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I'm quite pleased I have my Tesoro's, and Guvner's name
- Thread starter Monte
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OregonGregg
Well-known member
Thanks for the offer, but gonna keep "my baby" I'll just let her stay in her box all nice and new condition. I might put it together and put on the fire place mantle to look at. But I do want to get out and use a Tesoro so I'm on the lookout for a nice condition Silver Sabre microMax.
That is a sweet looking Bandido II...I'd be assembling it for the maiden voyage this weekend if it were mine. Ha! Monte along with others here on this forum have swung every detector known to man and if they still use them (or swear by them) with all their experience that should tell you something
Different tools for different jobs...HH and get that Bandido in the field where it belongs!
Different tools for different jobs...HH and get that Bandido in the field where it belongs!I set the Compadre at the "r" in iron and get most rings. At that setting, any iron or target discrepancy is obvious by skips, hesitations,, blips, etc. This is great for places searched on a regular basis. Targets give a strong, repeatable signal. In sites never searched, I listen for a "smooth, round" sound on the deeper targets.
Stoof-tabsallday
Well-known member
Very nice!!OregonGregg said:
You have the older pole set nice and shiny. You have the ones that have cam locks. My Bandido had the shiny poles but no cam locks. Wobbly as all heck. Pit that bad boy on a new pole set and now in business.
You really should get out there with it. May surprise you. Actually will surprise you. Different style, have to go by the single beep, but that little beep has many many nuances.
Until I learn my racer2 and relic better, tesoro still holds as my favorite "style" of detecting.
The numbers on the disc knob threw me for a bit, but just run some coins over the coil and find out when they go quiet. And since you know the VDI scale you should be able to go from there.
The disc circuits on those tesoro are unmatched.
Saw on a YouTube video where a guy was testing his outlaw for separation, recovery, and disc and he was able to disc out a loose ball of foil but put it on top of a dime and still beep on the dime.
No mixing VDI numbers with iron and nonferrous in the hole. Just discs stuff out and rings clear as a bell on what's not disc out.
And you have one of the best people to show you tesoro. You have Monte to hunt with.
You two should go out both with tesoro.
Stoof-tabsallday
Well-known member
Yeah Gregg you need to get out there with a tesoro and give it a go.
Mine is almost as mint as yours, or was. Got some dirt on my knobs lol, but I had to use it. Makes me sad to think if that detector sitting in a box.
You won't hurt it if you use it...
And good luck in the silver sabre umax. Been looking for a while for one. Just grab any one with GB. Or better yet, try Monte so yours doesn't get dirty.
Haha
Mine is almost as mint as yours, or was. Got some dirt on my knobs lol, but I had to use it. Makes me sad to think if that detector sitting in a box.
You won't hurt it if you use it...
And good luck in the silver sabre umax. Been looking for a while for one. Just grab any one with GB. Or better yet, try Monte so yours doesn't get dirty.
Haha
Stoof-tabsallday said:
Stoof, are you tightening the upper pole nut down into the threads, or backing it out so that it pushes against the flat of the S-pole?
I thought those pre-cam lock poles were wobbly too, until I realized I needed to back that nut out, rather than tighten it...
On the lower pole, I added a small piece of electrical tape in two places, so it fit the middle pole snugly.
Worked fine for me on my µMAX Cutlass poles like those. Feels as tight as the cam-lock poles now. ^_^
pinenut, it might be that Stefan has either the 'original' Bandido [size=small](released in 3/'90)[/size] or a Bandido II [size=small](released in 1/'93)[/size], and those models used a 2-piece rod system. The upper 'S' rod was a longer length, and there was no rod lock. The lower rod just fit inside and, at times, they could get a little wobbly or loose, depending upon the rod diameters and how secure the snap-lock system was.pinenut said:
I have a choice condition Bandido II I am going to sell and it feels quite secure. Not a bunch of slop or wiggle, just a nice lower-rod/upper-rod fit.
Rod locks were on the 3-rod designs of the [size=small]micro[/size]MAX Bandido's with a metal nut & spacer on the µMAX Bandido [size=small](released in 3/'96)[/size], and then they went to the larger dark brown plastic nuts on some of those and the Bandido II µMAX [size=small](released in 10/'97)[/size].
Monte
I can pleasantly report that the most rings and quality jewelry I have found [size=small](the gold and silver kind, be them rings, bracelets, chains, pendants, etc.)[/size] was when I was using one of the cou8ntless Tesoro models I have favored. Matter-of-fact, by 'most' I am not referring to the amount of quality jewelry found with a Tesoro compared with another brand, I am referring to more good jewelry found using a Tesoro than ALL OTHER BRANDS of detectors I have owned and used.
On all the Tesoro models with an ED-120 or earlier, more limited adjustment range, I ALWAYS keep the Discriminate control at the absolute minimum setting, ... all-the-time.
