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The 7000 coil (soon to be coils!) and now the 6000 coils pushed the X-search range development back a bit.

Yep just waddling around the house now and feel pretty silly. But after a couple weeks with the 7000 using only the guide arm, I can tell I'm gonna wear out my shoulder and mess up my spinal alignment with how much I detect. Gonna get a hip stick instead.

I figured it out immediately after posting - you can just unscrew the struts.

Previous owner assembled the harness wrong, on one side the waist strut is in the shoulder and vice versa. The struts are clicked into place in the harness and I've given them a solid pull but they haven't come out, I'm reluctant to pull harder in case I break some the mechanism inside the...

Chet, do you have any resources for the characteristics of basket weave coils? I've often wondering about different windings like this. Thanks.

Wow. You should start a new show, Pimp My Detector! That is the most fly detector I've ever seen by a long shot.

That's very strange as comparably sized NF Evo and Coiltek Elite coils pinpoint the same - in a couple inches from the edge, where the receive winding is. The 15" evo and 14" elite would be nearly impossible to tell apart in a blind test, like if they were in the same housing. Have plenty...

Thanks looks like Phil changed the name of the shop

Oz Wash Sluices (independent prospecting shop in Bendigo) has removed their Facebook page, anybody know if they are still in business? I saw Phil, who recently acquired the business from Greckie, at the Bendigo gold expo with sluices. Hopefully they are still operating, nice to have another shop...

Interesting choice to make only coils smaller than the ML ones. No big honkin mono or DD. Maybe NF will make larger coils. Or maybe with the 6000 there’s no benefit going bigger than 17x13? Have a hard time believing that

Sun Yee (also known as Atem Power) produces pretty cheap panels. I had a blanket from them and while it worked, it did not produce the stated power and was constructed pretty crappily. They do have good customer service insofar as they will replace their products bo questions asked - they don’t...

Yeah those super cheap high-power solar panels are indeed too good to be true. I can vouch for these panels: https://www.solar4rvs.com.au/solar-panels/exotronic/ Exotronic is a brand under the solar4rvs company, which is a small Australian business with solid ethics. Got 2x160W panels for our...

I have a GPSMap 66i and love it. It's not fun to type on due to the lack of a touch screen or QWERTY-style keyboard, but I've never had issues with satellite connection or messaging. It has the superior Garmin software (instead of the whatever software inReach initially used before being bought...

Maybe this is part of the problem… course it’s not easy to find non-flogged-out-joints but having a go outside the usual areas can be very rewarding How often do you go out an detect? You said 3 years but if you only spend a few hours every month you might only have the same amount of...