Nickles and pulltabs

[dirt lizard]

I'm finding out that sometimes when your getting a signal in the nickle range sometimes it becomes a pulltab as well. Are there pulltabs with nickel coating out there?

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Doubt it but in my neck of the woods an old variety comes in as nickel and are usually 4-5 inches deep...Just the nature of the beast just like tabs imitate gold rings...

 

[Wheat Cent]

My cz says nickel it's a nickel if it says pull tab it's a pull tab it is literally the only machine I have owned with the ability to accurately identify a nickel from a pulltab. They are made of the same metal I think, would make sense as to why they ring up the same.

 

[tvr]

Most nickles are made of 25% nickle and 75% copper. An exception is the war nickle. Before the nickles, the 5 cent coin was silver and known as a half disme.

Most can tabs are made of aluminum. Some are tin-plated steel. I have not run across any that are made of or plated with a metal more expensive than aluminum.

The picture shows a few selected metal detector ID numbers taken with my F75-LTD. Some of the tabs are pretty close to a nickle in ID number. I've dug some tabs like the one with the 33 ID number that are damaged and come in as nickle on the CZ. Damage that can make them detect as a nickle are: tab is bent, tab has the metal at the smaller loop end cut, or tab is degraded by corrosion.

Yes some of the tabs will ID as a nickle.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Have to admit a CZ is a killer on nickles but we have one old tab usually deep that hits nickel every time...I guess certain tabs were prevalent in different parts of country.

 

[Wheat Cent]

In that pic the orange colored tab us the most common for me. That and the square ones.

 

[trojdor]

I'm finding out that sometimes when your getting a signal in the nickle range sometimes it becomes a pulltab as well. Are there pulltabs with nickel coating out there?

dl,
No nickel plated tabs that I'm aware of. Not even sure it could be done. Or why.

The thing to remember is that no detector (currently) ID's the actual metal.
It only shows the relative conductivity of the target, and thus the 'probable' item.

The problem with nickels and aluminum tabs is that they are in a mid range where a lot of items of that conductivity fall...
Usually junk, but that's also smack dab in the middle of ring territory...gold or small silver.

If you find you're digging too much junk with your CZ-3D (especially those pesky zincolns), try switching over from the enhanced mode to the salt mode.
That will tighten up the ranges so you dig less junk, but you'll potentially lose some of the older coins, and some rings.

HH
mike

 

[dirt lizard]

Hi Mike, I dig only the tones in coin and nickel and foil. Any other I ignore. 3/4 of the time i'll be getting pulltab signals at most areas. I keep the disc at pulltab and sens at 5 and seem to get deep signals with at set up. I'm still new at using it and trying different settings to see how it runs.

 

[adamBomb]

I'm finding out that sometimes when your getting a signal in the nickle range sometimes it becomes a pulltab as well. Are there pulltabs with nickel coating out there?

I have pull tabs that ring as nickels and some that ring high. I think it depends on the depth of the pull tab and material.