Neal. On electrical conductivity of materials.

[tabdog]

Neal and I bombed a post earlier. This is
just to respond to Neal on a fresh post.

Neal said:

Now on the low end, please do me a favor and post of pic
of some gold you

 

[Neil]

I thought you were referring to small gold you found. This was your post:

I agree to a point. It may help to find large gold.

But I sold 90 grams of gold. Most of it was so small
that any meter would have been usless.

A small irregular shaped gold object will fool any
meter, especially with any depth involved.

I'm talking about readings lower than iron. Just bairly
decernable with a good all metal mode.

Everyone thinks that's too much trouble. But that
90 grams of small gold jewelry got me a check for
$1,290. I kept the nice peices.

And I am getting more all the time. I just restarted
MDing about a year ago.

Wasn't too much trouble for me.

Happy Hunting,



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Tabdog in Arkie Land


Sorry, my misunderstanding, I thought you were referring to small gold jewelry that reads lower on a metal detectors meter than iron. Thanks for clearing that up and good hunting to you!

Neil

 

[tabdog]

Hay Neal,

I've read a lot of your post.

I just wanted to say that I admire you for always trying to help fellow MDers.

Your hunting techniques are interesting to me because you hunt the lower
conductors. You're appearently looking for gold.

That's what I do also. I could never let loose of enough money at one time to
get a high end machine.

I need the money so I dig clad. I could ignore it if I wanted. I can tell the diff
between a copper pinny and a clad pinny just using the disk.

I am dissabled, a single parent of two teenaged boys. I am on a fixed income
and the boys receive survivors bennifits. I have to spend almost all my money
on the boys and bills. To accumulate $100 or $300 to buy a new machine meant
finding booty.

I have spent about $1,600 on all my metal detectors and coils. My most expensive
digger is less than $10. I make a lot of my tools. $30 for a diamond tester and $120
on a gold tester. $165 on headphones and about $80 on two electronic pin pointers.

I got $1,290 from Midwest refinery. I got about $250 in clad. I sold some artillary
fuse timers. $150. I still got more to sell, and have found more sense then.

In other words as it goes out, it must come in because:

At the end of the year I had $2,000 in each of the boy's bank account for the year.

Conciquently I know nothing about high end machines.

I had to find a low cost 2 filter machine that could produce.

I have accumulated 4 Tesoro'es and sold the others with displays or low operating
frequencies. They were usless to me. So you see where I am comming from.

Guess I have to plead total ignorance when it comes to a lot of the things you talk
about.

I just had to keep it simple. Maybe I am jellious of people who can explore the high
end machines. But at the same time admire their hunting skills.

I'm just one of those old analog hunters that is resistant to change.

I think you are a great guy.

Keep it up,

 

[Pap]

Maybe I'm mistaken Tabdog but your statement 'lower than iron" I took to mean a detector that was a true 180 ED as opposed to those that are limited to ED 120. Any ED 120 phase unit will null on iron with the exception of large iron.
Pap

 

[tabdog]

hay pap,

yes I have been using my Compadre mostly, and my Euro
Sabre which both have a full ED 180. But I also use my my
Vaquero and SS uMax which do not have a full ED 180 .

But sense the ED 120's have iron written on some of the
face plates and talks about iron in the manuals, would a
target that would not respond in the disc mode not be
concidered lower than iron on that machine?

As I said, maybe I did not use the best choice of words.

All I was saying is that I dug targets that would not make
enough of a signal in the disc mode to register as a target.

Now sense the machine is only responding to frequency
changes and knows nothing about materials, would the
response not be lower than that of iron?

Here's my quote:

A small irregular shaped gold object will fool any
meter, especially with any depth involved.

I'm talking about readings lower than iron. Just bairly
decernable with a good all metal mode.

I in no way said that gold was a lower conductor than iron.

If I gave that impression, I am sorry.

Happy Hunting,

 

[Pap]

in no way did I think you were saying gold fell below iron.
Pap