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skookum said:High,
Have you tried it with the pulltab ring broken/snipped apart ?? Or folded over ??
Maybe this way, the pulltab doesn
skookum said:High,
Seem not to be able to find the link to the video:
I think it was on youtube.
A guy with his old compass T/R metal detector doing a bench test and demonstrating quite clearly that his aged unit could see through different kinds of junk and still detect coins and rings(?) that were covered by other metals.
I don`t remember whether he was using pull tabs as junk-metal though.
None the less, it sure was impressive to see what his "not up to date" unit could do.
HH
skookum
I have found that "Fresh Buried" test gardens with depths beyond 4 to 5" just don't work until they have seasoned for a year or so (well lets say they don't give decent results).Nauti Neil said:Why do you not bury the items in the ground and then do the test again.This is the only real way of getting a more accurate conclusion from a test.It is a shame to pick one detector over another if the test is not performed under realworld conditions.It seems as you have a good combination of detectors though....no single detector can do everything so its always good to search the same area with two different machines particularly if the frequencies are considerably different.Good hunting for the new year.
Nauti Neil said:It all depends what type of ground you search....if it is ploughed land you search which is freshly disturbed the test is quite accurate.There are also simple methods of placing objects in a test bed without disturbing the ground in a way that will affect test results.
smokey63 said:Sorry for another long post. Yesterday I dug a small plug, placed the same quarter at 6 inches, same pulltab at 3 inches in wet soil. Tested the Vaquero with the 8x9 stock coil and the 10" Elliptical, no response from either coil when swinging the short width of the tab. Changed my swing pattern to run the length of the tab and response was one click from both coils from right to left (totally opposite from the previous test on top of the ground which was left to right) Supertuned again made no difference.
Yesterday, I forgot to mention that once you get that faint signal or click try the "Tesoro wiggle" as I have seen it referred to, which is basiclly holding the coil over the target and moving the coil quickly left to right no more than 2 inches if there is a good target there it will begin to respond with a better tone. I am sure most have heard of this, but for the ones that have not it is another trick in your arsenal. I'm courious if any other detectors will do this?
Now for the kicker, while standing there looking at the plug scratching my head again, I knew there had to be a way to pick that quarter up below that tab. The answer I found is to angle the coil at about a 45 degree angle and that quarter stuck out like a sore thumb. You can angle down to about 30 degrees, but there is where it starts to disappear again. So, I guess I will now disc out tabs to the point that there is just a slight signal and angle the coil to see if anything is under it while coin hunting.
Last, but not least the Whites Classic SL picked up the quarter once again in either swing direction with no problem at all. Has got to be the difference in frequency? Maybe somebody can chime in on the frequency question.