Wooden Nickel
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No foolin'. No banjo this time. No weed-eater this time.
I got a brand new actual, working, beeping, Tejon yesterday. UPS brought it to the front door. That was right nice of them to do that.
I didn't have much time to play with it except in the house after dark. OK, I did slip outside in my slippers to try to ground balance it, but it was too cold to do anything else, and it didn't want to ground balance. Besides, it acted like a mashed cat inside. It beeped, carried on and screamed. I couldn't do anything with it. I thought.... oh no, what have I done? I've bought something that is going to be so incredibly hard to use that I'll never like the way it works. I just know I'll hate it and sell it and take a hit on it and revert back to the old $30 whites 5000d I started on. Oh....woe was me !!!
So this afternoon I couldn't stand it any more and left work a few hours early to see if I could do anything with this beast of a machine.
I got out the wood sawhorses and set them in the yard. I had already found out that I didn't dare wear steel toe boots near it. Nor a Carhartt jacket with metal buttons on the sleeves. No sir, there can't be any metal near this thing.
It did seem to be much more settled down outside than in the house the night before. I'd say too much EMI, fluorescent bulbs, etc.
Went through the manual and did all the air test thingys. That went well and as expected.
Next thing was the dreaded GROUND BALANCE. I had heard from some forum posts how hard the Tejon was to ground balance. It took me just a few seconds of playing with it to have it perfectly ground balanced (OK, maybe just a teeny bit negative.). Piece of cake. I found that the key to ground balancing is to not go too fast. It was easy once I discovered that I had to take my time.
Time for the hunt. I didn't have too much time because my grandson had a choir performance at 5:30, and I had to have a nap. So off through the yard I went.
Hadn't gone twenty feet and got a hit. It was kind of mushy, but a hit. It floated around a bit, hear and there. I'm thinking iron! I decided to dig and the picture below shows my first find with my new Tejon. Our house is next to a very old road, well over a hundred years old, so I can only say that this find is very old. I hope it's an appropriate omen
I have tons and tons of things to learn, but I can already tell that this is one HOT machine. I had several scratches in the phones and dug a few. I was digging teeny, tiny pieces of aluminum about four inches down. Where that stuff came from I'll never know. Old, old 22 caliber cases were four or so inches down.
This machine is going to be a bit noisy, but with practice my ear will be able to cipher things out. The dual discriminators are nice. Being able to vary the audio is nice. Everything so far is nice.
I can already say that I love my Tejon.
'Nuf said. Is it dark outside yet?
mike.....
I got a brand new actual, working, beeping, Tejon yesterday. UPS brought it to the front door. That was right nice of them to do that.
I didn't have much time to play with it except in the house after dark. OK, I did slip outside in my slippers to try to ground balance it, but it was too cold to do anything else, and it didn't want to ground balance. Besides, it acted like a mashed cat inside. It beeped, carried on and screamed. I couldn't do anything with it. I thought.... oh no, what have I done? I've bought something that is going to be so incredibly hard to use that I'll never like the way it works. I just know I'll hate it and sell it and take a hit on it and revert back to the old $30 whites 5000d I started on. Oh....woe was me !!!
So this afternoon I couldn't stand it any more and left work a few hours early to see if I could do anything with this beast of a machine.
I got out the wood sawhorses and set them in the yard. I had already found out that I didn't dare wear steel toe boots near it. Nor a Carhartt jacket with metal buttons on the sleeves. No sir, there can't be any metal near this thing.
It did seem to be much more settled down outside than in the house the night before. I'd say too much EMI, fluorescent bulbs, etc.
Went through the manual and did all the air test thingys. That went well and as expected.
Next thing was the dreaded GROUND BALANCE. I had heard from some forum posts how hard the Tejon was to ground balance. It took me just a few seconds of playing with it to have it perfectly ground balanced (OK, maybe just a teeny bit negative.). Piece of cake. I found that the key to ground balancing is to not go too fast. It was easy once I discovered that I had to take my time.
Time for the hunt. I didn't have too much time because my grandson had a choir performance at 5:30, and I had to have a nap. So off through the yard I went.
Hadn't gone twenty feet and got a hit. It was kind of mushy, but a hit. It floated around a bit, hear and there. I'm thinking iron! I decided to dig and the picture below shows my first find with my new Tejon. Our house is next to a very old road, well over a hundred years old, so I can only say that this find is very old. I hope it's an appropriate omen
I have tons and tons of things to learn, but I can already tell that this is one HOT machine. I had several scratches in the phones and dug a few. I was digging teeny, tiny pieces of aluminum about four inches down. Where that stuff came from I'll never know. Old, old 22 caliber cases were four or so inches down.
This machine is going to be a bit noisy, but with practice my ear will be able to cipher things out. The dual discriminators are nice. Being able to vary the audio is nice. Everything so far is nice.
I can already say that I love my Tejon.
'Nuf said. Is it dark outside yet?
mike.....
