Tesoro Toltec II

[chavez y chavez]

Hello,
I just bought one of these units off Ebay for a Total price of $183 shipped I think I made a Good buy what you think? I know nothing about them but am really eager to get it next week and give her a go. I am in the Navy stationed at Tinker, AFB in Oklahoma City with the Navy Tacamo's program. I currently have 22 yrs in and will be retiring soon. This is not my 1st detector these are the past ones I have had and got rid of them about 4 years ago. Stupid me I know but I am glad to be coming back to the detecting.
Units owned:
1. Garret Grand Master Hunter
2. Compass Gold Scanner Pro
3. Whites XL Pro
4. Whites Eagle 90 SL

Would like any info you can give me on the Toltec any know good settings?
Thanks Matt

 

[Hombre]

Howdy Matt

My wife bought the Toltec ll for $500 new in 1994 Retail price was $599. At the same time I had the then new White's XLT. We learned together....... how to metal detect 16 years ago. The XLT was a bit complicated for me to learn, but when I got more hours on it, it was good at ID'ing targets that were well spaced apart ( this is with the stock 9 and 1/2 inch coil). My wife on the other hand, got acquainted real quick with the Toltec ll as it was knob adjusted with no menu selection adjustments as on the XLT. The Toltec ll would just plain out hunt the XLT in the iron nail sections of the places we hunted at. She was the first to find a gold ring with her detector, and at the same place I found a Walking liberty half dollar. Her gold ring trumped my walker. We still have the Toltec ll, but the XLT was traded off a long time ago.

My advice for operating the Toltec ll is to read the manual, it really is a simple detector to set up. The biggest complaint about the Toltec ll is the battery system (8 AA). I've had to send the Toltec back to the factory for battery compartment repair. The batery system is kind of fragile, so take extra care placing the batteries in it.Basically it is a turn on and go detector, just run all the controls at the pre-set marks on the dial. The threshold should be set a 'just' audible tone using headphones.As you become more experienced with it, you can check your ground balance in the all-metal mode and it shoud be set "just a hair" positive for your clean (metal free) ground. All of this is explained well in the manual. The manul is available from Tesoro, if it does not come with one. Good luck.

Randy

 

[chavez]

Well,
I sent this detector off to Tesoro Last week lookimg fwd to getting it back hopefully get a chance to use it for a week or two before I deploy out again. I asked them to see if they can upgrade the 2 AA battery packs to a different set-up other than that just to give it a good clean bill of health check-up.
matt