Sven
Well-known member
........somewhat.
Dang city beach cleaning machine went through the beach this week. The city of North Bay is always looking for revenue, now they want everyone's spare change.
I think they have upgraded the beach machine into an electro beach magnet. Not only does the forks and tines pick up the big junk and a lot of smaller stuff, now it grabs
all the magnetic clad coins. The beach is virtually cleaned out, no nails, bottle caps, bobby pins or any other small steel iron scrap. Spent 5 hours gridding the beach, targets far and few between except for the oddball pull tab or small foil. Only a few coins found on the main beach, even the volley ball court cleaned out. Figured just maybe the machine rejected any gold and silver. Not a thing. Checked the detector, no problem hitting buried coins at 7" or small foil up to 5". Had my disc cranked down just above iron. So decided to lower disc below iron and go back over a large section I already hunted. No change, no add'l targets.
Not to be defeated, looked for areas the machine could not get to. Only in those spots did I find 95% of the coins
Love that Amigo, does have some distinct variances in target tone so it wasn't too hard to decipherer what square pull tabs, nails and bottle caps sound like compared to coins. I like being able to set disc so bottle caps just break up and everything good still chimes away. It has nice fast recovery and pinpoints so fast and tite....great little machine!
Dang city beach cleaning machine went through the beach this week. The city of North Bay is always looking for revenue, now they want everyone's spare change.
I think they have upgraded the beach machine into an electro beach magnet. Not only does the forks and tines pick up the big junk and a lot of smaller stuff, now it grabs
all the magnetic clad coins. The beach is virtually cleaned out, no nails, bottle caps, bobby pins or any other small steel iron scrap. Spent 5 hours gridding the beach, targets far and few between except for the oddball pull tab or small foil. Only a few coins found on the main beach, even the volley ball court cleaned out. Figured just maybe the machine rejected any gold and silver. Not a thing. Checked the detector, no problem hitting buried coins at 7" or small foil up to 5". Had my disc cranked down just above iron. So decided to lower disc below iron and go back over a large section I already hunted. No change, no add'l targets.
Not to be defeated, looked for areas the machine could not get to. Only in those spots did I find 95% of the coins
Love that Amigo, does have some distinct variances in target tone so it wasn't too hard to decipherer what square pull tabs, nails and bottle caps sound like compared to coins. I like being able to set disc so bottle caps just break up and everything good still chimes away. It has nice fast recovery and pinpoints so fast and tite....great little machine!