Treasure Baron mod,

[Old California]

Here's a recent mod completed 4-6 weeks ago, Treasure baron with GoldTrax module using a Whites T-Handle.

This was done a little different leaving the module attached with the mother board, Normally with Baron mods the module is separated from the mother board and mounted in a separate miniature housing in this case the module will not fit in the one I went with so instead detached the push-pad feature then remounted the push-pad inside a medium size assembly above the handle. All functions are still operated at the upper push-pad along with other features transferred above the handle as well.

It was simple going with a harness attaching both module and push-pad, The lower push-pad mounted in the rear lower housing is a dummy push-pad plate from a broken down GoldTrax needed a plate to cover the hole so the broken push-pad was perfect.

Have a special way of using the GoldTrax for gold jewelry hunting which was one of my reasons completing this mod, the other reason is the Goldtrax in disc mode is one mean relic machine it will hold it's own with today's top end detectors on separation in iron ridden sites.

Have other barons and those too are modified but needed a permanent GoldTrax fixture for serious hunting so went with this setup, Overall the mod fell together quite well no issues surfaced and is a joy to use.

Thanks for looking,

Paul (Ca)

 

[OldBeechnut]

Looks real nice and some fine mods.....Good to see your still thinking outside of the Box and staying ahead of the competition....

 

[Old California]

Thanks beechnut,

This Goldtrax unit is amazing, Picked up a gold ring from a school playing field the other day. Have a special way of hunting going after low conductive targets only eliminating iron signals and high conductive, The ratio of low conductive trash is high but once in a while a gold ring surfaces.

Thanks again,
Paul (Ca)

 

[OldBeechnut]

It's funny you would hunt like that because the past 5 hunts with the Excalibur I have take one hour of the hunt time and hunted just like that. I have yet to find gold that way but the area I am hunting does not work to well with that style. But I do believe once at the ocean where there are fresh drops during the summer it will work great, and there is less trash.

How mine setup works, and it helps to understand if you have knowledge of the Excalibur....the excal automatically disc iron (when discriminating iron it has a low threshold growl), then there is a discriminate knob which will discriminate the low conductives, leaving the high conductive's ..when the knob is turned to 9 this will wipe out all low conductive, when you go across a low conductive like gold, foil it just blanks the audio and the threshold does not change at all from the higher threshold. Therefore I just dig targets that are blanked out, leaving the high conductive which give a regular report, and the iron which give the low nasty growl (null). I think it is a great way to let the machine do the cherry picken for you....And sounds like you have that Mastered with the Goldtrax....

 

[Old California]

Thanks beechnut for sharing how you run the Excalibur, Haven't tried your null approach with my Waterproof Sovereign but it sounds very interesting.

Here I thought I knew the BBS completely and you sharing something I have never tried, I will give it a whirl next time out with the Sovereign.

Thanks again very cool
Paul (Ca)