Although I have not sent my F-75 for the upgrade, it continues to work perfectly after about 35 to 40 hours on it. Both rain covers are on permanent, at least until I get the upgrade. Noticed that the batteries that came with the detector started giving a less than full charge indication on the display. Put new batteries in and I believe it sort of kicked into overdrive. Most everything sounded clearer and crisper and I'm thinking the display even looked a little sharper.
Recovered an old button today from an area that had once been the fairgrounds for the area in the 1880's, 1890's. Couldn't understand why I was recovering so much non-ferrous trash, i.e. large washers, large nuts, tubing, etc. I've never seen a picture of the old fairgrounds layout but my reading tells me that there were numerous exhibition buildings. Could be the remains of those old buildings. Some of the 80 acres of the fairgrounds were sold to developers and the rest is now a school and ball diamond. I truly believe there's some good old stuff to be had there.
Other than the non-ferrous trash and a couple bucks in clad (1 wheat), I found an old button. I'm not set up to post pictures, so I'll just describe it the best I can. Don't think it's iron as my magnet won't take to it. Hard to tell what's on the button as it looks like it may have been stepped on. As best I can tell there's some crossed stuff on the button. Looks like either crossed torches or crossed old brooms. One of the other things that forms the cross looks like a railroad spike. The items making up the cross (X) appear to be no worse for wear and a scratched area looks like the crossed pieces are copper or bronze. The rest of the button has small pit marks (holes) all over. It's about the size of a penny.
This is the area that the soldiers used to pass through from Ft. D. A. Russell to the town of Cheyenne and back. Also, some of the old fire brigades used to have competitions to see who was best.
Ron
Recovered an old button today from an area that had once been the fairgrounds for the area in the 1880's, 1890's. Couldn't understand why I was recovering so much non-ferrous trash, i.e. large washers, large nuts, tubing, etc. I've never seen a picture of the old fairgrounds layout but my reading tells me that there were numerous exhibition buildings. Could be the remains of those old buildings. Some of the 80 acres of the fairgrounds were sold to developers and the rest is now a school and ball diamond. I truly believe there's some good old stuff to be had there.
Other than the non-ferrous trash and a couple bucks in clad (1 wheat), I found an old button. I'm not set up to post pictures, so I'll just describe it the best I can. Don't think it's iron as my magnet won't take to it. Hard to tell what's on the button as it looks like it may have been stepped on. As best I can tell there's some crossed stuff on the button. Looks like either crossed torches or crossed old brooms. One of the other things that forms the cross looks like a railroad spike. The items making up the cross (X) appear to be no worse for wear and a scratched area looks like the crossed pieces are copper or bronze. The rest of the button has small pit marks (holes) all over. It's about the size of a penny.
This is the area that the soldiers used to pass through from Ft. D. A. Russell to the town of Cheyenne and back. Also, some of the old fire brigades used to have competitions to see who was best.
Ron