Vaquero is back with a ten turn pot

[nad]

If you remember, I sent my Vaquero to Sven to have a ten turn pot installed.. The V is a new machine all over again.. First time I adjusted the zero point, it worked like gang busters, second time I got lost in the 20 degree weather.with targets under the ground balance point....Third time , got there again..I put a nickel on the ground, distance on a stick 11 plus inches no problem.( Set on Discrimination just a tad below nickel, sensitivity under the red zone).Sven did nice work..I'll try and post some pictures later..Right now, it is too early to tell what the ten turn pot will do.( if anything).I was cold when playing outside in the wind. We all get ideas and hope that they will impart magical properties ..Plenty of time to see what is happening before the season starts..Sven, thank you very much for taking this project on, cordially NAD

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

NAD 11" on a nickle is really good , as good as the fisher f-75 alls i know is my golden craps out at about 6" on a nickle I like your gusto to explor better options and make things better cant wait to hear of the finds you will make Gunnar

 

[tabdog]

Hay Nad,

That's cool.

I can not wait ta hear about tha exploits
of Nad and his Hot Rod Cibola.

No disrespect intended.

I love tha idea.

HH,

Tabdog

 

[nad]

Temps in the 40's and 50's..Went out fooling around to get ground balance down pat and see how things check out.. With the 10 turn, I went all the way counter clockwise , then five turns clockwise to be at center.. To get GB, I lifted, and set the coil down.Adjusted ...Lifted again until there was no sound on either lift or down, then a quarter turn to get balance pointed to ground side..And, maximum sensitivity.(?). Did not touch dial,or turn it unless the coil was on the ground ,still, not moving......Checked out a nickel, set disc to crackle just below ..Here is the interesting part.Go across the lawn, swinging the detector above a pair of vise grips....no signal???!!!! Put the coil on the pair of Peterson vice grips and nothing.???.Would find a Sledge hammer head, wedge, gold rings, silver dime,,nickel, at, to me , impressive distances........So, if you lose a pair of Peterson ,made in the USA, vice grips, don't consider borrowing my "V" to find them..Very simple explanation somewhere.,,which escapes me at the moment..The ground is still frozen,wet on top, and my wife yells when I come home with muddy knees. The test will come shortly. Last time out , thinking about silver, got a Roosevelt, "knew " a second was close, got the Merc....Being uncomfortable, I left not picking off the "other one"..You can make the Twilight Zone sounds, but I am enjoying the hell out of this, ..Anyway, I am pickled tink with the excellent work Sven did on the "V".....It is still too early to know if my feeling about the ten turn pot was/is valid.Cordially Nad

 

[tvr]

I have to laugh about the muddy knees!!!

Our compromise is that I have my two pairs of detecting jeans that have permanently muddy and frayed knees. I won't wear them if I am running errands with her and they are the only ones I wear when I go digging.

Always good to hear when someone is pickled tink!
tvr

 

[nad]

Went out for an hour.Very sloppy ,so I made a kneeling pad with cardboard in a Wally world plastic bag..No "kids" knees. Made one pass of about 100 feet, turned around and the sky opened up. Found two tabs, eighty cents, and a gold plated silver ring..Most of the gold was gone..I was able to get a depth on one of the nickles at 8 inches. This from ground surface to impression in hole..Since the grass was bunched. I picked the coin up at least two or better inches higher..Tried the pin pointer out...had never used it before..Was a help on several of the coins that were tumbled..Someone else had been there, pulled a cent out of one of his holes....All ego aside, I am leaving stuff due to the high grass and twisted soil. Looking things over, a good half acre of "stuff" still there...And, when I'm done, a good half acre of "stuff" will still be there....Cordially Nad.

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

Nad finding a nickle at 8" in the ground ..whoo its hard to think a metal detector can get that deep you got that thing on steroids is that ilegal? its not fair