Harbor Freight PP

[mwaynebennett]

Hey, those of you who use the Harbor Freight Pin Pointers, how much did you pay for them? I was at a local HF store the other day and saw that the price was about $17. Hasn't that gone up since last year? Weren't they only $15 last summer?

Mark

 

[Jcullus]

I paid $16.99 for mine, but I got it via mail and the shipping added another $7. Ouch!

 

[crgator]

They goofed when I bought mine a few weeks ago, and I signed the slip w/o confirming the price. It wasn't until I got home before I looked at the receipt and found that what I thought was $18.64 was actually $8.64. If I had noticed in the store I would have said something, but I don't get down to where the store is but maybe every three or four months. I'll have to pay it forward (do a good deed for someone) to make it up.

I've used it only once (in my backyard) and it seems to work quite well. But, I've subsequently bought a Garrett Pro-Pointer, so my girlfriend now owns the HF.

 

[scotrod]

i bought my hf pp last may $16.00 at store

 

[drummerman]

I got mine for about the same price as above also. There are better ones out there and if cash isn't a problem, get a better one. But you really don't need to.
The Harbor Freight PP works just fine. I use mine when I dig the hole and scan in the hole to pinpoint my treasure. Works best in a plastic or non-metal container, one you would put the dirt in from the hole. I will sometimes get a hit in the hole but the PP doesn't detect it, (probably because I didn't take the time to pin point the hit with my MT properly), so I scoop the out the dirt into a platsic flower plant pot bottom and use the PP then. Saves time sometimes to just do that way. Don't take your wifes flower pot bottom like I did. She was a little to say the least.
But or the price on the Harbor Freight PP. Ya can't go wrong.

Happy hunting!!

 

[TABAGO]

Get on Harbor freight e mail list,, they send out discount coupons weekly 15 to 20 % discounts also in store discounts that's a good savings

 

[Old Katz]

Paid the same amount plus or minus some change.
They have a good rock tumbler as well. The belts tend to break
but lots of people useing the extra think rubber bands; they do the same job
and you can buy a whole pack of them.
Katz

 

[drummerman]

Ya. I bought a rock tumbler also. Works great? Things that I find that are not of much value, I will put in a couple drops of dish soap, a tablespoon of white sand, and let her rip.
Once I found a ring from the Army at a campgrounds, just searching around my 5th wheel with my MT. Looked like class ring from the 60's and 70's for guys except it said "Army" on it. Had a red jewel, (glass) and the ring was badly tarnished, dirty, scratched. Just for the heck of it, I put it in my tumbler for 2 hours just to see how much it cleaned up and how much damaged was done to it from the sand. To my surprise. It looked brand new! Looking at it under a magnifying glass, I could see the scratches from the sand, but it wasn't bad at all. Not that I would do it to old coins, or good jewelry, but it comes in handy for stuff you want to clean up that are not worth allot.
I even thought of wearing it since I was at Bragg in the mid 70's, but the sucker weighted a ton.
What I like about the tumbler is the cup is rubber, so it doesn't scratch your finds worse. For all i know. They may have always been rubber. I never had one when I was a kid.

 

[jazzman58]

Seems to me I gave $15 for the one I bought last spring at the local store. I guess they are feeling the economic crunch like everyone else.