Axiom Gold

[Swegin]

I saw this the other day.   https://www.facebook.com/nikkovellios/videos/374401088251228

 

[Steve Herschbach]

OK that was fun! I love how the guys hands were shaking as he held his fabulous new find. 

[Swegin]

You can hear it in his voice also.  Still nice chunks out there, somewhere. LOL.

 

[Bill (S. CA)]

His reaction is so genuine.  It's why we all indulge in this hobby of ours.

Thanks for posting.  Made my day.

[timbus59]

That was great to see. Thanks for posting. I noticed he turned the DD coil upside down. I've been doing that too, but recently saw a diagram somewhere that showed the top of the DD as being hot too (in the negative spaces of the D's on top of the coil).  I tried it and it seems to work so now I just lay down the detector as is when checking targets. Does this seem like a good practice?

[cudamark]

Somehow I got the feeling it was a bit staged, or, a re-enactment. Why was a camera set up on that spot? Camera views changed somehow.....someone else working it? Hell of a nice nugget though....?

[Swegin]

1 hour ago, timbus59 said:

I tried it and it seems to work so now I just lay down the detector as is when checking targets. Does this seem like a good practice?

I can't answer this since I don't have an Axiom, but I did remember reading this from Steve.  It's the second post down.

 

[Steve Herschbach]

2 hours ago, timbus59 said:

That was great to see. Thanks for posting. I noticed he turned the DD coil upside down. I've been doing that too, but recently saw a diagram somewhere that showed the top of the DD as being hot too (in the negative spaces of the D's on top of the coil).  I tried it and it seems to work so now I just lay down the detector as is when checking targets. Does this seem like a good practice?

The rod connects on top right over the hottest spot. Boils down though to whatever works for you. I don’t like subjecting the cable to constant bending so I’d be more inclined myself to flip the detector over than flip the coil over.

[timbus59]

Thanks for the info. Found the diagram that got me thinking about not flipping the coil. Check out https://garrett.com/searchcoil-basics Near the bottom of the page, they show a diagram with "Negative Detection Fields" on top of the DD coil. They don't look as hot as the bottom field down the center for sure.