1266x disc settings in my dirt

[WV62]

Just thought I would pass this information on, everybody may have already figured this out but for me the light bulb just came on. When hunting with the 1266x and I wanted to find nickels I would pull a nickel out of my pocket throw it on the ground adjust disc 2 just under the nickel and take off hunting and not find a lot of nickels.

Today I took the 1266x, a nickel and a hand digger out in my yard and dug a small hole, and put the nickel next to the hole and adjusted disc 2 right to the edge of rejection and noted the disc setting was 6. So with the nickel in the same spot next to the hole I took the dirt out of the hole and piled it up on the nickel and run the detector over it and noticed that the detector was now rejecting the nickel. I again adjusted the disc right to the edge of rejection and noted the disc setting which was about 5 1/4. Is there any doubt why I was not getting a lot of nickels?

Now I did the same thing with a zinc penny and a pull tab.
Zinc penny on top of the ground disc setting was 8, with my dirt on top my disc setting went to 7 1/4.
Pull tab on top of the ground disc setting was just under 6 lets say 5.9, and with the dirt on top it went to 5.6. Note: Not as big a difference on the settings on the pull tab as there was with the coins.

Thinking about doing the same thing with my other detectors.

Ron in WV

 

[shooter]

You'll find most machines will react that way, bury that nickel in the ground about 2"s without breaking up the soil, use a knife blade and slide the nickel in and tamp it down adj to reject then back. loose soil sometimes gives a little different reading.

 

[Wile.E]

My 65 acts on same settings as yours except on tabs and zincs,always run disc 1 on 2, disc 2 depending on what im doing, but usually on just a hair after 5,still picks up nickels. however have to crank up to right before 7 on2 to knock out tabs if they are deeper. depending on swing speed and depth of tabs or zincs I will still get an undecidable broken signal, maybe lack of experience,but what I do is pinpoint and tremor over target, will usually give it up. was going to first organized hunt today through monday but wife got hospitalized and coincidently 65 acting up. pinpoint-disc 2 trigger going biserk. Been sitting in corner for 2 months through all this heat. Any ideas?

 

[TheOtherLeggoHead]

Corrosion of the contacts. Flip it back and forth with the machine off. Should fix it.

 

[WV62]

Here is the numbers for my 1270, last of my classics.

Surface and air test, nickel=5.1, and under dirt = 5.0
zinc = 6.9 surface and air and 6.0 under dirt
pull tab = 5.2 surface and air and 5.1 under dirt.

Shooter is right I think it is time to make me another shallow test garden, just to get some real world numbers.

Ron in WV

 

[steve in so la]

Ron - I have used a 1266 for the last 18 years as my only detector . I almost never use the disc # 2, just #1 & always set the sens on 5 and the #1 knob on 4 usually. I have almost 900 nickels this year so far so must be doing something right. Steve in so az

 

[WV62]

Ron - I have used a 1266 for the last 18 years as my only detector . I almost never use the disc # 2, just #1 & always set the sens on 5 and the #1 knob on 4 usually. I have almost 900 nickels this year so far so must be doing something right. Steve in so az

Steve,
At times I have wondered why the 2 disc. Looking at my numbers I was thinking of running mine around 5 when I want to include nickels, may end up at your number 4.

Thanks for your imput,

Ron in WV

 

[shooter]

I'm with you on that one Leggo head the Knob pots are open in spots but that does clean them up.

 

[WV62]

Just thought I would pass this information on, everybody may have already figured this out but for me the light bulb just came on. When hunting with the 1266x and I wanted to find nickels I would pull a nickel out of my pocket throw it on the ground adjust disc 2 just under the nickel and take off hunting and not find a lot of nickels.

Today I took the 1266x, a nickel and a hand digger out in my yard and dug a small hole, and put the nickel next to the hole and adjusted disc 2 right to the edge of rejection and noted the disc setting was 6. So with the nickel in the same spot next to the hole I took the dirt out of the hole and piled it up on the nickel and run the detector over it and noticed that the detector was now rejecting the nickel. I again adjusted the disc right to the edge of rejection and noted the disc setting which was about 5 1/4. Is there any doubt why I was not getting a lot of nickels?

Now I did the same thing with a zinc penny and a pull tab.
Zinc penny on top of the ground disc setting was 8, with my dirt on top my disc setting went to 7 1/4.
Pull tab on top of the ground disc setting was just under 6 lets say 5.9, and with the dirt on top it went to 5.6. Note: Not as big a difference on the settings on the pull tab as there was with the coins.

Thinking about doing the same thing with my other detectors.

Ron in WV

Well I think I am back to where I started, after testing both the 1270 and the 1266x, I found that everything I did changed the level of disc on a nickel. I tested in the air, on the ground, under dirt, changed coils, sweep speed and the distance from the coils, all effected the level of disc.
So I am thinking I will just keep throwing a nickel down at the start of a hunt and adjust the disc to just accept the nickel and then back off one full number and see how that works.

Good luck Wile.E on that 1265x.

Ron in WV