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Tesoro info needed.
- Thread starter Tony-Ok
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Picketwire
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The Eldorado can discriminate all iron. The Bandido 2 discs out small nails. The Bandido also has both fast retune motion and no motion all metal while the Eldorado just has fast retune. The Eldorado can be shifted between 3 different slightly different frequencies while the Bandido uses only one. The actual frequencies may differ slightly too but I am not sure.
Hey Picketwire, thanks for the info! Never had a Tesoro, but am contemplating about getting one !
Odanscoils
Well-known member
This about the Last of anything New Tesoro.Hey Picketwire, thanks for the info! Never had a Tesoro, but am contemplating about getting one !
Tesoro Tejon Black Metal Detector
Tesoro Tejon Black Metal Detector with 11" x 8" Search Coil, Coil Cover, Instruction Manual, Tesoro Metal Detector The Tejon features Dual ED180 Discrimination Circuits, Easy To Use Trigger Mode Switch, MAXBoost Sensitivity, Adjustable Audio Tone Control, high output transmit oscillator, and 3...
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Tony they were great machines - If you can find you a Vaquero, Cibola, Outlaw or Tejon or even the Silver Umax you can't go wrong. I really think if Tesoro could have released an updated weather proof model they might still be around. They just took their foot of the gas for too long and couldn't compete any longer. Their machines are still fast, deep, and incredible accurate on tones alone. I never used a pinpoint button on mine I could tell exactly wear to dig just by doing the classic X with the concentric coils to locate objects.Hey Picketwire, thanks for the info! Never had a Tesoro, but am contemplating about getting one !
fwcrawford
Well-known member
I agree…. They made some great detectors… I hated to see them close down.
I still have two of them… a Vaquero and a Sand Shark and they are still working fine.
I like the Vaquero around old house sites in the woods… no need for a VID detector there I my opinion.
I still have two of them… a Vaquero and a Sand Shark and they are still working fine.
I like the Vaquero around old house sites in the woods… no need for a VID detector there I my opinion.
Odanscoils
Well-known member
I'm loving Tesoros.
Wish I had bought them sooner.
Picked up the Mojave a few months before they closed. Best machine I own in nails. Punches right on through them. Not a peep. Love it.
A few weeks ago I purchased the Tejon from my post above.
Stock 8×11 DD coil.
Seems a little twitchy. Though I'm learning the controls and it smoothing out.
Ordered the Nel Sniper coil. 3.5×6.5"
Anxious to see how that works in nails.
Have an old bar site loaded with pulltabs and beer bottle caps. Hopefully the Tejon does well there.
Love to find another Mojave.
Wish I had bought them sooner.
Picked up the Mojave a few months before they closed. Best machine I own in nails. Punches right on through them. Not a peep. Love it.
A few weeks ago I purchased the Tejon from my post above.
Stock 8×11 DD coil.
Seems a little twitchy. Though I'm learning the controls and it smoothing out.
Ordered the Nel Sniper coil. 3.5×6.5"
Anxious to see how that works in nails.
Have an old bar site loaded with pulltabs and beer bottle caps. Hopefully the Tejon does well there.
Love to find another Mojave.
Odanscoils
Well-known member
So I received the Sharp coil today.
Played around the house a bit.
Tejon not twitchy anymore.
All metal see every single Nail.
Toggle forward disc just above iron.
Knocks out the nails beautifully.
Being brand new to the Tejon.
I'm gonna need some time evaluating the Sharp.
Though just poking around the house.
Very smooth and accurate.
The stock coil I couldn't run it inside.
Played around the house a bit.
Tejon not twitchy anymore.
All metal see every single Nail.
Toggle forward disc just above iron.
Knocks out the nails beautifully.
Being brand new to the Tejon.
I'm gonna need some time evaluating the Sharp.
Though just poking around the house.
Very smooth and accurate.
The stock coil I couldn't run it inside.
Picketwire
Well-known member
It should do well. Pull the trigger back and a bottle cap is much wider than a coin. If the pull tabs are too close together, I think you would have better luck with the Mojave by discing them out.
Odanscoils
Well-known member
How do you think the Sniper coil will do ?
I really hate discing out pull tabs.
Lottsa gold there.
So far getting to know the Tejon it's doing most everything the Mojave can do.
With the Sniper I feel it will get up close to fences and steel posts. Though I'll have to try that out yet.
Odanscoils
Well-known member
Obviously I'm completely new to the Tejon.
Had it a couple weeks now.
Pulling toggle back is all metal ?
I've used it to GB so far.
Trying to get thru the Tejon tips book.
Need a nice day outside while studying the book.
Though experience is the best teacher.
Anything your willing to share.
I'm All Ears !!!
Picketwire
Well-known member
I think the Sniper will do very well. If pull tabs are laying flat, by sweeping very slow over the top of them, you can tell one side is narrower than the other whereas a coin or ring will sound the same no matter which way you sweep. Aluminum also seems to have more of a "crack" at the beginning and ending of the tone. If you use the pull back method, coins seem to keep the tone until it goes out from under the coil. Aluminum seems to trail off more. Turning down sensitivity can help at times too by cutting falsing somewhat and it seems to make for smaller coverage when things are very close together. If you start pulling too many tabs, set the second disc to cut them out kind of like a coin check. After learning the sounds, you probably won't use it.
