treasuremaster 1000 PI

[soplanter]

I am curious about the 1000 PI from the 80's. No one seems to know about it. I would like a little history from someone. This a orange model for underwater.
I have tried whites and all I get is a manual which is great but doesn't tell how good the mach. is or why they didn't apparently sell too many. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

 

[Cupajo]

When the PI version first came out, there were a few hunters using them at the beach I frequent.

There seemed to be a problem pinpointing with the big coil!

One fellow, an older Italian gent, used to dig huge bunkers of holes and I came along behind him and picked up coins and one ring in his "tailings"!!!

I never tried one because I lucked into a Garrett XL500PI which was easy to use and found me 275 Gold rings and over 20 Lbs. of silver coins and jewelry in the water in a three year period!

Last year, after not water hunting in twenty or so years, I rebuilt the battery pack and found four gold rings (all old and all deep with the XL500)!

CJ

 

[Steve Howard]

PI 1000 was designed primarily for deep water salvage, mail box blow holes and sea floor vacuum/dredge. Big ticket operations out of most peoples league especially these days... "unless you can afford both a big boat and a good lawyer". Typically, gets some hits, either blow the hole or vacuum the area. Beach and surf use was secondary or a side effect. Ken White has a great collection of cobs, pieces of eight, and more to the PI 1000 credit. However, individual target and small jewelry was not the major design goal until the Surfmaster PI.

Law enforcement had great results with the PI 1000 series. They always searched for guns and knifes unusually with a good idea where they were thrown from, bridges, docks, etc.

PI 1000 series will take the cold water and rough conditions a lot better than models that are more sensitive to very small targets.

Howard

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks for the info Howard,

Now it makes a lot of sense.

GL&HH Friend,

CJ

 

[RTP]

I did very well with one searching Southern California beaches after the winter storms back in the 80