like one of those days when you have a good pool stroke or a special pool stick. Things can happen just right but then there are those days when ...
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I'm still on jury duty so I can impatiently wait. haha I hope now to get it tomorrow and use it on Friday and Saturday when it warms up.
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4 minutes ago, fredmason said:
Mitchel
you could send little Curtis over to help ....haha!
He could do it!
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The instructions are clear. My splicer just wanted me to know the female end he will put on the 19" coil will look a little funky near the curl in the coil. If you do the Chet method there is no funky look or need to take any curls out. I used my 19" coil once in the last year so I don't care if it looks funky or not.
Hopefully we'll test everything today. He was busy with other projects before the Super Bowl and then he went out of town. He knows he can call Chet if he has any questions. I don't need him to 'engineer' anything. I just know he will be much more precise than I can be without any type of work bench and he has done hundreds of similar solders before.
It is not that difficult a job as several yanks have done it (even a Kiwi or two not to mention those Aussies who started it all) on their own. It is just unique. Kinda like the coil.
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How quickly will that go away?
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Flooding? Prove it. haha
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He will not be 'short' on the adapter end. It says cut it at 56 mm. He is going to do that. Relax.
What he is telling me is that on MY 19" Cable the curl is very close to that cut. If he leaves the curl in the cable it will be difficult for him to put the female connector on the 19" cable so I can use it again (if I ever wanted to). Frankly I don't really care about using the 19" coil again but I do think if it is working it has value so I want him to put the connector on that end.
Did you guys put a female connector on your donor coil cable?
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He had not cut when he called me. He was just telling me that the coil of the 19" cable was going to leave him a very short straight length to put the female end on the wire. I told him that was less important than cutting where it said. He said ok he would do it and then after he makes the adapter end he will then take a little of the curl coil out and put the female end on the 19" coil.
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The splicer has called and said he will need to take a bit of curl out of the donor coil wire when he puts the female end on the cable. I said that is fine. It is not a problem.
I should be able to test it soon. I don't have jury duty tomorrow!
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Here's a link to a video about what it was like.
https://www.britannica.com/video/72936/life-men-mining-camp-height-California-Gold
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I just looked at this thread again and I was 'struck' by the title. Nice 1 Ounce Nugget ...
Is it possible to have a 1 ounce nugget that is not nice? haha
It's like saying Ugly 1 ounce nugget ... is there such a thing? (I've seen threads that try to convince me that some gold is ugly but I keep looking at it as a beauty.)
Mitchel
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On 2/2/2020 at 1:33 AM, Northeast said:
Amazing, amazing, amazing photos. Thanks for sharing.
Cripes they did some work back in the day.
And we complain about the weight of a detector!
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40 minutes ago, Reg Wilson said:
One can only hope that Minelab's next top of the range detector is half the weight.
If it is not lighter like the Monster and 800 then it will receive limited sales. Will 'lighter' improve coil control? Will a coil wiggle help?
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Simon waited as long as he could to buy a Z and 'played' a long time with his back digging coins and other things. Now he just has to take it 'easy' and take advantage of going SLOW.
Find yourself a spot and don't move your feet and take half swings. When you are done there take a step and repeat.
It might seem that the world is giving you lemons right now but it's time for you to make lemonade.
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Simon,
When you told me your back was feeling that good ... it was probably time to just enjoy it. Don't use it next time when it is feeling good.
Jin said some good things there about the 'adjustment' that my chiropracter friend is able to do with me. There is another specialist you may want to see to get another opinion and that is a DO.
My coil is scheduled to be spliced tomorrow. I went back by the shop on Friday and he was doing another coil for someone. I don't know the detector but I'm ok with the wait because of jury duty and the weather is going to be bad for the next couple of days also. It gives me a longer time to think of the first place to go.
My choices are a really pounded hillside where many little nuggets have been found with GBs and Zeds, a relatively open desert area that has a lot of hotrocks where we picked hundreds of nuggets after GPX searches and pushes or a couple of more distant options that have gullies, deep washes and difficult coil swings. I'll get to them all eventually but which one first.
One nugget will do. I'm not expecting JW results! haha
Mitchel
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How did that new man thing work out for you Simon?
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Dan,
We don't have beaches quite like that here in Southern California. Your wetness classification exists as you described but we have a significant amount of black sand that moves with the wave action, currents and the tides. I try to understand those factors and use them to my advantage.
We have some very large dry area beaches as you describe. These areas can be hunted in Park, Field and Beach depending upon your personal preference. There are times when I stay in just dry sand but that is rare any more.
When in the damp or 'tide zone' I'm in Beach 1 95% of the time at Sensitivity 23. I ground balance often. Mineralization increases toward the water most of the time and that affects the grid pattern of the detector. My most effective grid pattern is perpendicular to the surf line but I will overlap with a parallel grid if there are goodies! The Equinox and the 3030 both seem to handle the ground 'good enough' for me to hear iffy signals and dig them in all metal. I do have more confidence in the 3030 discrimination screen than the Nox.
When it comes to the wet areas I am in calf boots so that limits my surf hunting. There are very few surf hunters around here but there are many more in San Diego. They go out to the goodies in some places because they rarely get enough wave energy to bring it up.
I still use Beach 1 and have not noticed much difference with Beach 2. Swing speed and detector speed make more of a difference to me and I'm generally with Bias off.
My 3030 still 'reminds me' of where the good beaches are because each time I find a ring I put a Find Point on the screen. Rings like certain beaches! haha
Mitchel
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6 hours ago, phrunt said:
Poor Mitchel too, he's got his coil, waiting on his adapter to be made!! At least he can look and admire his coil. 🙂
I'm not in that much of a hurry Simon because I want it done right. I've done and shown him everything you and Chet sent me and I've been doing some beach detecting while I wait.
NOW I've been saddled with jury duty next week which means I have to check the jury duty website each night to know if I have to show up the next day in downtown Los Angeles. I won't be able to leave the area so I'll be watching your exploits once again!
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I also right clicked on the picture of the ring and selected 'search Google for Image' and that didn't help. You can do this on many images and get an exact location or similar item or face.
Try it ... it will scare you.
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8 hours ago, geof_junk said:
"I don't know nothing" but this link might get you started.
I did similar links and searches before I posted. I read about the red there.
My New Steelphase 01
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I use Pat's SP01 and his headphones. They work great with the Zed.
Simon,
Get his headphones.