Larger-sized women's gold rings, and most men's gold rings, fall in a conductivity range somewhere from slightly below US 5¢ [size=small](nickel)[/size] coil conductivity to a higher rejection point that can be a lot like the old ring-pull type tabs or even up to the screw cap range. The bulk of the gold rings I have found through these past decades have been smaller-size, and thinner, women's rings as well as children's rings, or gold pendants and chains of various sizes, and their conductivity is well below the 5¢ coin, reading down into the larger foil to smaller foil or even into the upper-end of the iron range.
Monte
On all the Tesoro models with an ED-120 or earlier, more limited adjustment range, I ALWAYS keep the Discriminate control at the absolute minimum setting, ... all-the-time.
Larger-sized women's gold rings, and most men's gold rings, fall in a conductivity range somewhere from slightly below US 5¢ [size=small](nickel)[/size] coil conductivity to a higher rejection point that can be a lot like the old ring-pull type tabs or even up to the screw cap range. The bulk of the gold rings I have found through these past decades have been smaller-size, and thinner, women's rings as well as children's rings, or gold pendants and chains of various sizes, and their conductivity is well below the 5¢ coin, reading down into the larger foil to smaller foil or even into the upper-end of the iron range.
Monte
OregonGregg said:Hey Stefan, you can try the technique that Monte and I use. We will hunt together and sometimes he uses his Tesoro machine. Being diff. freq. we can hunt close together. So when his little machine beeps, I just step over with the Makro Racer 2 and swing my coil over the target....and I'm like , naw not a good target. A bit later another beep will come out of his little machine so I'll just step over and swing my coil over it...Hey, ya got a coin this time, better dig it. lol
It's more like I call him over to make sure he slows down and doesn't go wandering, rapidly, all over the place. If he looks bored, it just gives him something to do. He needs to get out and actually use his Tesoro and learn just how much fun they can be, and how good the results might turn out.
Monte
Boys----Boys-----Now don't be fussin over ur tectors!! 
-----Ain't this a grand hobby--uhh sport--uhh FUN---yeah, that's it FUN!!!
-----Ain't this a grand hobby--uhh sport--uhh FUN---yeah, that's it FUN!!!
Monte said:OregonGregg said:Hey Stefan, you can try the technique that Monte and I use. We will hunt together and sometimes he uses his Tesoro machine. Being diff. freq. we can hunt close together. So when his little machine beeps, I just step over with the Makro Racer 2 and swing my coil over the target....and I'm like , naw not a good target. A bit later another beep will come out of his little machine so I'll just step over and swing my coil over it...Hey, ya got a coin this time, better dig it. lol
It's more like I call him over to make sure he slows down and doesn't go wandering, rapidly, all over the place. If he looks bored, it just gives him something to do. He needs to get out and actually use his Tesoro and learn just how much fun they can be, and how good the results might turn out.
Monte
OregonGregg
Well-known member
Monte said:
LOL how funny, when we are out detecting together it reminds me of that ol' Rocky movie from the mid 70's. Imagine that Monte is Burgess Meredith, the trainer, and i am the poor Rocky character.
We will be out detecting and 10 minutes later Monte will look up and I'm 450' off in another direction and he will holler over at me,
" What the
ya doing over there ???? We are detecting, not running a marathon !!!!!! "Of all the things to learn about detecting,patience, is the hardest. But he is right. Pick an area, go slow and methodical and it is amazing the stuff that can be found, especially in those old iron filled ghost towns.
You sneaky sneak! I always wanted to have a partner so that whenever I named the target in my mind by the Tesoro audio, I could verify and also learn the audio subtleties at the same time.Monte said:OregonGregg said:Hey Stefan, you can try the technique that Monte and I use. We will hunt together and sometimes he uses his Tesoro machine. Being diff. freq. we can hunt close together. So when his little machine beeps, I just step over with the Makro Racer 2 and swing my coil over the target....and I'm like , naw not a good target. A bit later another beep will come out of his little machine so I'll just step over and swing my coil over it...Hey, ya got a coin this time, better dig it. lol
It's more like I call him over to make sure he slows down and doesn't go wandering, rapidly, all over the place. If he looks bored, it just gives him something to do. He needs to get out and actually use his Tesoro and learn just how much fun they can be, and how good the results might turn out.
Monte
2 Much Trash
Well-known member
I've been looking at buying a Tesoro for about a year now. This current situation here on the forum and all the response it's created has helped me make a decision. I'm gonna get one.
Tejon I'm thinking.
Tejon I'm thinking.
OregonGregg
Well-known member
Quote Stefan:
"And good luck in the silver sabre umax. Been looking for a while for one. Just grab any one with GB. Or better yet, try Monte so yours doesn't get dirty.
Haha"
LOL ya I have been trying to pry that 9.9 out of 10 Silver Sabra microMax away from Monte. Its come to the point when i stop by to visit he hides it from me............Hell, he won't even let me play with it in the living room with the Nail board test.
"And good luck in the silver sabre umax. Been looking for a while for one. Just grab any one with GB. Or better yet, try Monte so yours doesn't get dirty.
Haha"
LOL ya I have been trying to pry that 9.9 out of 10 Silver Sabra microMax away from Monte. Its come to the point when i stop by to visit he hides it from me............Hell, he won't even let me play with it in the living room with the Nail board test.