Got a Compadre.. need disc advice.

[TN Mike]

Finally got one and the mods have commenced. Parts have been ordered.

The goal with this rig is to run my cleansweep with dual discs. I love digging coins but I need a ring/chain machine and that's what I'm out to accomplish with it.

That being said whats the best disc setting for this little rig?

I've read many times that its good to run in AM and that it will hit on small chains..but man, there's a lot of crap in the ground where I hunt and if I dug everything, I'd need a new set of knees..So I'm hoping to hear that I can at least run it above iron.

Also I'm wondering if someone might know if the Compadre hits 18k-24k gold above 5 cent? I've found the highest I can run the disc is at the F in foil to hit on my small (3g) 10k ring.. anything higher than that and I start to loose depth pretty quickly along with diminished signal. My 14k rings hit up to about right between foil and 5 cent and at that point start to break up. Im thinking 24k might hit just past 5 cent which would be awesome... thats where I'll set me upper level disc to and my lower will set to the F in foil. Hopefully avoiding pulltabs as much as possible.

Im wanting to find everything from pulltabs (pulltabs being slightly broken up just past 5 cent) down to the small 10k range (the F in foil), focusing on that disc range.

Thanks in advance for any help, especially with the 18-24k findings

 

[slingshot]

The sweet spot on my Compadre, when I want to defeat larger foil, is right before "foil". I still pick up foil, but the broken signal lets me know it's probably trash. It's also a sure way to miss teeny gold and the reason I just hunt at the "I" or "r" in "Iron", which takes care of nails, paper clips, etc.
I once had a setup on my Silver umax where I left the disc#1 on min. and disc #2 on a setting where the older style tabs just broke up. I then let the broken signals on #1 pass as possible foil trash, and the broken signal on#2 pass as tabs. All "regular" sounding hits were dug.
Just this week I found a 14k beauty which hit solid foil and a low ID of 12 on another detector. It would have blasted my Compadre at low foil settings, but right above nickel? I doubt it, although the machine continues to amaze me.

 

[REVIER]

Finally got one and the mods have commenced. Parts have been ordered.

The goal with this rig is to run my cleansweep with dual discs. I love digging coins but I need a ring/chain machine and that's what I'm out to accomplish with it.

That being said whats the best disc setting for this little rig?

I've read many times that its good to run in AM and that it will hit on small chains..but man, there's a lot of crap in the ground where I hunt and if I dug everything, I'd need a new set of knees..So I'm hoping to hear that I can at least run it above iron.

Also I'm wondering if someone might know if the Compadre hits 18k-24k gold above 5 cent? I've found the highest I can run the disc is at the F in foil to hit on my small (3g) 10k ring.. anything higher than that and I start to loose depth pretty quickly along with diminished signal. My 14k rings hit up to about right between foil and 5 cent and at that point start to break up. Im thinking 24k might hit just past 5 cent which would be awesome... thats where I'll set me upper level disc to and my lower will set to the F in foil. Hopefully avoiding pulltabs as much as possible.

Im wanting to find everything from pulltabs (pulltabs being slightly broken up just past 5 cent) down to the small 10k range (the F in foil), focusing on that disc range.

Thanks in advance for any help, especially with the 18-24k findings

Gold can come in almost anywhere because of the size, shape or configuration or purity.
Even though I did find a super thin 14k gold chain thanks to the house key attached to it, by itself my Compadre needs to be just about down to all metal to pick it up and that would only be at about 3 inches
Curiously enough, the benchmark I calibrate to is not gold but silver...specifically a small, thin silver bracelet shown below.
At the R it was there, at the O it was gone.
Chains are weird and they are rare compared to rings but they are out there.
As far as rings I have found gold ones from just a hair to the left of the F in foil on up so that is as high as I ever set the disc to hunt and in times of heavy trash only.
Most other times the disc will be somewhere in the word iron if not all the way down to all metal to get the deepest and clearest signal...and most jewelry.
The highest I have ever found gold is the 3:00 position which is where large 10k class rings come in, but I know a bit about higher karat gold rings.
The highest karat I have ever dug was not huge, 6.1 grams, and 22k which was a 41 on my Fisher and that would translate to between tabs and zinc 3:00 on the Compadre.
On a club meeting a friend found a very tiny gold ring that looked old.
So small it barely, I mean barely fit on the tip of my pinky finger.
He told everyone it hit every way but Sunday on his MXT as a dime, I checked it out on my F2 and also a solid dime.
Everyone else was confused that something so small came in so high but I wasn't...it was marked .999, pretty much 24k.
I have not dug anything 18k yet but I assume, depending on the size of course, a bit higher than 14k would be of a comparable size and weight and if big enough could go into and even higher than tabs.

Depth and how it is laying in the ground might affect all readings too, broken or open rings will be lower than normal and will act weird like chains.
Trash in the vicinity might also up average or down average gold signals, I have no idea how that big coil will deal with that but my 7" coil has great separation and it does not seem to be a big issue.
You never know what will happen out there so just gotta be on your toes, dig all the solid sounding signals at the very least, and use all the good luck you can gather.

 

[Fletch88]

I run my Cleansweep on a Silver and usually just set disc just below nickel where a lot of foil breaks up and has a "scratchy" sound. Most of the time I just dig without thumbing the disc up unless I'm tired and want to start cherry picking. The cleansweep coil is so fun to use on large sports fields and school yards where most targets are less than 4" deep. It is a coin magnet!