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HELP!! F5 Will Not Respond To A Silver Dollar:ranting:

Ron, when you get the chance, make sure you check it with the silver half and silver dollar separately, and then stack the half on top of the dollar while on the ground and check them again, together.

Also, check the F5 with all of the search coils he has for it just to be sure all adjustments have been addressed for best performance.

Monte
 
Monte,
Well do on the coins, but he only has the one 11"DD coil. That new sealer he found on his coil he thought it was were FT opened up the coil and done something inside the coil.
Ron in WV

Monte said:
Ron, when you get the chance, make sure you check it with the silver half and silver dollar separately, and then stack the half on top of the dollar while on the ground and check them again, together.

Also, check the F5 with all of the search coils he has for it just to be sure all adjustments have been addressed for best performance.

Monte
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It is possible that the search coil was a little "out-of-spec" so they opened and tuned it then resealed it.

Only an 11" DD coil? He sure wouldn't enjoy hunting with his F5 and that coil in most of the old sites I like to work into. Too much trash and too much brush, and occasionally a bit of building rubble to give you fits. Smaller-size search coils rule in these environments.

Monte
 
I know what you are saying about the little coil, I have been trying to talk him into letting me look for a 5" coil. He is the kind of guy that gets set in his ways and he has been doing pretty well with the 11".

Ron in WV
 
WV62 said:
Monte,
Well do on the coins, but he only has the one 11"DD coil. That new sealer he found on his coil he thought it was were FT opened up the coil and done something inside the coil.
Ron in WV

Monte said:
Ron, when you get the chance, make sure you check it with the silver half and silver dollar separately, and then stack the half on top of the dollar while on the ground and check them again, together.

Also, check the F5 with all of the search coils he has for it just to be sure all adjustments have been addressed for best performance.

Monte
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My theory on the sealer they put on that coil is possibly because it was an early design that didn't have the exterior sealant on them and I believe later it was found that on some of those they leaked water into the coil when they were submersed. The later designs came out the door with the seem better sealed. So, it could have been either took apart and "tuned" or the seal upgraded.

Mark
 
Today my brother Greg and myself got together for the silver $ test on his F5 just back from FT. First I looked the machine over and it looked good they had went over the machine from head to toe. We got out my silver $ and the F5 sounded off and gave a ID of 99, I had a silver half and we stacked the coins and still got a good hit. Not much more to say about that and we were off doing some hunting.

We started off working an area around a small pond, and neither of us found anything old. We took a break about 2 and thought we would go back to one of our worked out silver holes and see if we may have a little luck with that. We picked a nice brushy area that we though may have been missed and brother Greg started on the left side and I took the right side. So in about 30 to 45 minutes here comes my brother over and he had a good target and wanted me to check it with my F75. I did and I got a good ID number of 86 but no confidence reading. So I told him I would dig it but would expect junk. He hit it again with his F5 and was getting a high than a quarter ID and high confidence. He takes a plug and out rolls a nice 1936 Liberty half dollar, his first ever.

Now he really likes his F5, and he told me that guys at FT really went the extra mile with his machine.

Ron in WV
 
Glad to hear your brother's machine is working ok--BTW I always thought WV was a poor state--who is losing all that silver??
 
Next time I send anything to Felix I am telling him I got a brother named Ron!
 
togg77 said:
Glad to hear your brother's machine is working ok--BTW I always thought WV was a poor state--who is losing all that silver??
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Pre 1965, it wasn't poor LoL!

Mark
 
When I had to send my dead Omega in for repairs I was impressed with how First Texas took care of me, from start until I received the unit back was just 'Outstanding' and now to see two other people in the same thread get "Over The Top" "Above and Beyond" service is really inspiring to me as a customer :clapping:

Doing things like this cost companies lots of money, but the draw it has to repeat customers and the attraction for new customers will more than cover the cost!!

I tip my hat again to First Texas and its service department :detecting:
Here is a little personal thank you to "Felix" at First Texas 'Good Job My Friend'

Mark
 
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