Found my second ring since I started hunting on 1 Sept of this year..First was a tiny silver one, this is larger and marked 10 K gold filled..Thanks to all your advice, I seem to be in the ball park.My question is ,Does the gold content as purity have any effect on the ability of a detector to find it.. I don't know what 10K filled is,but it sure is not 18K or 24K. All things being equal, which would give a better signal 10K filled ,or 24 K? Thank you very much for your time, Cordially NAD
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10K gold filled Ring
- Thread starter nad
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Said 10K gold filled,something like gay or 6AY under, and a small triangle pointing back to the left..No great value.Bit of corrosion.But, nice to know if I am doing things right...By the way, for you positive thinkers out there, I was thinking ring while I was shutting down the hunting..next time DIAMOND RING..phooey on just any old ring..
Hay Nad,
[size=medium]Jabbo is right.
Gold fill is a type of gold plating.
Those metals vary in their conductivity.
You asked:
Does the gold content as purity have any effect on the ability of a detector to find it?
The answer,I believe is yes.
Gold is a low conductor and small gold jewelry can be very hard
to detect.
24k is pure gold. There for 12kd gold has 50% gold. 14k gold has
58.3% gold and 10k gold has 41.7% gold.
The lower karrats have different metals mixed in the gold. The
conductivity of those materials varies.
Gold can be like a bit of aluminum foil or it can hit like a penny,
depending on the size and content of the gold.
It takes patients to find gold.
I try to show my trash in my post so people can get an idea of
how many targets I recover. But when you look at it, it seems
to be less than I treally do dig.
There is somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 recoveries there.
Doesn't look like it though.
I'm gettin off the subject.........Sorry.........
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Happy Hunting,
Tabdod
[size=medium]Jabbo is right.
Gold fill is a type of gold plating.
Those metals vary in their conductivity.
You asked:
Does the gold content as purity have any effect on the ability of a detector to find it?
The answer,I believe is yes.
Gold is a low conductor and small gold jewelry can be very hard
to detect.
24k is pure gold. There for 12kd gold has 50% gold. 14k gold has
58.3% gold and 10k gold has 41.7% gold.
The lower karrats have different metals mixed in the gold. The
conductivity of those materials varies.
Gold can be like a bit of aluminum foil or it can hit like a penny,
depending on the size and content of the gold.
It takes patients to find gold.
I try to show my trash in my post so people can get an idea of
how many targets I recover. But when you look at it, it seems
to be less than I treally do dig.
There is somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 recoveries there.
Doesn't look like it though.
I'm gettin off the subject.........Sorry.........
[/size]Happy Hunting,
Tabdod
Tabdog. I am jealous..I see all those magnificent items cluttering up your photographs.Paper clips, foil, tabs from assorted cans, on occasion metal slaw from cans and mowers.I only got one tab, one aluminum bottle cap,a rusty key(old style) and three assorted pieces of scrap iron in an hour of hunting...Is there something lacking with my technique?Can it be that this field has been hunted out, with non or very little of those unique items to be found? My DISC setting is just a hair below nickel, so I should be finding more of the items you proudly display.Correct? Just had to have some fun with you before asking a general question.. Agreed the nickel setting,,,,where you find nickels and eliminate iron, will allow you to find rings..GOLD RINGS..Setting the mark in air is different from setting on the ground and slightly different if you put the nickel 2 inches under..You are finding small ,thin bits of gold..My assumption is that you are using no or even less DISC than I am considering.....And, attitude is everything,,,,ENJOY the moment...cordially NAD
Hay Nad,
I think you are doing fine.
I got my first ring in August of 2007.
It was a silver ring.
It lit a fire. I always wanted to find
jewelry.
Had problems with detectors until I found Tesoro'es.
They work for me.
A couple of months after finding that ring, I found a gold pindant.
I learned how on this forum.
When I get some more info from you, I'll do my best to answer
your questions.
As you can see, I am not a long time guru about metal detectors
and metal detecting.
I'm just a Arkie gold hound with a metal detector.
I like relics/artifacts and coins also.
After a while you can get to be very in tune with your machine.
Then you can become more efficient, patient and dilligent.
But like I said, you're doing good as I see it.
Happy Hunting,
Tabdog
I think you are doing fine.
I got my first ring in August of 2007.
It was a silver ring.
It lit a fire. I always wanted to find
jewelry.
Had problems with detectors until I found Tesoro'es.
They work for me.
A couple of months after finding that ring, I found a gold pindant.
I learned how on this forum.
When I get some more info from you, I'll do my best to answer
your questions.
As you can see, I am not a long time guru about metal detectors
and metal detecting.
I'm just a Arkie gold hound with a metal detector.
I like relics/artifacts and coins also.
After a while you can get to be very in tune with your machine.
Then you can become more efficient, patient and dilligent.
But like I said, you're doing good as I see it.
Happy Hunting,
Tabdog
Gunnar of bradford MN
New member
Great find Nad, i did some tests whith the compadre and a small gold ring found it in air at 4.5" fades fast after that if disc is set to F in foil i lose it totaly iven at 1 " now i took my mothers larger gold ring and it was beeping like a pull tab at 5" and i could not disc it out even at zinc penny i also did that same test on a grounds workers bigger gold ring it would not disc out at all so the compadre is very good on gold its just that it covers ground like a turtle keep swinging . Ohhon the compadre you do lose a bit of depth when using the disq but in all metal its at its deepest clearest signals coins over 4" deep fade fast and disapear by 5"
Hay Nad,
Last night I was too tired to answer your question, or even understand it.
You said:
[Nad] .. Agreed the nickel setting,,,, where
you find nickels and eliminate iron, will allow you to find rings.. GOLD
RINGS. .Setting the mark in air is different from setting on the ground
and slightly different if you put the nickel 2 inches under.. You are
finding small ,thin bits of gold.. My assumption is that you are using
no or even less DISC than I am considering.....And, attitude is
everything,,,, ENJOY the moment... [Nad]
This is reflected in Gunnar
Last night I was too tired to answer your question, or even understand it.
You said:
[Nad] .. Agreed the nickel setting,,,, where
you find nickels and eliminate iron, will allow you to find rings.. GOLD
RINGS. .Setting the mark in air is different from setting on the ground
and slightly different if you put the nickel 2 inches under.. You are
finding small ,thin bits of gold.. My assumption is that you are using
no or even less DISC than I am considering.....And, attitude is
everything,,,, ENJOY the moment... [Nad]
This is reflected in Gunnar