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DeepTech

Went From A Vaquero to a Tejon, and so i have a question :tesoro:

MarkCZ

MarkCZ

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First,
The brain dead thing I did, LoL!
The Tejon comes in today,
So I open it up and all looks good,
I Put it together and that went well,
Then I loaded up the battery holders,
Opened up the battery compartments to find that the battery contacts was polarity marked :shrug:
I looked in the other compartment to find it wasn't marked either :sadwalk:
So, I checked out the PDF manual only to find it didn't say anything about proper battery polarity :help:
Then I thought, well I can call my brother (WV62) and ask him, he has one of these things :poke:
It was then that I picked up the battery holders to see if they had some kind of markings on them, then I had a revelation!!!! A light bulb moment! they look like they would only work one way :rofl:

Well, I'm just so used to the 9v connectors having polarity marking I just knew they had to be there! LoL

Okay, my question.
I noticed that the discrimination scale on the face plate for nickel isn't close to nickel, now I know its just a reference and I know that the knobs are in place via set screws. So, I was thinking about making a better alignment for nickel and I was wondering if I did will that fix the nickels and mess everything else up? or if I align it will it most likely be better for the other target ranges?
I'd like to have it where nickels start to fall off a little just on the upside the 5 cent mark, now just a little above foil and a 3" deep nickel will break up.

And now that me and my brother WV62 both has a Tejon I guess we could be called the "Badger Brothers" LoL

Mark
 
You would have to look real close.If it is a round shaft and the knob can move freely,I don't see why not.I looked for polarity marks also.If the pot has a flat spot,then you can not move the knob.I think you will be happy with this detector.Note mark:You can ground balance the tejon by pulling the trigger back to the fast auto tune mode.It is much easier to GB in fast tune, than the slow retune normal run mode.The running all metal mode is slower,which is good for deep targets,but it is tricky on the ground balance.You will see in my upcoming video how well this detector handles emi.Let us know the likes and dislikes between the both.Congrats on the Tejon :clap:
 
Hi Mark, on a number of Tesoro's that I have had the disc. setting on a nickel was alittle off. What I do is place a nickel on the ground and turn the disc. dial to where it either crackles or is just disc.d out then loosen the disc. knob and place it on the nickel mark on the faceplate and then tighten the knob. Might have to do it a couple times to get it right on the money. I am pretty sure that it's takes a 1.5mm allen wrench. Another thing to remember is that the ground balance knob has two set screws if you ever decide to take it off to place a o-ring under it, some of us do that to put a bit of resistance on the knob so it doesn't accidently moved. Enjoy that Tejon, I call it the do everything detector, its a fun detector to use. Steve.
 
I adjust all of my Tesoro detectors to discriminate out nickels when the dial pointer is dead on the five cent mark. It takes several tries to get it dead on, but it's worth it to me. Also don't be afraid to put some 'tic' marks with a permanent extra fine magic marker on the face plate to precisely mark where certain targets discriminate out. A Q-Tip and a little rubbing alcohol will remove them.

tabman
 
Hi Mark, great advice from all the guys! I would also suggest that however you do your "set up"calibration for nickles, do it with as many different old/new/ different type nickles as you can. Best my memory serves me, there is a pretty good range of difference between some nickles (V, in particular I think) and you don't want to be knocking them out to soon. Same goes for some of the earlier,smaller CW and Rev War buttons. You may want to allow yourself a wider range of allowance for this, or at least be well aware of it and maybe even mark your face plate for those differences. Tesoro Manual tells us that there will likely be some Disc.variance between most all their machines, which is normal. The nickle/button variances are likely caused by everything from metal-dirt- composition,size, time in ground , etc.This can make a big difference in your finds especially if you find yourself in some historic dirt. I "almost" missed a small beautiful CW Navy button because I had my disc set tio high, but thought to crank it down some.It paid off with a really Sweet button!. .HH, Charlie .
 
SkiWhiz said:
Hi Mark, on a number of Tesoro's that I have had the disc. setting on a nickel was alittle off. What I do is place a nickel on the ground and turn the disc. dial to where it either crackles or is just disc.d out then loosen the disc. knob and place it on the nickel mark on the faceplate and then tighten the knob. Might have to do it a couple times to get it right on the money. I am pretty sure that it's takes a 1.5mm allen wrench. Another thing to remember is that the ground balance knob has two set screws if you ever decide to take it off to place a o-ring under it, some of us do that to put a bit of resistance on the knob so it doesn't accidently moved. Enjoy that Tejon, I call it the do everything detector, its a fun detector to use. Steve.
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Well, how are you coming with that new converted XLT to Vaquero? LoL

Well, sounds like sometime this weekend I'll be calibrating the disc knob on my Tejon.

Mark
 
MarkCZ said:
SkiWhiz said:
Hi Mark, on a number of Tesoro's that I have had the disc. setting on a nickel was alittle off. What I do is place a nickel on the ground and turn the disc. dial to where it either crackles or is just disc.d out then loosen the disc. knob and place it on the nickel mark on the faceplate and then tighten the knob. Might have to do it a couple times to get it right on the money. I am pretty sure that it's takes a 1.5mm allen wrench. Another thing to remember is that the ground balance knob has two set screws if you ever decide to take it off to place a o-ring under it, some of us do that to put a bit of resistance on the knob so it doesn't accidently moved. Enjoy that Tejon, I call it the do everything detector, its a fun detector to use. Steve.
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Well, how are you coming with that new converted XLT to Vaquero? LoL

Well, sounds like sometime this weekend I'll be calibrating the disc knob on my Tejon.

Mark
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That XLT I had was really nice one but I have alot more fun using Tesoro's, I haven't got very much time on the Vaquero yet the weather just doesn't want to warm up but the little I have used it I really like it. I have had it on one short hunt and I found a bunch of clad an a 1942 wheat penny and a coin I have never found before a 1939 France 50 centimes coin. The one thoing that I found odd was I dug a huge nail (10" long and a bit bigger in diameter than a pencil), I was using disc. set on the "iron" mark on the faceplate and the nail was straight down in the ground as if someone pounded it in with a hammer. To soon to tell yet but maybe the Vaq. don't knock out iron as well as other Tesoro's.
 
Okay, I took a minute this morning to "reset" the discrimination control knob for better alignment for a nickel. I ended up with it set to when the blade on the knob just shows the cent sign to its left a 3" nickel just clicks, that put a solid hit on the same nickel with the pointer covering the 5, I did Disc two the same way.
So, just as I pass the cent symbol the nickel is leaving.
I think that will work for me.
And the knob shafts or round with no flats, which they don't need.

Mark
 
Which i can not for the life of me figure out.They need to step up there thinking on this low drag control stuff.On my Sand Shark there are high drag controls that stay were you put them.I know why?$.And if they used the high drag potentiomitors,then they would have flat shafts.Tells us how the Tejon does in you coin garden?I hope that garden sprouts soon!You've have had it planted awhile now and it ain't done nothing! :rofl:
 
I've adjusted the disc knob on several of my detectors to better match the marks. Never a problem. I have 2 Silver Sabre
 
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