Recent content by haveago

so you picked your spot.to grid or wander? i have try both ways and both have seem to get results ,i wandered through an area a thew times with no results but gridded the same area to find i missed gold by a metre ,i have gridded an area for a couple of days and found a donut .then gone for a...

coiltek replaced my coil so all is good thanks coiltek and minersden for back up of product

rang up coiltek after there holiday and the girl i spoke to said they have had some problem with there plastic ,and to send the coil in .took it to minersden and it was sent off for coiltek to check it out, all going as one would hope so far.

bought a coiltek 14 x9 coil start of oct 2017 noticed cracks forming at the ends of the mounting point were the meet the flat surface of coil have been using the coil in a way that was more mindful of not braking the handle of my gpx4500 only noticed them when I put my glasses onto look for a...

read some were that gpx detectors find gold with i think it said about 5% silver or copper in nuggets a gpxs would start to have trouble detecting them as the percentage increase to the point of no detection then as the nugget became closer to pure silver or copper detection started again, the...

any thoughts on why geovic pinks out

has any body compared the depth reached to size of target between coiltek 11" versus the coiltek elite 14"x 9" which has a slightly bigger surface area an the 11"

has any body compared the depth reached for size of target between coiltek elite ,14" versus coiltek elite 17" x 11" in the same ground .Both coils seem to have the same surface area

all good, rather read about it .you learn after a few years of doing things the hard way cheers guys

in the hand book for the gpx4500 it recommends not starting the engine of car while charging ,dose this mean you can not start engine and then plug in for charging as well?and charging can only be done with engine off

thanks bullwingle the clay i found was light grey will start taking more interest in the others

the small patch i been working is drying out , with gold the bits found so far in gravel about 100mm to 200mm deep, under 50mm to 100mm top soil . moving outside the window i found a rough 0.8g bit of gold in a lump of light clay (i see these are often called a kinder surprise on you tube)...

hi dose somebody have details of the old time windlasses eg ratios ,dimensions ,fixings used for construction, bracing ,how they were fixed in location ,how was the crank handle fitted ,what was used for bearings , did they use a bucket or a bag, where they braked ,how they unloaded, lifted men...

thanks guys for your input cheers haveago

has any body had a 6" or 8" coil on a gpx4500 and compared with the sdc2300 for(1) finding small gold(2) in red clay hot ground,(3) also using the 6"coiltek in water .cheers, thanks for any advice on this.