BarnacleBill
New member
Since I am wading I had some fears(well founded) of dropping the Tornado in the water since it has no Velcro arm band. I had purchased several portable CD player pouches cheap, to use as back up treasure pouches and decided to sacrifice one of the Spandex straps as an arm band. No drilling or cutting was done so that it would not effect re-sale value should I decide to part with the machine.
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Since the coil is fairly buoyant once you get in 2ft or so of water there is a small issue with the way the lower coil stem threads onto the coil shaft as it is held in place by tightening it against a rubber washer. So it is simply a friction fit and the coil tends to want to turn as it tries to float back to the surface. I am thinking a little Loctite Thread Lock might do the trick.
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I have found the coil will sound off(audio)if banged up against an object(rock), whether this is normal for the machine I don't know, however it is a used machine, so that newer versions may not act this way.
Some user observations:
The reverse discrimination works very nicely but there is a 1-2 second lag when pulling the trigger for the machine to react and change modes. So pull the trigger, 1 elephant, 2 elephant, re-sweep target.
I did locate the pictured aluminum eyelet at about 7 inches deep with a good solid signal which pleased me as this portends well for small gold rings.
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HH
BarnacleBill
[attachment 49465 strap.jpg]
Since the coil is fairly buoyant once you get in 2ft or so of water there is a small issue with the way the lower coil stem threads onto the coil shaft as it is held in place by tightening it against a rubber washer. So it is simply a friction fit and the coil tends to want to turn as it tries to float back to the surface. I am thinking a little Loctite Thread Lock might do the trick.
[attachment 49466 circle.gif]
[attachment 49467 threadcoil.jpg]
I have found the coil will sound off(audio)if banged up against an object(rock), whether this is normal for the machine I don't know, however it is a used machine, so that newer versions may not act this way.
Some user observations:
The reverse discrimination works very nicely but there is a 1-2 second lag when pulling the trigger for the machine to react and change modes. So pull the trigger, 1 elephant, 2 elephant, re-sweep target.
I did locate the pictured aluminum eyelet at about 7 inches deep with a good solid signal which pleased me as this portends well for small gold rings.
[attachment 49468 aluminum.jpg]
HH
BarnacleBill