Original Gold Bug Instructions Video

[Lucky redd]

I recently purchased the original gold bug and can’t find a video on how to set it up and use it please help

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[Steve Herschbach]

When you say original Gold Bug do you mean the 1990 analog model or the first digital version? The link to the manual for the original Gold Bug (analog) is in the post above and is where you need to start. The only Fisher video about the model simply showed how to put it together and not worth watching even if you could find it. The machine was one of several featured in an old VHS video Gold Nugget Prospecting : Metal Detecting With The Pros* but never made it to DVD or YouTube as far as I know.

You best bet is the book Advanced Nugget Hunting With the Fisher Gold Bug Metal Detector by Pieter Heydelaar & Dave Johnson is an excellent primer on the use of the original Gold Bug model, linked below.

There is not much to tune. Put it in Motion Mode. Turn Volume and Sensitivity to max. Set Threshold for a barely audible buzz. Ground balance properly (see manual). 

 

*Gold Nugget Prospecting: Metal Detecting with the Pros

Authors: Ronald W Driscoll; Kathleen Driscoll; Brent Reason; Graham Alcock; Larry Sallee

Publisher: Westwood Production Co. Prescott, AZ © 1994

Summary: You'll learn detector set up, basic research, dealing with hot rocks, types of ground to look for, where to go, coil control, patch gridding, implements needed, and view a small commercial operation using a metal detector. Featuring Larry Sallee, author of the book Zip Zip: Mastering Your Nugget Detector showing how to detect with the White's Goldmaster II, Bob Gutowski a.k.a. Nugget Bob with his Fisher Gold Bug, Floyd Allen a.k.a. Frugal Floyd with his Minelab XT 17000, and Glen Anderson with his Tesoro Lobo. All filmed in the field in Arizona.