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Lithium

I have a lithium battery pack made up for my 3500. It was made up by Woody, it has come apart and is only showing 1 volt on multimeter. Yet showing fully charged on charger. The hot melt glue inside has let go.i have previously superglued it but now it has let go again. How safe is this could it...

Make sure you take the test nuggets with you. It pays to use them to set machine up to the area you are detecting. After you have been detecting for an hour or so use them again to make sure machine is still right for conditions. Good luck

Every machine has its drawbacks. I found gold with my exterra, learning to use any machine takes time. In mineralised ground I found I had to run machine on lower settings but I did have some success using the machine that way. I found it good on pipe clay heaps pulling out tiny gold in the low...

Test nuggets in tape easy to see

Put down a small test nugget. If you haven't got one use a tiny piece of lead. Bury it in ground a couple of inches, and see if you can hear it. Play with the threshold and set it at a position you can hear the target the clearest. If you set your threshold too low you wont hear it. Same if...

Sorry Baldy but got to disagree. I have been detecting over 20yrs I used to be a tester for prototype detector coils and accessories. Too higher sensitivity can give less depth in highly mineralised ground as the signal response overwhelms the machine with noise. You will definitely miss targets...

Most of the gold on the dryblow heaps is very shallow within a couple of cms of the surface. I tried raking down a few heaps and found nothing deeper than 10cms. These are ideal areas for vlf machines with tiny coils. I was using 6 inch coil on GB2. A friend came to me whilst I detected he also...

I went up there with sdc and had some success finding a few bits going over old dry blow heaps. Most pieces found were small and on the sdc were easily missed being such a weak signal. I decided give my old Fisher GoldBug 2 go.There was some noise mainly due to hot rocks but signals from small...

Generally gold will be a softer signal than a pellet. If you have sensitivity high it can be too noisy and you will miss soft gold signals. My advice is use a small test nugget. About 0.10 grams. Play with your sensitivity and threshold and set the machine up to hear the test nugget clearly in...

Next time she needs to go I will take her over towards the bbq area. You never know thinking about changing her name to SADIE. We are leaving tomorrow making our way home slowly. The nugget we found was where the caravans are parked along the road. Other side dunny northern end of park. On...

My dog is a Maltese cross poodle. I guess you could call her a multipoo.

Whilst walking my pooch around Tibooburra Caravan park my dog decided to do a poo. I got out my doggy bag to pick up the offending item. Looked on the ground and she had nearly pooped on top of s nice little half gram gold nugget. Good dog :) So I got an extra unexpected nugget. Woof

The Gb2 is doing well for sure I have been going over areas flogged with sdcs and pulling out gold missed, only down side is I am also picking out tiny shot as well. The small gold gives a nice zip zip signal. Slightly bigger gold will give a zap zap signal similar to shot. Bigger gold 0.1g...