davsgold

On 4/5/2024 at 9:57 AM, Ethan in Adelaide said:

Hi team,

 

Just wonder what are your suggestions or personal perference if you go WA to prospect with what X coils? I have a GPZ and GPZ 6000. I am interested in the 22" tbh but afraid it can be too heavy? 

 

Thank you,
Ethan

Any of the spiral wound x-coils are excellent for patch hunting, and the Concentric for know patches to look for deeper missed ones.

The 17x12 spiral is great if you want a bit bigger but not to big, and I used the 17"cc x-coil as well in WA for good results.

17" sizes is about as big as I bother to go, but this year I'm giving the 15"cc x-coil a good work out in WA

gold took a little bit of a breather for a couple of days then took off again last night

and still dragging silver along with it

and the gold is dragging silver along for the ride this time as well

46 minutes ago, Norvic said:

I am going to get in before Reg..... that`s not a nugget😉

yes your right, and to be estimated to get 30,000 pounds that like nearly $60,000 AUD for a 2oz bit of colour,  I reckon it's way way over valued, tell them their dreamin

On 3/1/2024 at 9:26 PM, Jin said:

I bought an X-coils 20 Spiral early on for my gpz7000. 

Being one of the early coils the leads weren't fantastic, something they rectified later on. The problem was that the lead windings were too big and irregular in size. This caused a lot of problems when swapping over coils as it didn't slide inside the shaft well. I also found that on hot days the lead would stretch out of shape making things worse 

It's been a constant battle to fit inside the shaft and was getting worse to the point it was nearly impossible to use. A while back I attempted to fix the lead by winding it around the shaft shown in the picture and slightly heating it with a heat gun. That worked for a while but the spirals were still too big and it pulled out of shape quickly.

Today I'm trying something different. I'm trying a screwdriver that has a smaller diameter shaft, hoping to create a smaller spiral.  I tied the lead to the driver and then heated it as I wound it on tight, continuing until it was all wound on. Hopefully, I haven't ruined the lead by heating it too much.

*After doing this the lead fit a lot better but is still catching a bit in the middle as the lead has a fat spot, where the lead cable is extra thick.

If this doesn't work long-term I may have to pull the coil apart and fit a new lead.

yep  did a similar thing with a few of the early x-coils, I used a 1/4" or 6mm steel rod to wrap the curls tightly around, and tape it down at the start and finish, and heat with a heat gun, just hot enough to barely hold on to the curls, let it cool right down and slide the rod out, it works but not forever, the other thing is to roll the detector anticlockwise while feeding the cable up the shaft, if it is a bit tight this helps keep the curls tight and not un wind them.

cheers dave

23 hours ago, phrunt said:

I wonder if @davsgold would have some tips seeing he makes them.

 

yep just like in the guys video, keep the metal cool and grind it don't press the grinder to hard and a bit at a time and grind like the guy does in the video

Merry Christmas to all and a happy safe great New Year

cheers dave

sad news indeed, RIP Neville and condolences to your family and friends

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

 

 

 

When I think of competitions I think of @davsgold, his wife is a machine, she wins everything she enters!  She's got something going on.

 

Haha, yes she has been lucky entering competitions and still wins stuff, but my answer is, well someone has to win it may as well be her 😁

On 12/6/2023 at 10:31 AM, geof_junk said:

Davsgold pick I believe was made from the result of Mike "malleyboy" pick made way back in 2010 that he showed me WA and have not heard a bad word about them. I know it was made for prospecting by a farmer come prospector for his own use. So you can't go go wrong with one.

 

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yes geof, your right, malleeboy gave me permission to make the picks like his, just as long as I called them a different name, so that is how we came up with the name "Gold Digger Picks"  I do three sizes, small medium and large and a few of the detector shops in Australia stock them

nice gold Condor, hard work to get it though and a twisted knee, hope it heals quick, great photos and story to go with them, thanks for posting about you trip and adventures

cheers dave

1 hour ago, jrbeatty said:

Just before Putin's "Special Military Operation" ended direct contact with Russia, Reg and I managed to  send to X Coils Ilya John Hider Smith's 36" spiral wound coil for an assessment.

 

 

have you had an assessment on that big 36" coil from the x-coil guys

On 10/8/2023 at 3:58 PM, phrunt said:

I'll just have to make sure I use it enough while it's still under warranty for it to die on me 🙂

 

Funny as it sounds, what you said, but I also like the 11" mono ML on our 6000's they work well for us and at this stage they don't have any build issues, but they sure are built light and flimsy so time will tell.

So far the first one has about 3 months use on it and has had one skid plate wear out and a new on put on,  the 2nd 6000 has about 6 weeks use and going well, all the use has been in WA for both machines and coils

cheers dave 

2 hours ago, Norvic said:

 

I`d love to see what around a 11 inch CC from X coils on the 6K does, have a suspicion it would be the bees knees for depth on "scraps" and larger. 

yes, you and me to, I think a CC x-coil on the 6000 would be great

23 hours ago, Aureous said:

Of all the coils available for use with the 6000, the 11" ML mono is by far the worst. Poorly made with crap shielding quality, bunched or gapped wiring and quality control was practically non existent. In quiet soils, it will work OK but in hotter soils, it will groan like a hangover. This is a by-product of it being a flat-wound mono, they all 'hear' mineralization to a greater degree....which is why neither aftermarket coil manufacturers use this design. By far, the quietest coil is the NF 12x7 mono. I hope that the square-block wound mono design that NF use, will be replicated in their 16x10 and 8.5x6 monos as well. Quiet means stable and stable means performance improvement. At the moment, the Coiltek 10x5 mono is the most sensitive coil out there...by a mile. 

what you describe about the 11" mono ML coil for the 6000 is not what we noticed in WA and detected for at least 3 months out of a 4 month trip in  WA.

