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  1. Ben78

    Cheap metal detectors

    GC1038 is a good machine for under a hundred. Once you get over a hundred go for a name brand.
  2. Ben78

    Long lost tailings dump found.

    Jaw feeding a flail (or ball mill) feeding a wash plant. Kawman, plenty of reasons to walk away from good ore - one is that it was costing more than 5oz/ton for processing. Could have been stockpiling waiting for an event that never happened and the company went bust. Could have been amateurs...
  3. Ben78

    Nice rock crusher kit

    If anyone wants pieces of Bisalloy wear plate cut for jaws send me a PM and I'll see what we have at work and work a deal out. (It's the same stuff that goes on earthmoving buckets, chutes etc)
  4. Ben78

    Potentially dodgy Gumtree bargains (Teknetics T2 & Garrett ProPointer)

    That Teknetics seems pretty dodgy to me... The seller has multiple items listed and they are under 4 different names and 3 different phone numbers. Of note is that Clare/Auburn is very close to the town that the counterfeit gold bug I bought came from.... Buyer beware on this crew!
  5. Ben78

    NSW Highbanking - what is the current state of play?

    To be fair it is widely signposted at Nundle that pumps are not welcome...
  6. Ben78

    Gumtree Scams- **Beware**

    If you have the bsb then contact the security department of that particular bank and inform them that the account is being used for fraudulent purposes. They'll look into it too. Don't just trust the person at the counter of the branch to be interested in helping....
  7. Ben78

    minelab SE Pro vs E-trac

    It is and it isn't, depends what you are looking for though. If you are looking for coins then the Conductivity is the more important reading. An item might read low conductivity but also low iron - dig it up because it could be a very deep threepence! The iron numbers don't read out nearly like...
  8. Ben78

    older analogue detectors

    I agree, have you tried using a Fisher Gold Bug, geez they make a racket - T2 and F75 too, hot as. I think using those helped me with the GPX though, being able to listen 'through' the noise to hear the target.... I think as good quality targets dry up though, the chirpy hot machines with super...
  9. Ben78

    Homemade metal detector

    Nothing more than the backyard. No beaches to speak of in my area!
  10. Ben78

    minelab SE Pro vs E-trac

    THey are different, whilst the Etrac is newer the iron and ground nulling software is different. Minelab actually went back to the Explorer software for nulling in the 3030 as it was better. Etrac has more precise Conductivity ID, but on the other hand the Fe ID is more precise on the explorer...
  11. Ben78

    Gumtree Scams- **Beware**

    That is a new rule from paypal about gumtree - probably because so many scams going on there. Never pay COD - I paid COD for a detector and got a fake. Because the post office wouldn't let me pay the COD using my credit card I also didn't get the counterfeit protection that my mastercard has...
  12. Ben78

    How to melt your own gold

    https://youtu.be/9kx_7Gv6jlk
  13. Ben78

    What's Your Favorite Tent?

    Wolfau - I've got a Black Wolf Turbo Lite, the 3 room one. It is fantastic. Extremely fast to put up. That's where it ends.... Extremely heavy and bulky I had to use a cup to remove the water after it rained (granted we had over 100mm overnight... ) Getting it back into the storage bag is...
  14. Ben78

    1.4 ct diamond found while crevicing (not by me, unfortunately)

    Oh yeah Google, the most used and forgotten about website there is....
  15. Ben78

    1.4 ct diamond found while crevicing (not by me, unfortunately)

    Whaddya reckon it would look like if just polished and set? Do natural diamonds look good in that manner?
  16. Ben78

    Boots for Prospecting, Hiking, Detecting information and questions

    Thats why I buy Oliver ATS - Absolutely zero metal used in construction.
  17. Ben78

    Fittings, Layflat, Suction hose for Highbankers..

    Go to an irrigation place and get camlock fittings, also knowledge and experience, unlike bunnings...
  18. Ben78

    First time running my highbanker

    I thought the water looked good, but i have little experience. What I'd be fixing is the lack of camlocks and the kinks in the hose, wasting fuel n flow there!
  19. Ben78

    stainless steel 44 gallon drums - what to do with them ?

    Smoker, Where'd ya get em????
  20. Ben78

    Black Sand

    If you have a look at this video - https://youtu.be/7NQ-5AO-vxU at the 1:15 mark I zoom in on the country rock. It's not Breccia I'm fairly certain its Pegmatite which according to wiki - There is definitely garnet in it, as well as tourmaline and the feldspar phenocrysts are huge. Cassiterite...
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