new toy

[jeff b]

Got a new Quattro on the way from Chuck@ Treasure Hut.Look forward to spending time with you guys on the forum.Hope you dont mine all the questions to follow.

 

[beachguy777]

I'm so excited for you Jeff. You bought a great detector, I think,: and you just jump on in here and ask all the questions you want. I love this site because it's so personable and informative. Let us know how your doing with it and what you find. I know you've probably heard this before but this forum is such an upper when you consider all the great info and comradery there is here. I feel like I almost know a lot of these people, even though I've never met them. It's a pretty friendly site and a great place to share our experiences with a hobby that we're all jazzed about.:|

 

[raptro5618]

Glad you joined. I am new here so if you go through the other posts you will see I asked plenty of questions. The answers are always helpful even if my problem is something that is difficult or impossible to resolve which is a help also. I do not get as frustrated when I have a problem that is common to all and not a problem becaues I do not know what i am doing.

I think this forum as well as some of the others here helped me learn at a much faster rate than had I tried to learn on my own.

While I am new to this one other thing I would say, is try and make it fun. I got frustrated for a while when things were not working the way I imagined they would. This is a hobby and a way to have fun so I do things the way they are fun for me.

I chose to just go out and search and see what I got after figuring out what to look for. No test garden as I am too lazy to put one together and my yard has too much crap or mineralization in it. I also have on many ocassions used the MD when I had no intentions of digging. Felt like I was learning the tones, practicing pinpointing and getting more familiar with it even though I could not prove what I was finding. I never really did that on a site where there was lots of stuff which would have got me anxious to go back with something to dig with but my point is that I have not made this a competition. I am very competative and so it would not be much fun if every outings success was based upon how much I found.

Instead I treat it like a puzzle to be solved. It still amazes me how in the same area one day there are lots of targets and other days there are none or very few. I think there are so many variables that it is a real challenge trying to analyze what is going on during every day out.

 

[jeff b]

Thanks for the welcome,I look forward to getting the unit and getting my hands on the manual.I am going to approch this with as much paitence as possible and really try and understand the Quattro.I live in Wisconsin so there are not to many digging days left this year.I will have many a night with Andy's book and this forum coming up.

 

[beachguy777]

I guess if you can break through the snow and ice, you have a chance, but you certainly have a berrior to contend with, but wait til spring. I'll bet your the "horse waiting to get out of the stall".

 

[Golden]

with the Quattro. It's a great machine, and it's done very well for me! It was my first ever coin/relic detector, and I still love it. All we need is an underwater Quattro, and I'd be in heaven!
Looking forward to you posting some of your finds!
Cheers Angela

 

[beachguy777]

Dear Golden, I feel the same way about the underwater thing. Go back to some "way earlier" posts, if they're still there and "Virginia Mike" I think, was talking about some guy from New York or somewhere that built a housing for the Explorer, that I would think might fit the Quttro too. He had some pictures of it and it looked "killer design" in my opinion. This bad boy looked professional and I was gonna try and email the guy in New York to see if I could get one. No joke, this thing looked good, so, if your interested, you might look back a ways. I wish I remember when, but I think it might have been last year. I'll bet Mike would know. Beachguy. Imagine that, taking the Quatro underwater. We'd scare everyone to death with a setup like that.:|

 

[Golden]

handles salt water without a problem, and detecting with it in water is no different to dry land, I've found. For me personally, it definitely would be the way to go for water detecting. Now that Minelab have brought out the new Explorer, I just hope they might be reading the posts on the Quattro, and consider it, at least as a challenge!
Golden

 

[beachguy777]

Amen to the salt water thing. I used to have nothing but problems in the past with that with other detectors. Seems to be almost non existant with the Quatro. I sometimes have to scan my scoop to make sure the thing is still on it gets so quiet. I've actually done that for real. Once in a while I get a little falsing but it's almost always because of wet sand on the bottom of the coil. I just wash it off, and/or re balance the noise deal and it seems to do the trick.

 

[beachguy777]

You know what, Golden. Maybe we all ought to get together on this and inundate them with letters and emails about making us a "warrenty friendly", waterproof housing for the Quatro. I almost can't imagine why they havn't done it already, except it might pull sales away from the Excallibur. That might be the reason. It also might be tough to get to all the buttons in a waterproof housing.