I finally got my Tesoro Silver Sabre uMax from the UPS truck today. Boy does it ever burn me when people don't take care of their detector. The Sabre I got is 100% functional but it wasn't very nice cosmetically. Control box/face plate/ was dirty, I couldn't seperate the lower rod from the upper rod to adjust the coil distance it was set up bad. I believe that the person that had it got done using it and threw it up in their closet without cleaning it and it set there for along time. Anyways I took it all apart and cleaned everything up, it cleaned up very well actually looks almost like new. There is still some friction when trying to push the lower rod into the upper rod, I think that there is a small bend in one of the rods (it has happened to me before with a Tesoro, a brand new Silver uMax)that keeps it from moving freely. I think that I might call the factory tomorrow and see if they will send me out a new lower/upper shaft/rod. I only got about 10 minutes to try out my Sabre before it got dark at a tot lot. I didn't find much but was amazed at the sensitivity, I was finding very small items at respectable depths. It might be just because I haven't had a Tesoro in awhile but I find my Sabre lighter than the other Tesoro's I have had. Sure is a nice little machine. Thanks! Steve.
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Got my Tesoro Silver Sabre uMax Today
- Thread starter SkiWhiz
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Good luck with your SS uMax Steve.
Mine is a nice addition to my machines.
It's a pleasure to hunt with.
When I got mine, it was in worse shape than I thought.
The guy said he never used it. Just carried in his truck
as a back up.
The problem was, it had rolled around in his truck until
it looked well worn.
But that was a year ago, and it is still going great.
Nothing really wrong with it. It just didn't look unused
like he said.
But I got over all that cause I really like it.
Happy Hunting,
Mine is a nice addition to my machines.
It's a pleasure to hunt with.
When I got mine, it was in worse shape than I thought.
The guy said he never used it. Just carried in his truck
as a back up.
The problem was, it had rolled around in his truck until
it looked well worn.
But that was a year ago, and it is still going great.
Nothing really wrong with it. It just didn't look unused
like he said.
But I got over all that cause I really like it.
Happy Hunting,
Old California
New member
Hi Steve,
I just bought a Silver Sabre uMax from someone here in Ca., It arrived yesterday too! The person I bought it from took very good care of the detector and looks like it was hardly even used.
I'm not too familiar with the Silver Sabre series and noticed my unit the iron is discriminated out (preset), I guess that's a standard feature? but a neat feature so now I don't need to worry about adjusting the disc control to knock out iron.
Before taking her out last night did some air testing on gold jewelry and coins, It'll air test a penny at 8-9" inches and does a good job on smaller size targets one of them a small gold open ear ring. Plus, I was worried maybe the preset disc trimmer pot knocking out iron was set too high, Not the case Tesoro got it right!
Also, Last night in one area (interference) I had to increase the disc knob a little to knock out the chatter but somehow the unit still responded on smaller foil size targets with ease and could use a higher sensitivity with the slight disc increase.
In another area had no inference so ran the disc knob full counter clock-wise, It's a neat detector.
Good luck with yours!
Paul (Ca)
I just bought a Silver Sabre uMax from someone here in Ca., It arrived yesterday too! The person I bought it from took very good care of the detector and looks like it was hardly even used.
I'm not too familiar with the Silver Sabre series and noticed my unit the iron is discriminated out (preset), I guess that's a standard feature? but a neat feature so now I don't need to worry about adjusting the disc control to knock out iron.
Before taking her out last night did some air testing on gold jewelry and coins, It'll air test a penny at 8-9" inches and does a good job on smaller size targets one of them a small gold open ear ring. Plus, I was worried maybe the preset disc trimmer pot knocking out iron was set too high, Not the case Tesoro got it right!
Also, Last night in one area (interference) I had to increase the disc knob a little to knock out the chatter but somehow the unit still responded on smaller foil size targets with ease and could use a higher sensitivity with the slight disc increase.
In another area had no inference so ran the disc knob full counter clock-wise, It's a neat detector.
Good luck with yours!
Paul (Ca)
[size=large]Sorry to hear you're hadn't been cared for or cleaned up. I've been fortunate in by dealings via the Classified's Forums and have only had one less-than-expected unit come my way.
I think you're going to enjoy your new detector, and look forward to your reports.
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I think you're going to enjoy your new detector, and look forward to your reports.
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