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In excellent condition. A well looked after ground balancing PI machine for beach combing and nugget prospecting. Its an extremely lightweight machine you can swing all day. Does not exhibit the hiccup of early models. I'm advertising here for $100 less than I am on Gumtree. Comes with: White's...

Did this collation ever come to pass? It's a shame Sunriseboy was only a guest on the site and probably can't be contacted. I think it would be great to have all of Reg's various info compiled and maybe stickied on this subforum. If somebody has a copy, I'd be happy to put any finishing touches...

"Young Hugh saw some things up there that such young eyes should never have to witness. He hasn't spoken about it since."

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm going to do an 8x 18650 4s2p pack and belt mount it; heaps of juice and no weight on the arm. I buy my batteries from the ebay seller Supersports600 because he's well known for only selling genuine, quality batteries. I've never had an issue with one I got from him...

Holy Zombie Thread, Batman! I'll be heading down to Melbourne to visit friends in early January and was thinking it would be great to take my new detector out for a spin (I'm a noob; my first detector is in the mail). I thought I'd take my mate with me since he's never been camping before, and...

*glances at Hard Luck's location to see where they're finding the colour* I knew Werribee sounded familiar. The friends I'm visiting in January used to live in Altona. They're in the city now. Any chance you could point me at a broad location in Victoria so I can start narrowing down where I'd...

Hi all. Well, Last summer I tried panning for gold, did a dozen trips or so, and thoroughly got bitten by the gold bug. Now I've decided I want to try detecting. I did my research, and then more research, and asked questions. I found it interesting that on this site whenever I mentioned an...

Genuinely, thank you everybody for the advice and help in this thread and on the forum. I've now purchased the White's SPP PI machine that was being sold on the classifieds here. Shipping on the 2200D was going to push it out of my price range, and I can't quite put my finger on it, but through...

Cheers, I'll have a look at that pinpointer mod. Is this SD2200D for $1,000 the bargain I think it is?

Thanks again Les, that's a really generous offer and I may well take you up on it. Or if I end up choosing a device based purely on research and recommendations, I'd sure be keen to go out with an old hand and learn the ropes. Let's play the money game! What if I could stretch my budget to...

Now you tell me? And panning means shovelling bucket loads of mud with water in your boots and a yabbie hanging off your bum. I'm beginning to think there's no cheap, easy way of recovering large quantities of gold :/ Google Earth Pro with the relevant layers has been my favourite "research"...

Oh god! I was being tongue in cheek! I was absolutely asking for advice, and was feeling humbled by how much helpful friendly information people were offering. I'd expect people would be sick of the "need a detector, what should I get?" questions, and frankly most corners of the internet aren't...

What are you people, just hovering around on the site waiting for a newbie to ask for assistance so you can bombard them with friendly, helpful information? What sort of forum is this??? (Edit: sarcasm!) I'll probably jump on the Gold Monster then (unless something better jumps at me in the...

Hi all. I'm sure you're all sick to death of these threads, and I've read through a lot of them and seen nothing but helpful replies so I figured I'd try my luck. Please help me with the agonies of choosing where to drop a grand! Me: I've done about fifteen panning/sluicing trips. Got the bug...