New compadre

[deerhunter]

Just bought me a new compadre,Should have it in a few days.!!!!!I hear they are great little detectors. Any helpful information would be greatly appreciated. thanks

 

[slingshot]

All you need is a bobby pin or small nail and several different sizes of foil and you'll know what to do. If you have any thin or small jewelry, scan it while checking the trash. Most set it right at small nail reject in tot lots or small foil reject elsewhere.

 

[joe dirt_1]

deerhunter, Congratulations on the new Compadre! I have always wanted one myself. When I see all the gold you are finding with yours it might make me take the plunge for one....lol. I'm sure the forum members here will have some operating tips for you. This is your first Tesoro but I bet you it won't be the last. They are excellent detectors and just a blast to hunt with. I see many indian head pennies in your future......

Roger

 

[DetectorOCD]

I have been using the heck out of mine! It DESTROYS on the tot lots Enjoy it!

 

[Hank68]

Thumbs up!

 

[deerhunter]

thanks

 

[ToddB64]

Hi deerhunter !

I bought a new Tesoro Compadre (5.75" coil) May 31, 2011 from Edit XXXXXXXXXXXXX Mike's regular price for a Compadre Scuff Cover is $8.00, but he agreed to match price with another well known dealer. Shipping was Free. I received the Compadre in one week, on June 6, 2011 and it was well packaged. I am very pleased with cost, prompt delivery and the Compadre !

With the dial indicator at the "F" in Foil (my usual setting), my take for today at a local park was as follows:

(1) Hook ear ring, 3-drop
(1) Quarter
(4) Dimes
(3) Nickels
(6) Copper Pennies (Pre - 1982)
(13) Zincer Pennies (Post - 1982)
(7) Stay Tabs
(1) Beaver Tail Pull Tab
(1) lead bullet, plastic tipped
(5) Sundry items (can slaw, chunks of aluminum and bronze, etc.)
_____________________
(42) Items total


I hope you received your new Compadre in time for a trial run this week-end. You will love it's light weight and easy one dial operation. I keep my dial at low discrimination, so as not to miss any 10K small thin gold rings and larger rings of higher "K" grade. Of course, I dig some junk too. Remember to check the dial occasionally to be sure it hasn't been bumped off position.......that happened to me three times today and I had to re-set the dial. If that becomes a regular nuisance, I'll put a rubber O-ring under the dial to create more drag and resistance to movement.

Good luck and let us know what you find !

HH...........ToddB64






HH.......ToddB64

 

[slingshot]

Hi deerhunter !

I bought a new Tesoro Compadre (5.75" coil) May 31, 2011 from Edit XXXXXXXX but he agreed to match price with another well known dealer. Shipping was Free. I received the Compadre in one week, on June 6, 2011 and it was well packaged. I am very pleased with cost, prompt delivery and the Compadre !

With the dial indicator at the "F" in Foil (my usual setting), my take for today at a local park was as follows:

(1) Hook ear ring, 3-drop
(1) Quarter
(4) Dimes
(3) Nickels
(6) Copper Pennies (Pre - 1982)
(13) Zincer Pennies (Post - 1982)
(7) Stay Tabs
(1) Beaver Tail Pull Tab
(1) lead bullet, plastic tipped
(5) Sundry items (can slaw, chunks of aluminum and bronze, etc.)
_____________________
(42) Items total


I hope you received your new Compadre in time for a trial run this week-end. You will love it's light weight and easy one dial operation. I keep my dial at low discrimination, so as not to miss any 10K small thin gold rings and larger rings of higher "K" grade. Of course, I dig some junk too. Remember to check the dial occasionally to be sure it hasn't been bumped off position.......that happened to me three times today and I had to re-set the dial. If that becomes a regular nuisance, I'll put a rubber O-ring under the dial to create more drag and resistance to movement.

Good luck and let us know what you find !

HH...........ToddB64






HH.......ToddB64

Be careful! I think Skiwhiz had a post about there being a couple of set screws. Experiment with the settings-as I keep mine on the "o" in iron because it's just enough to handle the iron ore rocks here in E. Texas and just blips on the bottle cap and still gets the thin rings. As far as coins, the thing finds them all-but I really was impressed with the no. of nickels and dimes increase.

 

[deerhunter]

Received my compadre and met up with my hunting buddy to try it out,this is what i found . 2 old kids toys and a 1936 buffalo . This old grove has been hunted for 25-30 years and were still pulling old stuff out.

 

[DiGGER27]

Just bought me a new compadre,Should have it in a few days.!!!!!I hear they are great little detectors. Any helpful information would be greatly appreciated. thanks

As you know I just got mine a little while ago and my last hunt was most excellent with my silver and gold finds.

Still learning, but this is what I know.

In air testing, nickels go farther than quarters.
I thought this was strange since no other detector I own does this, but I am pretty sure it has to do with the circuitry and I am glad because this is my jewelry hunter.
My Vaq loves nickels too, due to the 14.5 Khz, but quarters air test further on that one.

Gold does not go as far as coins on my other detectors, on the Compadre they seem to go just about as far.
Yea, again.

I KNOW when I am swinging over something zinc because the disc knob will be just a little south of 3:00.
On that hunt the other day I picked up 28 pennies, most of them zinc and one zinc button and every zinc item was exactly the same.

On these coin targets and other good targets vs bad ones...that disc knob will tell you stuff you need to know.
Turn it up and it will usually just cut out when you get past the zinc area, for instance, turn it past and then back to where it comes in and it just comes in...no fuzzyness or crackling.

Bad targets like odd shaped foil will usually have that small area of crackle both ways.
Not always, but most of the time.

