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Another new/old patch, again today, a good day 7 grams for the 6000 today was a good effort, started on a new/old patch this morning and ended with 7 grams The specie has just a fraction over 2 grams in it according to the SG test and it was fairly deep right down under a salt bush New/Old Patch Specie down deep under a salt bush Todays effort for the 6000 cheers dave

some more little bits of gold for the 6000 in amongst last years old detector holes from the 7000 which was using the 17x12 spiral x-coil 17 tiny nugglets cheers dave

moved to a new camp site and just detected within walking distance of the van today (few hundred meters') just about 5 grams between the two of us. And yes the 7000's with x-coils have been over this ground last year as well and there are still some tiny bits of gold there for the 6000 The camp site Veronica out detecting with the gpx6000 cheers dave

continued on with the patch in the first post first picture, it has given up a total of 105 bits of gold now for 14.4 grams. Four part days detecting it, today was 5 and 1/2 hours for 43 bits of gold which weighed in at 5.4 grams, and it was a much more pleasant day as the very strong winds from the last few days have gone. A few pictures from today you can see the settings I am running on this type of ground and the detector is running nicely and todays result, 43 bits of gold for 5.4 grams, the gold is small but it is gold cheers dave

yep a specie that is waiting to be crushed in the dolly pot, we got heaps of species from that area cheers dave

For the first 10 days of using the 6000 on like for like ground with the 7000 using the 8" x-coil there was very little difference in the amount of gold found between the two machines, the 6000 found 30.7 grams for that time and the 7000 found 29 grams for the same time, that was in WA out from Kalgoorlie. this is the type of ground there, this ground has been gone over on previous years with the 7000 and various x-coils and the 6000 still got 30.7 grams for 10 days and this is the first time I have used it, brand new straight out of the box some bits were quite deep but still gave a signal ever so slight, and what I was doing some of the time here was using normal (straight lines) and if I got a signal then switch back to difficult (wriggly lines) and if an even slightest of alight signal I would dig and it would be gold, if no signal at all in difficult it would turn out to be a hot rock in normal Veronica holding a bag of species from this area and our camp site cheers dave

I don't know to much about the 6000 yet as I have only used it for just under 3 weeks so far, but I do know this, it works very well. Mostly I use it in Difficult (wriggly lines) and get a minimum of hot rocks, when I use Normal (straight lines) it finds hot rock heaven. I don't know if it is "Geo Sense" working, but a couple of swings over a suspect signal, (that's a signal that's not a signal) it just fades out after a few swings. On a signal no matter how faint if it is gold is remains and it gets better after as bit of a scrape, so just dig it up, and plenty of the tiny bits I'm finding are like 6" to 8" deep, and of course there are the shallow 1" deep bits as well that can't be missed, they just say dig me now. So I just reckon I don't need to know how a sportz car is built, I just need to know how to drive it. cheers dave

thanks Simon, and yes I'm glad I waited to buy the 6000 it seems this one is going very well, very happy with it, and that same patch in the previous post that was up 32 bits of gold is now on 62 bits of gold after today when I got 30 more for the day, well it was a short day, just 4 hours as the wind was very bad, like up 60km/h gusts. I put up with it for as long as I could and have another go tomorrow. todays gold was 4.5 grams for 30 bits, and the 6000 now has 50.1 grams for just under 3 weeks of use cheers dave

and another spot that I have been getting small gold from that was very close to or had been gone over somewhat last year with the Zed and the 17"cc x-coil. So the last two days on this next patch had yielded 32 bits of gold so far and have another go at it today to see if there might be a few more.

we certainly have had x-coils in the vicinity and close to this spot, whether or not exactly over it I can't be sure, but there were some detector holes from last year in and around this spot, not sure if they were ours or not though, cheers dave

Start of another nice patch of small tiny nugglets with the new 6000, seems to be going good, but have not tried the Axiom cheers dave

I got it from this place in Newcastle NSW https://core-electronics.com.au/polymer-lithium-ion-battery-1000mah-38458.html so long as the measurements are 50mmx34mmx6mm it will fit, so the numbers on the battery 603450 represent the size in dimensions the 60 being the thickness the 34 being the width across and the 50 being the length

