Fireplace ash and the CTX

[Dan(NM)]

I cleaned the fireplace this morning and had a large bucket of pine ash I used to run a quick test using a rusty 3" nail and a silver dime. I spread 4-5" of ash in 2 separate piles the size of the coil, then I laid the nail on one pile and the silver dime on the other. I had an open screen and scanned the dime first, clear high tone, 13/44 12/44 readings from both directions, same thing on the nail, clear iron tones and 35/45 35/50 readings. Buried the nail and the dime under 4" of ash, no effect on the tones or the readings from all directions. I suppose if the ground and rocks were heated along with a mixture of various materials that it would no doubt effect the machines ability to ID properly. Pure ash had no effect on the CTX, file this under the for what it's worth department.

 

[sprchng]

I occasionally hunt an area which had trash deposited that was burned , turned over and burned again. The iron's decomposition is hastened by the burning and rapid rusting until it has dissolved almost entirely into the soil along with various other compounds that burned at the same time. While charred and often unrecognizable , the noble metals like copper/bronze , silver , tin and aluminum still remain but the soil is now extremely difficult to detect in , yielding sensitivity readings below 3 , in auto 3. A dime often disappears at 2" in "ground" or "ferrous",,,,,,,,,,,"seawater" setting brings it back!

 

[sube]

Yep what sprching said if you put your cans in a fire that's steel cans and hit them with water they rust at a amazing fast pace and are rust flakes in a month old camping trick .

 

[Rototiller]

I Wonder if you would have achieved the same test results if the ash was wet?