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And I thought the red light meant the collection bag was getting full & was activated by less suction due to getting full. D4G

That's not too shabby. Well done. D4G

I too have been an avid follower from day one. Got lost between fact & fiction but then just went along on the ride & have thoroughly enjoyed it. I did make the odd comment along the way. So thank you Ghostminer. Enjoy your time back home, as in the way you ended that season. D4G

Golds dropping in NZ. Has been for a week now. From the giddy heights of NZ$4074.00 an ounce a week ago & now down to NZ$3830.00 D4G

Nugget Finders early coils were fibreglass as was Minelabs "Dust Bin Lid" mono coils for the SD2000. Nice job on the coil cover too. Fun project. Thanks for sharing. D4G

What about fibreglass? D4G

What feedback was the mop giving you? Hope you were properly ground balanced & not too many false signals. Sounds like you can't get a break when wifey goes outdoors with you. Bit of a jinks going on there. Or are you pulling our legs. April fools was a month ago. D4G

One thing is for sure is that those who haven't had it done will never know what they have missed. So is that a bad thing? In their minds it was never there in the first place. I am one of those & I use headphones. My settings are Normal & Manual full max sensitivity. All due to our mild ground. My skunk days are far far less than my "successful" days. But you don't have to find a retirement nugget to say you found a piece of gold. Can just be a fly poo but I wouldn't mind a piece the size of that snake poo that Phrunt posted up. So while I haven't had the "fix" done am I operating on ignorance is bliss & I am actually missing gold? Guess I should check up on my warranty. D4G

What's the difference? Still bashing you ears no matter what. Ok, I get it, headphones you are more locked into it, but hey, just turn down the volume. D4G

Hey Gerry. I based my comment losely on Minelabs business model of Mining the miners. The future will tell with a combined VLF/PI. Maybe we have the best of both of those already in individual detectors. The direction these days seems to be detectors getting smaller tiny gold at better depths than previously. The fact I think will always remain that no one detector is going to do it all. Still going to need more that one detector & coil combos to cover more bases. D4G

Hang on Gerry. Your question was about COMBINING VLF & PI into one detector. My comment was that Not from Minelab you won't because they would rather sell you two separate individual detectors to make more money out of you. To the best of my knowledge a Nox 800/900 & Manticore are VLF. Nothing to do with PI. So nothing to do with combining VLF & PI. Could ML do it? Possibly very likely. If they could, why haven't they already? Maybe now that you have thrown it out there it may stir things up. Maybe someone else will beat them to it. D4G

I wasn't too impressed at 3.58 when he threw the ring pull from his Pepsi can into the creek. D4G

And to personally hand deliver Phrunts new F19. MMMMmm Sounds like a war plane. War on gold? D4G

Not from MInelab you won't. They would rather sell you two separate detectors. $$$ D4G

Come on now. You don't think we will believe that do you? 😂 D4G

Got yours coming Phrunt? D4G

Gezz Reg. That was a bit heavy handed. You get out of bed on the wrong side, or had a bit much home brew top shelf? You obviously really miss Finders. D4G

Thanks, but I do enjoy your journal. D4G

Thank you Gerry & Phrunt. While the 6000 has been a shambles & a frustration for many, I somehow have not had issues with mine. Touch wood. We do know who the tester were Gerry. Maybe they were just not aware of the issues at that time or ML did ignore them. JP did promote it as being highly strung & on the edge due to the nature of the beast & its heightened sensitivity & jittery nature therefore etc etc. I am not a Minelab basher as such as I have loved all my ML machines. I just don't like their business model antics in controlling their market share/domination & take my hat off to the likes of X coils who developed a work around for the chip on the 7000 & have obviously made a heap of very good coils that has called ML out on their say so that a 10" coil wasn't physically possible to make with the amount of wire winding required in the small space of a 10" coil. Despite them saying they would make a 10" coil. X coils pumped out not only a 10" but also an 8" coil & many more. The CC's being from what I have seen a huge hit. Left egg on ML's face & has basically called them out as liars. @Phrunt. I find it interesting that the bit of gold you did find while detecting with Mitchel was found with the 6000 & an aftermarket coil despite your favoritism being with the 7000 & 8" X coil that found you nothing. While you showed that video of your patch clean up at the area you took Mitchel too with the 7000 & 8" X coil. Who is to say that the 6000 wouldn't have found those with the 10x5 Goldhawk coil in among those thyme bushes? I have to admit that the 15" CC seems very impressive. D4G

Count me out. Sounds like the old Finders forum in Aussie. D4G

See..... You could put up photos of your travels while traveling. Nice. Shame you got no gold detecting but nice of JW to give you a sample to take away with you. Shame he couldn't tag along with you. He would have been a mind/mine of info. Don't suppose you got a photo of his gold, did you ask if you could? The Mitchell Gully Mine isn't too far away from where I am. D4G

Sad you got a dud & also lost 12 months of critical detecting time. Especially as your friend got one quite early as we both got one about the same time as we were communicating a bit at that time. He got 12 months on you & most likely on the ground you have been doing as well. That is my point with the "early bird gets the worm" comment in my earlier post. Also that ML honour their warranties so any issues they will sort out. From memory you were so frustrated with your dud out of the box that you bashed it & it came to life. Whether that was good or bad & that maybe you should have sent it back under warranty, you will never know. I guess by going public that you bashed it would void your warranty anyway. Not everybody in detecting world is evil or has evil intent. That is most likely not the right way to word it but I am referring to X coils (the non evil party) & again those that went down that path, & obviously as it turned out against Minelabs wishes & many others, the early bird again got the worm. I am one that didn't go down that path but most definitely see its benefits. Despite all the fallout from that saga if it wasn't for X coils pushing minelabs hand we wouldn't have the NF Z search coils that so many go on about being better than the ML coils for the 7000. Any innervation, no matter who or where it comes from, has to benefit us detector/coil users. I think we are now all up to speed on Minelabs business model of mining the miners & ham stringing their detector/coil combinations in regards to aftermarket coils that don't get their approval.... for obvious financial reasons to them & their detector sales. Competition is good & are other manufacturers now going to get a good slice of the pie or is it too late with gold getting harder to find by the day. Despite its high price at the moment, the glory days are over & we are just struggling along on the vapour of an oily rag. D4G

MMMMmmmm.... You wait a further 12 months & there will be less gold for you to find. Early bird gets the worm. One thing for sure is that ML honour their warranties & your mates who get the new detector straight off the bat will get the gold you would have most likely shared in with them. Food for thought. D4G

Fair enough. Thanks. Just goes to show, again, that no one detector or coil combos do it all. I take it too that you are talking about totally detecting previously hammered ground & not out general prospecting for new virgin stuff? That is a different ball game all together. In the perfect world we would all love a stable, smooth, rock solid threshold. When pushing detectors to their limits, especially on hammered ground trying to squeak out that bit more depth/sensitivity, the threshold is going to suffer. It then becomes a matter of dealing with that but still knowing what the detector/ground is telling you. Bit like Steve's insane high end settings. Not for everybody & obviously not for you but can be the difference in hearing signals among that "noise". The reality of that "noise" is that it just becomes part of the threshold to your ear & your brain/hearing adapts to it almost subconsciously given a bit of time & any target signals stand out. D4G

Don't you have a "say" with minelab anymore with their detectors &/or testing them? D4g