Gold Seeker

2 hours ago, Geologyhound said:

A gentleman on another website clued me in that the “tree tap” is actually a brass tent rope adjuster.  No idea of the age, but that style was in use during the Civil War.  I will have to examine it closely and see if there is a patent date or any writing.

From what I have read the rope tensioners from the Civil War were made of wood, here's a patent for the metal ones that dates 1880.

Civil War era rope tensioners were as mentioned made of wood and usually in the shape of a dog bone, some can be seen in this photo of Abe Lincoln in a Civil War camp at the Battlefield of Antietam, Maryland

On 4/12/2024 at 10:06 AM, King said:

Old guy, but new to Metal Detecting. Purchased Whites MXT series 6 at garage sale, almost new. It has standard Eclipse  950 coil. All works good, trying to learn settings for success, Also live near the coast and would like to search in water during low tide. I have read that most coils are waterproof to a degree. Would old timers recommend using some type of "bag" over the coil to insure waterproofing? i.e. garbage bag. Only going in about 2-3' of depth. I know not to wet control box. 

Also I'm in Hattiesburg area should anyone like to get together sometime.

The coil should be fine unless it's has some cracks you can't see or the coil wire has cracks.

Also if you go more than 1 foot deep you WILL risk getting the control box wet, at 2 feet deep any wave can easily splash water onto and into the control box, at 3 feet deep the control box will be in the water for sure!!!

That all being said if you do use it in the water, be very careful of getting the coil higher than the control box while using or putting it back in your vehicle to return home as any water inside the rod can easily run up the rod and get into the control box, even a little bit of water can do damage if it gets into the control box, especially salt water.

I would suggest just using it out of the water, or just very shallow water at best.

28 minutes ago, TampaBayBrad said:

Good idea, thanks. I'm going to return the ML 35 as soon as it gets here as Ron suggested and will order one of these rechargeable ones. Anybody using any of the 3 above that can chime in here and advise on it? I'm reading the Amazon reviews on them, but you know how that can go.....

There's a recent topic on just this.

https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/25926-best-rechargeable-pinpointer/

That's awesome, thanks for posting the story and photo Terry!!

Sorta looks like Botryoidal Hematite.

Do the Barbers have a mint mark?

25 minutes ago, DSMITH said:

@strick who actually knows, maybe they were all to busy celebrating the Garrett's 60th anniversary, to make sure things got done and packed correctly LOL, its anyone's guess

If there was alcohol being served at the anniversary party that could explain the little opened box and the missing items!! LOL

Here's live link to the printed battery covers topic.

https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/tesoro-battery-covers.681121/

That's the very best kind of "hot rock" to be finding!!

22 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I  think you guys are confusing the main Garrett.com website with the Garrett Direct shopping sub-site. They have separate search functions. The way I found the bolt was by putting "bolt" into the Garrett Direct search bar. Won't work if you do it at Garrett.com

 

I was at the Garrett Direct website but the search function after typing in "bolt" just goes on and on and I never get a result, I tried the same with a search for "Axiom" and got the same results.....which was nothing.

Edit: I never give up, I just tried again and finally got the search function to work.

On 3/30/2024 at 3:28 PM, DSMITH said:

That is strange I have searched the Garrett Direct website several times and those parts are not coming up for me but when I clicked the Link that @Steve Herschbach posted they came rite up

Ordered two extra sets, the shipping is kind of expensive for those little parts that could be put in a letter size envelope and sent LOL

Just an FYI, I checked their website and used their search function, which didn't seems too work at all for anything, but I clicked the drop down menu for "Sport Products" and then to the far right I clicked on under accessories "Stems, Coverups And Replacements Parts" and found the Axiom coil bolts and washers there.

I remember when that happened, I also remember seeing all of those photos in Life magazine back then too. 

8 hours ago, GOLDFINGER007 said:

i think what people see on tv is not really whats happening in some of these places,i feel totaly safe and people bend over backwards to help you.

What people see on TV does really happen, just not all the time.

Yes they are good people everywhere, a majority really that will bend over backwards to help you...but in some places such as parts of the Philippines you never know when you may meet up with the bad people of the world who would just as soon rob, kidnap or murder you, so it's really a gamble IMHO and I wish you luck and safe ventures!! 

So just keep your wits about you and don't trust all you meet!!

The UN Blower brush was made to clean camera lens, etc., they are made by a company in Japan who first started making them in 1958, the brush attachment can be remove and use the blub as just a blower for whatever needs blowing, so you can very well use it for starting a fire I guess!!

They also made other shapes, attachments and even some of different colors as well.

Even have this one with Zodiac signs.

5 hours ago, jasong said:

I inherited a few boxes of of older publications from an old oil well log library. Among them is a booklet by the DOI called "Gold in Meteorites and the Earth's Crust". I don't think it's available online though.

No scanner here, so here is a photo of the chart from this paper on the general gold content in many types of meteorites, just for general interest. 1ppm = 1 gram/ton more or less. 

So it seems the iron meteorites are the ones that tend to have the highest gold content.

That publication can be found here....

https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1968/0603/report.pdf

That UN blower bulb had a hollow stem with a brush on the end, it's made so you can wipe dust and blow it away at the same time by squeezing the bulb.

Here's a photo of a complete UN Blower Brush.

Check out Matt Mattson's YouTube Gold related videos, all of these were made and are there simply to educate on finding gold.

Matt and many of his friends found pounds and pounds of gold mostly dredging but he knows how to do it all, they did this many years ago but now Matt just loves to teach others via YouTube in his retirement years.

He also has other videos on many subjects but the following link is to his mostly his gold videos and a few gem related videos. pick and choose or watch them all, they're all great.

 https://www.youtube.com/@flagold/search?query=gold

From what I've gathered, the area is know for gold...BUT the gold appears to not be native but instead coming from gravel hauled in from Scotland to create a railway track road bed.

Whether this nugget originated in Scotland or elsewhere remains to be seen. 

If I recall correctly Dave never did anything at Jason's claim because as mentioned the lack of water.

Jason however joined up with Dave as a crew member on the show.

Not much help for many as it seems to be a private page, and only for Aussies.

1 hour ago, JakeSpringer said:

Hi I'd be very interested in this badge and seeing more of it. Please send me a message if possible. 

The OP of this topic hasn't been back on the forum since last September, so he may not ever see your post....BUT I'll "mention" him which may "notify" him by email and he may return.

@Mongo

14 hours ago, Doc said:

Frank,

Do you still live at 3325?

Keep an eye out in your mail box.  I have something I know JB would want you to have to go with that certificate.

Doc

46 minutes ago, Doc said:

Mike do you know if Frank still lives at 3335?

Doc

You posted a different number in your earlier post/question.

@dirtman

@Mike Furness

I Only knew John from the gold forums for many years and yes he helped many.

RIP John

1 hour ago, Vance in AK said:

Hey Gerry.

I know this is an OLD post, but do you still have this coil?  If so will it work with an SD 2100v2?  I want to take mine playing on some tailings piles here in Alaska this year & it might be fun to play with.

This will help get his attention  @Gerry in Idaho

From what I found online it appears the token is from Salt Lake City and if so I found this old news paper article in the Salt Lake Telegram from 1923 that is reporting on what appears to be baseball teams, one of the teams is sponsored by "Browning Auto", which could be where that token came from, but who knows, I searched for them with "1923" as part of the search and couldn't find any other info.

https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=18989144