The battery for my WM12 stopped charging and was dead, zero volts with the multimeter so it was either buy a new WM12 for about $350 AUD or try and find a replacment battery. I ended up finding one online and it cost $25 AUD including postage so I ordered it and it arrived and I fitted it, it is just plug and play nothing to hard at all. The WM12 now charges and works perfectly again This is the replacement battery if anyone is interested or has a similar problem and this is the original battery cheers dave

I did at the time discuss the idea with X-Coils for a big drag coil for the GPZ7000 but it never happened cheers dave

Simon, you might have to do the measuring and photos for GoodAmount to try this, all my stuff is now packed for a detecting trip, but I like the idea of this. And I know there are a reasonable few X-Coils in VIC and a couple of guys have 8" ones, but they might be packed up ready to go as well So Simon might have to try and help you with the info for now anyway. cheers dave

awesome idea to use a 3D printer for making coil covers ( skid plates) as we call them here. I'm sure someone in Aussie land would also be able to do this, and even make them for the various X-Coils as well cheers dave

yes Ethan, out at Tibooburra in western NSW you can pay a fee to detect and camp on the large grazing leases (farms) or you can stay at the van park in Tibooburra and may a small fee to detect on the Common, which is an area that people an go walking or riding or taking photographs etc a common area for everyone. Or you can still stay in the van park and have all the conveniences and still pay to detect on the large grazing leases As for the permits to detect in the "Forests" it is all a bit confusing as you need to know which ones you want to go to cheers dave

I can feel a detecting trip getting closer, most of the insurance stuff is now sorted from the hail storm. So while filling in time I have been giving the forge in the shed a workout, making Viking axes/tomahawks and Viking knives/camp knives, and a few other bits and pieces. bottle openers cheers dave

thanks D4G, yes any of those handles on the fireplace tools could be used on the crevice tools also. cheers dave

It's true, I have worked with metal most of my life, well a fair bit of it anyway, I'm a boilermaker by trade, I think it's now called "engineering fabrication" or something. I have only much more recently been forging metal using an LPG gas forge which I built, so in a sense yes a newby at this Blacksmith stuff for sure, but a guy that has been a Blacksmith for most of his life is helping me with how to do things and what works and what don't I made a fireplace tool stand along with fireplace tools which I also made, so I am trying to made all kind of things, most seem to work out ok, it maybe beginners luck. finished with a coating of bees wax while hot to give the steel some rust protection sitting in the workshop cleaned up the three fireplace tools, and I still need to make the broom tool before the finishing coat of bees wax on the stand cheers dave

it sure does take a lot of heat, the gas forge I have goes through the 9kg LPG refills fairly quick doing the Railroad Spike projects. And like you say heating hammering then re heating the oil quench and then the tempering, there is a fair bit going on. and for the Axe/tomahawk punching the eye for the handle when red hot also takes a few re heats to get it done then drift it out to the handle size, all while trying to keep the eye on center is a challenge in itself anyway I now have a pair of Viking axes tomahawks or camp axes, whichever you want to call them, and also a pair of crevice tools now as well, been busy forging and using gas that's for sure the pair of axes and the pair of crevice tools cheers dave

I also have fun making other projects in the forge, mind you I'm still learning and have only been hammering hot metal in the forge for a few months really, but I enjoy it, and it's fun and it fills in time between detecting trips. 😀 Just a couple of the project I have finished This is forged from a Railroad spike and this from another Railroad spike cheers dave

I made up this crevice tool, it's for scratching the gold out of the cracks in the rocks and rock bars. The scraping part of the tool is hardened and tempered 5160 spring steel, and the basket twist handle is made from 6mm mild steel rods. I think it might just work ok, you know those little bits of gold that get jammed in the rocks that the pointy end of the pick is just a bit to wide for. The Crevice Tool cheers dave

wow that is total destruction

We copped a fairly sever hail storm a few days ago, the wind at the start was a bit like a tornado, swirling from every direction and recorded at 100k/h The hail was relentless some as big a golf balls most was large marble sizes, all the gutters on the houses got blocked with hail and the roof valleys built up with hail and backed the water up on the roofs which forced the water into the ceilings Skylights were broken on many pergolas, and some houses got broken windows. My vehicle now has hail dents in the roof the bonnet (hood) and the drivers side doors. Our caravan has a fair bit of damage as well so al in all we have lodged three insurance claims Our back yard view from across the road at the neighbours house cheers dave