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New Fisher F-4 Photos

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Mr.Bill

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I don't have any info on the detector yet, at least not a lot of it. It's a intermediate price range unit. It should be available with concentric or DD coils. Not certain of the coil sizes yet, or the pricing.

If anyone is over in the Lynchburg VA. area Saturday or Sunday, go to the GPAA meet there, and stop by the Fisher table. Mayra from Fisher will be there to show you the new F-4. (gee, I hope I spelled her name correctly :) )
 
Is that the same housing and the display as the BH Discovery 3300 that Radioshack sold or the Kellyco First Texas 3000.

Is there any specs out yet

bfodnes
 
I really don't have any info on it. The first time I saw the photo was a few minutes before I posted it.

I'm not familiar with what the 3300 unit looks like. It could be for all I know.

Bill
 
The Bounty Hunter Discovery 3300 is sold by Radio Shack with a list price of about $300. Recently this detector has gotten a lot of favorable comments on the web. RS inexplicably marked them way down to around $100 or less and many of them were snapped up (I bought 2 of them myself). The performance is surprisingly good. It has ground balance adjust, notch and can use all 3 BH coil sizes (though this may require tweaking by BH). When fitted with the 10" coil some owners even wrote that they found it comparable to the Tejon and T2 in depth or nearly so. I believe it is based on a George Payne design but I'm not sure about that.

The Titan 3000XD is said to be the same detector as the 3300 but with sturdier hardware and a longer warranty. It is sold by K at $400 I think.

Please note that I'm not saying the new Fisher F4 is the same as either of these models. I have no idea and no connection to the mfr whatever. There is an obvious outward resemblence to the F4 but they could have totally different electronics. Also note that the button arrangement on the 3300 and 3000XD are essentially the same but the F4 has a different arrangement.

EC
 
It makes me really sad to see a fine old established Detector Company like Fisher to be used like this. My grandson bought a radio shack 2200 for $69 and it was the cheapest piece of plastic crap I'd ever seen, we returned it twice for repairs and finally gave up and banished it to the goodwill bin.
And now I see the same plasic shell with the Fisher logo and it just makes me sick.
Its obvious First Texas bought Fisher for the Prestige the name carries with it, but you must earn a good name not buy one.
 
Eddie can you put up a comparison of the Radio Shack 2200 and the Fisher F4 on the same page?
Not the 3300 the 2200.
 
Hi Mike, do you think this is an indication of the all out demise of the Fisher company we knew of old ?

John Tomlinson, CET
 
Three piece locking shaft, better coil, arm rest. The detector construction is solid, no wobble in the lower shaft. If the coil is the same as the T2 and only worked on the T2 then the electronics inside must be enhanced. Check one out and see for yourself.
 
[quote Mike T]It makes me really sad to see a fine old established Detector Company like Fisher to be used like this. My grandson bought a radio shack 2200 for $69 and it was the cheapest piece of plastic crap I'd ever seen, we returned it twice for repairs and finally gave up and banished it to the goodwill bin.
And now I see the same plasic shell with the Fisher logo and it just makes me sick.
Its obvious First Texas bought Fisher for the Prestige the name carries with it, but you must earn a good name not buy one.[/quote]

My very first detector was a Fisher. Back in those days, build quality was excellent. I actually bought a new 1236x2 recently, and as a Fisher fanatic (also got a Coinstrike and dug a few thousand coins with a CZ5) I was dismayed just how far downhill the build quality had gone. I love the Fisher brand; its always been the name that you can trust but these new machines will disgust the Fisher fanatics on looks alone.

Sure, they might be wonderful and innovative machines. But expect to see secondhand CZ prices jump when these machines are released and inevitably other machines will be removed from the Fisher line up.

I can't see Fisher diehards taking to these however well they perform.
 
[quote Mike T]Eddie can you put up a comparison of the Radio Shack 2200 and the Fisher F4 on the same page?
Not the 3300 the 2200.[/quote]

The 2200 is different. Not the same case at all. I doubt it's related to the F4.

EC
 
[quote Mike T]My grandson bought a radio shack 2200 for $69 and it was the cheapest piece of plastic crap I'd ever seen, we returned it twice for repairs and finally gave up and banished it to the goodwill bin.
And now I see the same plasic shell with the Fisher logo and it just makes me sick.[/quote]

It's not a 2200 shell. The F4 and 2200 have completely different shape. It may be a 3300 shell but most likely with Fisher stem and other hardware. I have a 3300 and the control box shell alone does not have a sturdiness problem as far as I can see. It seems at least as strong as the plastic shell on my Fisher ID Excel.

Why not wait until you get all the info and actually see the detector before you decide to get sick?

EC
 
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