What the Mojave along with other 5 pin tesoro detectors can do is they can disc out pull tabs and still detect all our Ametican coins except nickel when they are in very close proximity. I can detect a coin with the Outlaw in a pile of tabs. Take the coin out and silence. The Mojave is almost as good. The Tejon has trouble when there are tabs under the coil with a coin just like most modern detectors. I like to make a square with pull tabs on each corner and a dime in the middle and keep making the square smaller until nothing I can do will detect the coin. The Outlaw, Compadre and Mojave will all detect the coin with the tabs all touching the dime. My Tejon and none of my other brand detectors will do this and I have ones from Nokta, Makro, Teknetics, Fisher and Garrett.
What the Mojave along with other 5 pin tesoro detectors can do is they can disc out pull tabs and still detect all our Ametican coins except nickel when they are in very close proximity. I can detect a coin with the Outlaw in a pile of tabs. Take the coin out and silence. The Mojave is almost as good. The Tejon has trouble when there are tabs under the coil with a coin just like most modern detectors. I like to make a square with pull tabs on each corner and a dime in the middle and keep making the square smaller until nothing I can do will detect the coin. The Outlaw, Compadre and Mojave will all detect the coin with the tabs all touching the dime. My Tejon and none of my other brand detectors will do this and I have ones from Nokta, Makro, Teknetics, Fisher and Garrett.
Odanscoils
Well-known member
Pull tabs around the coin.
With the Tejon would the Sniper coil make a difference ?
What coils have you run on the Mojave ?
Here's what I have.
I love that little 5" coil upper right.
Even Hits mineralization in rocks I've been cking for gold and other minerals.
Wish there was someway to get them on the Tejon.
I bought the Tejon primarily to go deeper in iron and nails to hit good targets.
And hopefully hit earrings on an iron infested beach.
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Picketwire
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Tesoro made a concentric coil for the Tejon that was the same size as your little 5" one in the picture. If you find one you are lucky. It is what is usually installed on my Tejon. The sharp coil you just purchased should also be excellent for picking through trash. Your stock coil works quite well in iron too if you turn down sensitivity. Turn any high powered detector to full sensitivity and watch the numbers jump around without even being on the ground. I have the same size coil for the Outlaw and it very good in trash.
I have used the stock coil mostly on the Mojave but also the 5" and 8" concentric and the cleansweep. I don't use it as much as the Outlaw as I like both all metal modes. The Tejon is deeper and more powerful than the Mojave and Outlaw or any of the "epsilon" detectors but for picking things out of heavy nails and iron trash, which I think is pretty rare, I think the epsilons win. It is just two different tools that excell in different areas.
I have used the stock coil mostly on the Mojave but also the 5" and 8" concentric and the cleansweep. I don't use it as much as the Outlaw as I like both all metal modes. The Tejon is deeper and more powerful than the Mojave and Outlaw or any of the "epsilon" detectors but for picking things out of heavy nails and iron trash, which I think is pretty rare, I think the epsilons win. It is just two different tools that excell in different areas.
Odanscoils
Well-known member
Thank You again.
I've been looking for Tesoro coils for the Tejon.
Nothing.
I tried the dime box thing on a naily wood floor.
I can get the dime barely with the Tejon.
Very touchy adjustment.
But a nickel. LoL
Even the Mojave had real trouble on the nickel.
Do more experiments with rusty nails and stuff from my junk box I use for setting up at locations.
Yup. I carry baggies of good and bad items to set-up my machines for each location.
Some soils I've found change tones and VDI's just enough to throw me off.
Gonna poke around in the yard today.
Wasn't thinking while I was laidup.
Forgot to renew my beach and parks permit.
Darn.
Hopefully I can do it late.
That graphite is a pain on my favorite pain in the butt beach.
Stuff from my last hunt which was two years ago.
Funny
Every pulltab and pull ring on the same site same weekend. Are all different. I just noticed that.
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Picketwire
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I can tell already you will do just fine! The Tejon, in my opinion, is an excellent detector. I was going to say just practice with junk but you are way ahead of me there. Good luck! I hope you find a fortune.
Odanscoils
Well-known member
Thanks
Me too
Odanscoils
Well-known member
Playing with the Tejon and Sniper coil
Just outside a Substation.
33 thousand volts going in and 13.2 thousand volts coming out. The 33KV and 13.2 KV.
At the main gate. About 30 ft from the 2 500KW
Stepdown transformers.
Ran beautiful like the Mojave in same location.
Sadly nothing worth saving.
If it didn't suddenly down pour. I'd off took pics.
Still can't get video up on my YoTub account.
Do I have to Pay first ???
Next couple weeks I'll try much Older substations.
Got the Sniper on my Best beep an dig machine today. Sovereign GT.
If it stops raining.
I'm Anxious to get the Beast out.
In the house full of interference.
WiFi in the room,two cell phones and house wiring.
Over a very many nails wood floor.
Solid Null !!
Hits US coins at 6+ inch's cleanly.
Yup
Can't wait to get this combo out in the field.
This Nel Sniper coil on both machines are making my day. Impressed am I ...
