11 hours of heavy swinging on the 800-- I was using a modified AndyS for Park 1 and original Park 2, and went to a local spot I've hit pretty hard over a couple years. My plan was to dig everything, and everything was dug.
As I'm a glass is half empty kind of guy, I usually focus on the negatives, so bear with me:
manufacture seems cheap and brittle
miss how with a flip of the knob you can't compress the length by half-- handy in a compact car.
annoyed that you have to take the entire dirty machine indoors, to try to charge with that pathetically tiny charging cord. WTF is up with that?
you have to print your own manual-- asinine. Hell, we referred to Ronstars today in a parking lot.
nickel area loves copper and brass-- slammed Sharps and Cannon fuse brass that my other machines put into different categories.
On the plus side-- it is possible that target separation is better. Time will tell. Very llightweight. Man can it pick up the tiniest bit of canslaw in park 2. That will be swell for gold hunting. Surprised I didn't sniff out this merc with the etrac or ctx already.
Do I regret the purchase? Not sure yet-- not sure if it will replace my etrac and ctx, but I'm keeping an open mind.
Tickled that I knew that ring and merc were silver from the tone. Disturbed that I got a 34 reading that turned out to be a clad dime-- but from the tones, it didn't sound as perfect.
The one thing that is frustrating me and maybe you guys can help me out, as the manual isn't helpful: when I first got the machine and tried to program AndyS, it wouldn't let me. I only got to play with two tone bins. Exasperated, I did a factory resent-- then I could do that. Today I wanted to change some of the bins in the field... and it wouldn't let me. You know, when you click and hold on the tone break button, then it gets underlined... the machine wouldn't let me change anything but the tone1 bin. I wanted to move different numbers to different bins and change the tones of said bins... nope... wouldn't let me. So my question is, after you save a custom setting, I guess you can't change it? You must reset and start over? If so, that is ridiculous.
Anyway, hope this doesn't come off as too negative-- been putting out mechanical fires all afternoon, am furious at how automobile engineers design things, and I'm typing like a spastic thesaurus.
The inscription on the ring: WWJD? I'm like, WTF? My Catholic gal says, 'That's a cool 'what would Jesus do ring!' So that's what that is. As for the dime-- 1917. A lot of young boys died that year.
Best,
As I'm a glass is half empty kind of guy, I usually focus on the negatives, so bear with me:
manufacture seems cheap and brittle
miss how with a flip of the knob you can't compress the length by half-- handy in a compact car.
annoyed that you have to take the entire dirty machine indoors, to try to charge with that pathetically tiny charging cord. WTF is up with that?
you have to print your own manual-- asinine. Hell, we referred to Ronstars today in a parking lot.
nickel area loves copper and brass-- slammed Sharps and Cannon fuse brass that my other machines put into different categories.
On the plus side-- it is possible that target separation is better. Time will tell. Very llightweight. Man can it pick up the tiniest bit of canslaw in park 2. That will be swell for gold hunting. Surprised I didn't sniff out this merc with the etrac or ctx already.
Do I regret the purchase? Not sure yet-- not sure if it will replace my etrac and ctx, but I'm keeping an open mind.
Tickled that I knew that ring and merc were silver from the tone. Disturbed that I got a 34 reading that turned out to be a clad dime-- but from the tones, it didn't sound as perfect.
The one thing that is frustrating me and maybe you guys can help me out, as the manual isn't helpful: when I first got the machine and tried to program AndyS, it wouldn't let me. I only got to play with two tone bins. Exasperated, I did a factory resent-- then I could do that. Today I wanted to change some of the bins in the field... and it wouldn't let me. You know, when you click and hold on the tone break button, then it gets underlined... the machine wouldn't let me change anything but the tone1 bin. I wanted to move different numbers to different bins and change the tones of said bins... nope... wouldn't let me. So my question is, after you save a custom setting, I guess you can't change it? You must reset and start over? If so, that is ridiculous.
Anyway, hope this doesn't come off as too negative-- been putting out mechanical fires all afternoon, am furious at how automobile engineers design things, and I'm typing like a spastic thesaurus.
The inscription on the ring: WWJD? I'm like, WTF? My Catholic gal says, 'That's a cool 'what would Jesus do ring!' So that's what that is. As for the dime-- 1917. A lot of young boys died that year.
Best,
