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Used CZ-6 price question

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oppie

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I've seen a number of used CZ-6's that have sold for less than $300 recently and they were seemingly in great condition. That leads me to my question: is there a reason the resale price is quite low? I thought I'd expect to pay a good 4-bills. Apparently not. BTW: I owned a 1266x up until 2006 (sold it) and don't currently own a Fisher. Though at the current prices I'm very tempted to land one of these. Oppie
 
Only made in 92 and 93 so at best 17 years old....They were fitted with an experimental coil connector that cannot be repaired as its a sealed unit...Many of these connectors failed and had to be converted to a CZ6A which was the unit which replaced it in late 93. Quite expensive to have them converted if they still are converting
over $100.00 at best. Another problem is all CZ's made after the CZ6 had a different connector so only coil that will fit it is the CZ6 coil...none of them up until the present CZ3D will fit so if your coil goes good luck in finding a replacement..All in all many CZ6's still on the road so to speak but if either problem arises almost cost prohibitive to fix them...All of the above makes them rather inexpensive to buy used...
 
Thanks Dan. That's very informative. Maybe I'll pass on the CZ-6.... :)
 
I know a guy who bought a new CZ3d and sold his CZ6 for $150 in good workin condition. That's the cheapest I have ever seen a CZ sold for.
 
I bought my CZ6A on E-bay about a month ago. My winning bid was 255.99. I won the bid by 99 cents.
I saw others at about the same time for up to 350.00. I lost a bid for a CZ 70 Pro that went for 450.00. I `ve not seen any lately though.
 
Having once owned a CZ-6 (wish I still owned it) I feel that if the machine is in "great" operating condition and you can buy it at the prices you say are out there I would make the purchase. They deliver great depth and the recovery between signals is very fast. Only problem I found with mine is nails at depths could fool you into thinking you had a coin. Mine if you listened close had a little chatter on those signals so I didn't have to dig quite so many. My son owns the CZ-6A and his has much more of a problem on nails, as the chatter mine gave isn't there on his. He really hates the problem as he still owns his machine.

My understanding is the CZ-6 gets better depth then newer CZ's. I only owned a CZ-7A after I sold mine and I sure didn't like it nearly as well. Reading some of the forums seems to back that assumption though.

Make sure you get the owners manual to help with learning to ground balance that machine. It is a critical function for depth and less falsing when operating.
 
Dan-Pa. said:
Only made in 92 and 93 so at best 17 years old....They were fitted with an experimental coil connector that cannot be repaired as its a sealed unit...Many of these connectors failed and had to be converted to a CZ6A which was the unit which replaced it in late 93. Quite expensive to have them converted if they still are converting
over $100.00 at best. Another problem is all CZ's made after the CZ6 had a different connector so only coil that will fit it is the CZ6 coil...none of them up until the present CZ3D will fit so if your coil goes good luck in finding a replacement..All in all many CZ6's still on the road so to speak but if either problem arises almost cost prohibitive to fix them...All of the above makes them rather inexpensive to buy used...
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Dan Thanks ... good information.
I bought a used CZ-6 that had been converted to a CZ-6A.
It has the same coil connector as on my CZ-3D so I assume it was.
Cant find any marks on or in it that indicates it was converted.

Air testing both units give about the same results.
Just got the CZ-3D (1021) and need to take them both out for a heads up comparison.
I will be very surprised if one can find a coin that the other can not detect.

BTW: on both units the auto tune mode gets several more inches of air test than the discriminate mode.
In auto tune mode it will detect coins farther away than the pinpoint can detect.
 
Another thing is the CZ6 had a pigtail for the headphone jack, where as the CZ6a was changed to a regular Headphone jack.
 
It sure goes deeper and covers a lot more ground ..sort of like using a larger coil without the extra weight...
 
Hi DAN-PA, Dose the autotune make the whole bottom of the coil detect? I know that most coils detect in a cone shape.How dose the autotune make the coil bigger? Thanks Dean
 
Technically don't know the answer but seems to project out further from the center giving more coverage...sort of like having a larger coil......bit noisy as it picks up all but with an analog unit one flip of switch and becomes a tone ID to give you idea what you have...certainly not for a junky park but for older areas with clean ground or perhaps a beach where you dig all a excellent
mode....
 
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