I did try a 9" coiltek mono and found it was ok as well but I liked the 11" ML coil and it found us plenty of gold and it ran quite well in my opinion.

WA is not noted for quiet ground, but yes you will need to move some hot rocks out of the way but there was gold under and around quite a few of them.

On the Granite type ground is much quieter type of ground and nearly no hot rocks and you could run the 6000 in normal but on the ironstone type ground it seemed necessary to run the 6000 in Difficult, and on getting a target when switching to normal the target was no better and I found the ground signal would nearly mask the target at times in the Ironstone type ground if running in normal.

cheers dave

some areas might need this size 😁

yes its a very poor article, they didn't even know who found the "Hand of Faith"  well Kevin Hiller did along with his wife Bep

Hand of Faith

• Discoverers: Unknown
• Location: Kingower, Victoria
• Date: 1980
• Gross Weight: 875 ozt (27.2 kg; 60.0 lb)
• Net Weight: N/A
• Notes: Found using a metal detector.

I am liking the 6000 with the 11" mono, getting plenty of gold with it in WA, the only other coil I have tried is the 9" Coiltek Goldhawk, and it worked fine as well, although I found it felt a bit heavier than the standard 11" mono.

This is some of the ground we are detecting on right now, and for the last 6 days between the missus and myself we have 35.5 grams from this area.

So all in all the both of our 6000's running the standard mono coils and the manual sensitivity at about the 3 O'clock position and in difficult, as there are way to many hot rocks to run in normal setting

and this is the average size gold, about 6 or 7 bits to the gram

this is a screen shot of some of the gold find points and the chain line gridding

cheers dave

On 8/10/2023 at 4:21 AM, dig4gold said:

It is crazy that wasn't detected years ago. I often wonder if these kind of "discoveries" are legit & not just to push up a companies share price. Bit like someone claiming a big nugget find with a certain Minelab detector just prior to the Easter holiday weekend. Coincidently seems to happen all to often.

D4G

you make a very good point there dig4gold

9 hours ago, mn90403 said:

So ... how much money did you save?

That means you won't have to find so many nuggets!  haha

I don't know how much a new one cost in USA from a dealer, but here in Aussie they are $349 so for me it saved about $324 😁

cheers dave

8 hours ago, phrunt said:

I hope you're right Rob, I guess I'll soon see.... this little beauty arrived in the mail for me today.

Time to put it up against the stock 11" and the 10x5" and see which is most sensitive, no point putting it up against my14x9" as I know the 12x7 has won already.

nice, I hope it goes well for you.  I know your ground is way milder then here in WA where we are detecting, but can you do some kind of comparison between the the new 12x7 and the original 11" standard mono coil

I'm still using the 11 mono that came with the 6000, I've had the new 6000 for about 5 or 6 weeks now and detected with it for nearly 5 weeks at the most, and it has a bit over 90 grams of gold so far, so it has more than covered it's purchase price.

cheers dave

6 hours ago, Norvic said:

 unless Daves exchange2 extended has this ability. Does it Dave?

all I know is that the exchange2 and the exchange2 extended need to be used together 

download the data as usual with the exchange2 and then use the exchange2 extended to send the data to google earth, well thats what I used to do but the gpx6000 has no such function so I just use the Trilobite on the mobile phone now to keep track of the live and pending leases in WA and it also makes your trails and waypoints which can be sent to google earth.

a screen shot example of the Trilobite on my mobile phone

cheers dave

you can save 100 find points on the 7000 (which you have filled up) and you can save 100 waypoints, the only difference between find points and waypoints is the info that you can look at latter.  And 10 Trails.

Find points have the size of nugget if you put that in, and the coil used and the settings used, the waypoints only have the coordinates

there is a program that will display all your downloaded find points waypoints and trails on Google earth, it is an extension of the xchange2 and called "exchange2 extended"  I dont think ML has it as a option but I got it from somewhere else. 

once you have downloaded all the info from the 7000 onto you laptop using xchange2 you can then delete (clear) all the stuff, go to the last screen and choose delete stored geo, I think it's called

cheers dave

not sure why they have the wires crossed over on the one your looking at, both this one and the one I got have JST connector so maybe you just can unclip the wires out of the JST and put them back in the opposite spots, I've never tried pulling the wires out of the connectors but maybe it is possible as the actual JST plugs look the same on both.

cheers dave

this youtube video shows how to swap the polarity on the JST connector

6 hours ago, gef12 said:

Nice setup dave ... were you in Katherine sometime ago ..?

think have chatted b4  on nother forum ...

G'day gef12

yes we have chatted previously on occasion, but no we have never been to Katherine in fact we have never even been to the NT but it is on the to do list sometime.

yes were having fun and our setup works well for us.

cheers dave