xwyokid said:
Does this machine tend to, "tip over" when set down on the ground? I take care with all my machines and always make sure to place carefully on the ground. But, some machines still tend to be "tippy".
I have been using the CoRe since January of '15 and Relic since January of this year, some of the time for Coin Hunting relatively level parks and yards and schools. In all this time I have had my CoRe tip over once, but it was actually pushed over when Miss Rikki, my wonderful dog, was busy chasing a squirrel and ran into the coil when I had the detector sitting on the lawn.
Most of my detecting time is spent in homesteads, mining, faming and ranching area ghost towns, stage stops and other out-of-use and out-of-the-way locations that have mainly uneven ground. My CoRe fell over once because I didn't set it down properly, and my Relic fell once, but that wasn't its fault, either. It was in my hand when I took a fall [size=small]
(that happens too often these more recent years)[/size]. Both of us survived and I took the most beating.
Yes, they look 'top heavy' compared with models like a Racer 2 or White's MXT Pro or XLT and so forth, but I have had other detectors fall over more than the CoRe or the Relic, such as the Teknetics T2's I once had, the Omegas I used to use, and the G2, a Fisher F75, and even my Tesoro Bandido II µMAX and Silver Sabre µMAX have toppled more than the CoRe and Relic.
To help protect them from a possible topple or just being bumped and scratched in transit and such, I keep environments covers on all my Racer series, CoRe and Relic series models. With the CoRe and Relic, the plastic housing cover does block the 'feet' of the bottom of the housing and might make them a little more difficult to stabilize when you set them down, but I don't have a problem. I just pause an extra moment or two, regardless of the detector in-hand, to make sure I set the detector down so as to be stable.
No problems more than normal for me.
Monte
