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- Thread starter Elton
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E-Trac-Ohio
Well-known member
This forum is a great place to learn about our machines and our hobby - Q & A , techniques, programs, settings, coils, etc.
Keep the posts coming !
Keep the posts coming !
I remember the old days before cell phones and internet. You would buy a machine out of the back of a magazine. Send a check through the mail. Wait 30 days in hope that nothing went wrong. Then getting a machine you had no idea on how to run. Spend 2 years trying to figure out how to find a surface coin. I can't make this up folks.....
Kenny:
My first detector was a used machine. Bought from an old guy down the street. It went 3" deep on a good day...Handle on top of the box and a real wrist breaker.
I bought my first new machine exactly as you say.From a book ad....... Took awhile but figured it out. My first good find was a 1927 dime.. then a 23 dime......... then a nice Barber dime
thinking back, it was a fun experience. Wow.Have the detectors improved over the years !. No reset for drifting, depth meters, ID meters, discrimination... and other bells & whistles.
Back in the day I never saw anyone other than the old guy down the street detecting either........the area was almost all mine LOL .........Mostly if not pennies, or nickles it was Silver.. clad was a rare find hahahahahaa
. I was newly married and my wife thought I was nuts.. She still thinks we all are too. LOL.................... The good old days !!!
My first detector was a used machine. Bought from an old guy down the street. It went 3" deep on a good day...Handle on top of the box and a real wrist breaker.
I bought my first new machine exactly as you say.From a book ad....... Took awhile but figured it out. My first good find was a 1927 dime.. then a 23 dime......... then a nice Barber dime
thinking back, it was a fun experience. Wow.Have the detectors improved over the years !. No reset for drifting, depth meters, ID meters, discrimination... and other bells & whistles.
Back in the day I never saw anyone other than the old guy down the street detecting either........the area was almost all mine LOL .........Mostly if not pennies, or nickles it was Silver.. clad was a rare find hahahahahaa
. I was newly married and my wife thought I was nuts.. She still thinks we all are too. LOL.................... The good old days !!!
robertj298
Member
D&P-OR said:Yeah---I remember a lot of those detectors in the old days gave me a lot of headaches (literally).----I don't get many headaches anymore!----These new guys don't know how good they got it.
Of course in the old days there were a lot more old coins in reach of your detectors capabilities. I believe many coins have sunk deeper over the past 30 years than the new detectors capabilities have improved.
Larry--IndianaHVAC
New member
Elton, Its guys like you that keep this forum rolling!