if waterproofed, which tesoro land machine would be.....

[seeker41]

the ultimate beach/water hunter and why????????
chuck.

 

[Dirt Poor]

Depends on fresh or salt water wishes. For simplicity, I'd vote Silver uMax(but it ain't a salt machine).

 

[sqwaby]

For salt enviroment you might try a Vaquero. I use one for dry/wet conditions on Texas beaches(fairly low mineralization) with no problems(stock coil), even submerge the coil in shallow water(sens @4-6), you'll have to preset all controls. You might want a DD coil for dedicated salt beach use. Keep in mind, by the time you get a V and mod it with the water housing you might be able to get a good used water machine for almost the same money.

 

[Terry Soloman]

The main thing you need in a saltwater environment is Pulse Induction. The salt and other mineralization virtualy disappears. Waterproof or not, A VLF (very low frequency) machine simply won't do what a PI machine will do on the beach or in the water. Tesoro Sharks are the way to go! - Terry

http://www.TerrySoloman.com

 

[BarberBill]

Why not just get a water machine in the first place?
BB

 

[seeker41]

Why not just get a water machine in the first place?
BB

ok, heres the deal......i have three water machines, 1. an excal with a 10x12 sef coil 2. a cz20 with 8 inch coil. and a tigershark with 8 inch coil that i just bought!

the tigershark is able to see much smaller gold charms, ear rings and chains than my other two machines! i dont think i will like using it because it only has one tone. and i cant find a larger coil for it.

i would like to modify any tesoro land machine that has the same sensitivity to small gold as the tigershark and uses two or three tones. i would be hunting

freshwater with the machine. i have heard great things about the old royal sabre and the compadre but i know nothing about the other models. some have said,

its not so much the operating frequency but coil design and circuit design that give some of the units there great sensetivity to micro-gold??
thanks, chuck.

 

[Hombre]

The two tone Pantera (circa 1991) would be good one to modify, but they are hard to find and quite rare. It has the old ED120 discriminator circuit and is sensitive to small gold. It runs real quiet in the iron while ignoring small nails and small rusty iron bits and pieces. It has a ten turn manual ground balance tied with a true threshold based all-metal mode with a slow auto tune. It has an accept and reject notch switch, with adjustable notch control that gives you a tone break wherever you want it to on the conductivity scale. I don't use the notch reject at all, but just run my disc.set to minimum with the notch control to break the low tone to high tone 'warble' over a zinc penny....that way, you might get a clicky, sputtery low tone on small nails and bobypins, solid low tone in the conductivity scale foil thru pulltab up to zinc penny which 'warbles' and high tone on the higher conductivity old copper pennies, dimes, etc. Dig the solid low tones if looking for gold or.... if cherry picking for silver, just dig the high tones, it's up to you ,the operator on what you will find, Good luck.

 

[seeker41]

very good reply!!!!!!!!!! thats exactly the kind of info i need!
chuck.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

For fresh water any older Tesoro that hipmounts as they love gold jewelry....and with disc. at zero a fishook-bobbi pin-nail will cackle but a small gold chain will hit....

For saltwater look into Tesoro's present water units...as they have features for this enviroment....