Darkflight
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I bought a 9 function Chinese detector from Harbor freight. After the coupon it was $39.95 . It's for my kids to use. At least that was my excuse. When I tested the thing the unit surprised me with very fast response & good discrimination. It lacks depth but it smokes Montes nail board test in every direction. Even better than my troy X2!...
I had some spare pieces lying around & after deciding the meter was of zero use & the ergonomics sucked so very badly-I was going to chop it up.
This is what I came up with. Very well balanced and easy to swing. The red button is the no motion all metal. It has a disc mode & a tone mode where you can hear the disc'd out metal grunt. But the disc mode shines in heavy iron/nails...And I had just the place to test it out.
A local school soccer/football field. The main tower for the announcers was rebuilt. They spread the concrete/re bar from the old building all around it. This is a very populated field that sees a lot of detectors. But this area makes most detectors unusable.Even my Troy has a hard time seeing it's way through. But this school has given me 4 gold rings-It has potential even in the tough areas due to the large amounts of sports played on these fields.
Knowing how well this unit did in the nail board test I decided to use it in that area...Almost gave up on it after about 2 hours of tabs & building scrap & can slaw. Then I found this beauty!. Marked 14K Italy & I gotta say I am happy I stuck with it....
Also found a small silver ring but that was mid-field with my Troy X2...Gotta use the right tool for the job as they say. And this cheap little sucker shines where more power full units go bonkers.
I had some spare pieces lying around & after deciding the meter was of zero use & the ergonomics sucked so very badly-I was going to chop it up.
This is what I came up with. Very well balanced and easy to swing. The red button is the no motion all metal. It has a disc mode & a tone mode where you can hear the disc'd out metal grunt. But the disc mode shines in heavy iron/nails...And I had just the place to test it out.
A local school soccer/football field. The main tower for the announcers was rebuilt. They spread the concrete/re bar from the old building all around it. This is a very populated field that sees a lot of detectors. But this area makes most detectors unusable.Even my Troy has a hard time seeing it's way through. But this school has given me 4 gold rings-It has potential even in the tough areas due to the large amounts of sports played on these fields.
Knowing how well this unit did in the nail board test I decided to use it in that area...Almost gave up on it after about 2 hours of tabs & building scrap & can slaw. Then I found this beauty!. Marked 14K Italy & I gotta say I am happy I stuck with it....
Also found a small silver ring but that was mid-field with my Troy X2...Gotta use the right tool for the job as they say. And this cheap little sucker shines where more power full units go bonkers.