Using Sllingshots method of putting the disc on iron, I could pick up some iron nails but also very tiny pieces of can slaw and foil.
One signal was not either in my last hunt...it was a small gold ring.
Most of these type targets at this setting were solid with the Tesoro shake, but all of them were shallow.
Deeper ones could break up more.

Sometimes, doing the Tesoro shake will tell you if you have a bad target if it breaks up.
Same with hitting the target from a different angle...bad targets could fade out completely or be solid one way but not the other.

Every target that acted this way for me has been junk so far, but that is not to say some good targets will too, just on the several hundred I have dug so far that broke up with the shake have been garbage.
Some garbage did not break at all, there is a reason I dig most everything...I never really know what that thing is till I dig it and it drives me crazy to think I could be passing by something good.

Stay tabs, beaver tails and pop tops, well...still working on those.
Some break up shaking over them, some do not, especially the shallow ones.
Different angles help, sometimes, sometimes not.
Some have tha area of crackling before they fade in or out by thumbing the knob, some did not, the shallower ones for sure.
I hate all of these things!

I know from experience coins will usually have a more fully rounded tone than other targets, when I roll over a coin my senses just tingle and I just know, but this skill came from 100's of hours swinging my Vaq and pop tops could sound similar a lot of the time but they are slightly less full and don't ring all the way through like coins do.
That is real hard to explain but it is like being able to pick out and hear a silver coin hit a hard surface even if it is dropped with other clad...you just know.
.
I used sllingshots method of hovering around iron, or just discing out a paper clip and leaving the knob there, but I want to thumb that knob so much it drives me crazy to do it this way.

I put the knob on all metal for the clearest signal and the best depth, got a signal, thumbed up to see where it faded out and then thumbed down to see exactly where it came in.
All Tesoro's are more accurate if you do it this way.

A very trashy iron laden site would drive you nuts with this method so doing the paperclip thing would be better there.

As always, very shallow targets will scream at you, deeper targets will sound further away and lower in volume.
They say it is not supposed to work this way and all targets will sound the same, but to me they did at first but now I can hear the difference.
Again, that took a lot of hours to learn, but it is second nature to me now.

Hope this all makes sense and is helpful.

HH

 

[slingshot]

I Told You you'd be afraid NOT to use it!

 

[bigolhorns]

If I'm not finding anything when using one of my other detectors I'll go get the Compadre.
Then I'll start finding stuff.Never fails, I don't get it

 

[slingshot]

pull tabs, sta-tabs, and beaver tails are aluminum. Pop tops are iron. You had to use a bottle opener to "pop" them off.

 

[slingshot]

If I'm not finding anything when using one of my other detectors I'll go get the Compadre.
Then I'll start finding stuff.Never fails, I don't get it

Me neither. I have all the "explanations" from those in the know-but it still puzzles me when I see it.

 

[ToddB64]

DIGGER27,

OK, so a "Pop Top" is actually a bottle cap and not a member of the Pull Tab family.........Right ?

Todd

 

[slingshot]

DIGGER27,

OK, so a "Pop Top" is actually a bottle cap and not a member of the Pull Tab family.........Right ?

Todd

 

[ToddB64]

pull tabs, sta-tabs, and beaver tails are aluminum. Pop tops are iron. You had to use a bottle opener to "pop" them off.

Thanks slingshot !

When I read DIGGER'S post #114, dated September 20, 2011 04:09PM, I must have left my "thinking cap" hanging on the coat tree !

Since he grouped "Stay tabs, beaver tails and pop tops" all together that way, I was lulled into thinking all three were aluminum pull tabs of different styles. OK, didn't think you'd buy that excuse.

I really should have known better........got to sharpen up and pay attention....lol.

HH...........Todd

 

[slingshot]

pull tabs, sta-tabs, and beaver tails are aluminum. Pop tops are iron. You had to use a bottle opener to "pop" them off.

Thanks slingshot !

When I read DIGGER'S post #114, dated September 20, 2011 04:09PM, I must have left my "thinking cap" hanging on the coat tree !

Since he grouped "Stay tabs, beaver tails and pop tops" all together that way, I was lulled into thinking all three were aluminum pull tabs of different styles. OK, didn't think you'd buy that excuse.

I really should have known better........got to sharpen up and pay attention....lol.

HH...........Todd

Well, get this. Until a few months ago I didn't know what dirt fishing was. I kept calling the sta-tab the "square tab that fell in the nickel range", I was so excited when I found the term" canslaw"-I thought that was neat and started using it like I knew what it was all the time. And when I read posts of people finding "nitro" rings, I started looking under precious metals-I thought it was like platinum or something- valuable.

 

[ToddB64]

pull tabs, sta-tabs, and beaver tails are aluminum. Pop tops are iron. You had to use a bottle opener to "pop" them off.

Thanks slingshot !

When I read DIGGER'S post #114, dated September 20, 2011 04:09PM, I must have left my "thinking cap" hanging on the coat tree !

Since he grouped "Stay tabs, beaver tails and pop tops" all together that way, I was lulled into thinking all three were aluminum pull tabs of different styles. OK, didn't think you'd buy that excuse.

I really should have known better........got to sharpen up and pay attention....lol.

HH...........Todd

Well, get this. Until a few months ago I didn't know what dirt fishing was. I kept calling the sta-tab the "square tab that fell in the nickel range", I was so excited when I found the term" canslaw"-I thought that was neat and started using it like I knew what it was all the time. And when I read posts of people finding "nitro" rings, I started looking under precious metals-I thought it was like platinum or something- valuable.

Well, we all have to learn.........no shame in that slingshot !
BTW, what is a nitro ring ?

Todd

 

[slingshot]

Well, a nitro is one that you dig up that looks like you just paid for your metal detector only to find it's costume jewelry that makes you wonder why the heck it couldn'ta been gold.