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A trip down memory lane...

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Back when detecting was in its infancy everybody and their dog were making detectors. There were at least 80 manufacturers back then making all kinds of cheap gizmos. Anybody with a spare spot in their garage and a nodding aquaintance with electronics was pumping out detectors. These are just a few of them.
Bill
 
was better looking (less cobbed-together) than my first!
Of course that $29.95 was no small change back then either.
DAS
 
I started detecting about 1978,those machines pre-date my experience!!!
The oldest machine I had was a Bounty Hunter BFO.
By the time you dealt with the mineralisation we have in Australia;
you covered ground at about a snails pace...
I love to see these detector ancestors!!!
thanks for that.
SNOWY
 
Those pictures sure bring back memories! Becoming a teenager in the early sixties was a different time. My dad always had issues of Argosy, True, Saga, and the west series... Frontier Times, True West, and all the others. I recall seeing some of those detectors in the magazines and wishing I could some how get one. Thanks for bring back memories of my Dad... He would have been 84 this week.... Think I'll give my mom a call....
 
I've got more if I can dig them up - many in your time frame.
Bill
 
<STRONG> My first one was a D-TEX
Times have certainly changed</STRONG>
 
The fourth one over on top was my first detector. A Garrett BFO in 1973 or 74, Or one like it. It cost over 200 dollars. The little coil in front of the shaft was a 5inch and the big coil was a 12in I thank. You tuned it to sound like a boat motor. Long time ago. Jerry
 
Yea buddy, I think we all have one or two of those in our garage or closet. I got an old Bounty Hunter BFO I was just looking at it the other day.
 
Yeah all the BFO's had that distinctive motorboat sound. That's why they were called Beat Frequency Oscillators.
Bill
 
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