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    Astronomy,

    Always wanted to be an astronomer, since a kid many a day dreamed of having my own powerful telescope and Observatory in the back yard. Came close to getting a Meade telescope a few years back but somehow like before metal detecting was top priority hobby wise. Recently, Made a trade with a...
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    F/S DeepTech Vista Gold with two coils,

    Leaving the metal detecting hobby, Have enjoyed this hobby for 25 plus years but with certain priorities not enough time to pursue this hobby anymore. DeepTech Vista Gold with two coils for sale, The stock coil has some normal skuff marks underneath but works great, not waterproof but will get...
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    Few more days be hitting old dirt,

    Hopefully if all goes well will be detecting old dirt this weekend, looking forward to using the gold. Here's a tiny piece of costume jewerly the Gold easily detected when I was hitting a park, stuff like these pieces are hard to get not too many detectors can detect these. Have found these...
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    One lone Barber, And handful of old nickels from pounded park

    Hit an old park an hours drive from my area, been pounded to death but still managed to get a 1906S barber dime, one Injun, four wheaties, five V-Nickels and four Buffalo's and a vintage silver ring. No Shield or wartime nickels was hoping to get another nickel slam. 2-3 years back pulled a...
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    Need help indentifying two finds, Maybe part of musket the other?

    Need help indentying two finds from the same location, other finds from this same area were pistol balls, powder flask tops, half of a gold plated pocket watch stuff from that era but these two are a mystery. Is the larger piece from a musket rifle? The bird from a military hat? Sorry the...
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    Use your favorite headset inplace of stock, bypassing an adaptor.

    Here's a neat setup for those missing a favorite headset for land or wading in water, by passing an adaptor. Remove the coil cable from the stock AT- Pro headset ear cup, Reroute the cable to your favorite headset through the connector inside the ear cup and solder the leads. This by passes...
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    Yesterdays Bounyhunter models,

    Bountyhunter has been around a long time, here's a few pics of three models from the seventies. Surprisingly, they still work and get decent depth anywhere from 3-4" inches sometimes a bit more in good ground. The brown metal box is the Professional model, BFO type smooth operation for a BFO...
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    WTT CTX 6" Smart coil and Wireless module for CTX 17" coil,

    Anyone out there wanting to trade a CTX 17" coil for a CTX 6" Smart coil and wireless module, I feel this would be a fair deal for both parties. Thanks for your time, Paul (Ca)
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    My first Explorer mod 8-10 years ago,

    Here's what's left of my first Explorer mod, originally started with a different battery housing then went with a gutted SunRay stand when they came out. A gutted SunRay stand will hold 8 AA batteries, and still allow you to use the 1/4 headphone plug. You can still use a Whites arm rest if...
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    Detectron, Sixties early seventies

    Whenever time allows, Enjoy using an old detector even when it's a short hunt kind of brings back memories. This late afternoon, was curious how much variance the Detectron models varied on depth and sensitivity to the smaller finds. Using a tot lot for comparisons, Started off with the...
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    California silver, CTX finds.

    Here are some recent CTX Silver finds, Five silvers two trips total five hours hunting an old school. If the school wasn't so far would detect it more often, the two pieces of 14K gold are recent tot lot finds found with my tot lot detector. 1943 silver half, 1877 seated dime 1903 S barber...
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    Question on CZ-3D & CZ-6 QuickSilver recovery speed

    With both the CZ-3D & CZ-6 QuickSilver, are the recovery speed about the same? I ask because my CZ-6 Quicksilver was not operating properly at first, bought it off the internet for parts and at first thought it had a bad circuit board but now it appears to be a bad control panel. It would...
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    Looking for Whites Prizm ll manual

    Picked up a great looking Prizm ll metal detector for my nepfew, rather than get a printed copy from the internet would perfer an original manual. Pay top dollar, Paypal or postal money order. Thanks, Paul (Ca)
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    CZ-3D Pro, Ready for fall detecting

    Well, With the few minor changes thought I'd add Pro to the 3-D. With fall approaching, Getting ready for serious detecting and the 1021 CZ 3-D is going to be one of my grab and go detectors from here on out. She handles quite well, all controls remained above the hand grip so nothing...
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    Rainbow detectors

    Here's an oldie, Rainbow RX-70 from the mid seventies. Dug it out of the parts pile last week, was missing so many parts. Speaker, headphone jack, battery harness, etc and using a Whites 1965 BFO analog meter with a Compass X-100 plastic meter cover got her going. It's a wonderful running...
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    Both CTX waterproof Koss & GrayGhost have good audio, but don't do what I did.

    Been using both the Minelab waterproof Koss & GrayGhost headset, maybe its my hearing but both really sound good a happy camper for sure with either set. The only problem to have encountered and this can happen with any headset under extreme heat conditions, if a CTX user places the earcups...
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    Pictures of vintage Detectron, Garrett BFO & vintage FisherScope

    Here are a few pics of various models on Detectron, Garrett BFO and FisherScope, will post more of various vintage models from different companies in the future from my collection underneath this same thread. With so many different brands to share, Will start with these three the first are...
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    Five hours, My fingers are killing me. First official Headphone connector cover for any waterproof CTX headset.

    Unlike the other days headphone connector post, that was not the type of headphone connector cover I had in mind. Sure, it was simple to construct but really not professional looking. This morning, took the time to construct one from the ground up. A total of five hours from the drawing board...
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    Protector cover for waterproof headset,

    Here's a simple gadget to protect the waterproof connector, Although it's my first one it isn't the final outcome of what the future coil connector shield will be. Ran out of time today so I quickly put this together, my next connector cover will extend further out to cover more of the...
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    Future updates to the CTX,

    Is it possible to update, modify the CTX thru an update using a computer if a problem were to arise? Let's say Minelab found an issue even a minor one, and from an update could they change the CTX to eliminate the issue? Thank you, Paul (Ca)
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