My rainy day detector...can you guess what it is?

[Darkflight]

Of course it's cheap & only splash proof/hose down Ok so far...And I built it with crazy glue & a sheet of clear plastic-scored it using a ruler & a knife-very rudimentary. Dremel the holes & move a few things around. No speaker holes & the headphone jack is plugged & sealed with an adaptor. The coil wire is also sealed-I used liquid elctrical tape,2 coats & the cable is tied to prevent stress. The switches have snug o rings & silicon dressing lightly applied. It helps hold the settings wich I rarely touch on this machine anyhow. Last clue-its a tone machine-and a dang good one at that despite the price.

 

[BarberBill]

Nice job that should do what you want it to. Personally, I don't find detecting in the rain at all appealing.
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[Hank68]

Good fab work!

 

[ralph]

Me thinks its a bounty hunter, prob tracker 4

 

[Darkflight]

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[Darkflight]

A interesting unit I would have never looked at if I hadn't had so much success with my Discovery 3300. I read some posts about it being designed by George Payne and what a good surface skimmer it was & bought one cheap. The one I bought had a board dated 2001 & the GB setting was waaaay off for my area. I doubt the average joe would have had any luck with it. Simple adjustment made by using a local hot rock to do the setting .

Anyhow-when set up correctly it is a very effective filter machine. Not a depth demon but thats not what its for. Seperating trash is its forte.

Those familiar know the drill but in a nutshell you set the toggle to tone & then set discrimination to break on a zinc.Tabs,nickles,foil etc... all have a distinct tone once learned its very quick. It also ignores most bottle caps fairly well-

This is about all I want when its wet out & the fact is-living in Oregon it rains a lot.I just went out during the rain delay for Daytona & hit a very trashy homesite.Household debris plowed in the ground trashy. Slow work produces a few keepers now & then. But it's extreme trash ratio has left it one of the few spots I can sniff out a silver once in a while.

No silver today but a nice old piece of a bracelet or something that I'd wager is very old.

Roman head on copper-I searched for more links but this is all I found. But considering the area-it's a decent find.

 

[Charles (Sabre)(Tx)]

Super mod there! Hunting in the rain can be fun...but watch out for any lightning! I've had an experience where I was close to a flagpole that got hit while I was detecting in the rain. My unit (Fisher 1265X) with a plastic baggie crackled every time lightning would strike but I kept on a hunting because the site I was on was only going to be open a short time. I think God warned me off when it hit that flagpole as I dropped the unit and ran off to my car! After a while the rain subsided and I went back to get the Fisher and put her up for the day...that was enough!

BTW...it was on Thanksgiving Day...after lunch. I should have stayed home.