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Anyone Ever Take Out One Of Your Antique Machines For A Nostalgic Hunt? :detecting:

John-Edmonton

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Used the Garrett Master Hunter CX PLUS for my last couple of snow hill hunts. I made a camo cover for it years ago to help keep the batteries warm. It was a great machine during it's time...........came out at about 1990. What's really cool about it, is that it is both digital and analog. The meter as shown above is digital ( no needle like previous CX Models ) and the electronics are analog. If you have ever used an older machine with analog audio, you will remember it's great abilities to help separate junk from good targets. You can adjust both ferrous and non-ferrous discrimination with individual knobs. It has a true all metal mode like the AT MAX and AT Gold and also a threshold adjustment. It uses audio modulation for depth......deeper targets are quieter then surface.

I hunted in true all metal mode in the snow. It still gives you a probable target in this mode.The ID depth is very accurate. The target ID is just about the same as on other machines due to our crappy nickel plated steel clad. The depth is limited.....not as good as today's machines. The machine is balanced, and can actually be balanced on two fingers and coil sweeps can be done using your wrist action instead of your shoulder. Maybe a good ergonomic solution for someone with a rotator cuff injury.

I hunted for a little over 2 hours on a few hills and did manage some goodies as shown below......Please snow, go away!:rant:
 
John, the Master Hunter CX Plus was a good machine. I sold mine about a year and a half ago to one of my hunting buddy's friends. This was a newer updated version of the Garret Deep seeker. I bought the Deep seeker back in about 1981 and it was a great relic hunter.
 
but not for nostalgia. In places it still brings excellent results. I think its the best TID analog high trash detector ever made. It has auto switching 2 & 1-filter operation
with single sweep i.d., a lock that does not jump, a separate tone for each number, fast recovery, and a variable notch. It can be used silent or with a tone. (even had a built in charging system)
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Something about that army tank construction and about 24 (it felt that heavy) :lol: 9 volt batteries, power supply that made you feel
it was up to any task. And no one wrote and explained better than Charles Garrett. (nicest guy you would ever meet too)
 
Still take my old 'Arado 120b' machines out for swing every so often,very primitive design wise but still can keep up with some of the more modern machines,wont ever part with mine as they are part of my detecting life,but they had been one of the top machines many years ago.
 
vlad said:
but not for nostalgia. In places it still brings excellent results. I think its the best TID analog high trash detector ever made. It has auto switching 2 & 1-filter operation
with single sweep i.d., a lock that does not jump, a separate tone for each number, fast recovery, and a variable notch. It can be used silent or with a tone. (even had a built in charging system)
https://static.secure.website/wscfus/6268851/uploads/pg/teknetics_mark1a.jpg
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Man what a bit of nostalgia ! Yes, a ground-breaking machine for 1985 or ' 86-ish, when it came out. And still competitive to this day. But the machine sometimes got flaky in mineralized soils (for example, it wained on wet salt beaches, esp. when it became cinnamon colored minerals). It's also not as deep as today's power-houses.

But it had great sound, great versatility, etc...
 
vlad said:
For manhole covers? :detecting:
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I actually found two chains wrapped in moss at a local lake with this detector before Corp of Engineers closed metal detecting to the swimming areas. I also cleaned out some screwcaps with broken glass still intact- but what do they care? Many don't realize these bfo's would signal on fine gold chains, but NOT on paper clips, small nails, bobby pins!
 
Garrett BFO Discriminator, circa 1973. I bought it in '75. Had a set disc point just below the nickel range. Came equipped with stock 5 inch "coin-shooter" coil. Depth was around 3 inches on coins.
 
The oldest I have, found my first silvers with one of these... was my first detector. Still take it out a couple of times a year... I recall saving for it, that was a lot of money, to me, back then
 
mrwilburino said:
.... Depth was around 3 inches on coins.
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Woohoo, that'll give my Explorer II a run for its money !! :punch:

I started in about '75 or '76 or so. I know Garret actually made some BFO's even into the late 1970s. But they didn't sell much (at least not in my area). Because I never saw any. Only saw the VLF/TR's. I do recall seeing 2 BFO's still in action at that time. One was a Whites BFO that a dealer here had taken in as a trade. So I'm guessing that was a mid 1960s machine. I remember him propping it up on the counter and showing me the "put put put" sound. The other BFO I recall was some off-brand that I don't recall. It actually worked fairly decently.

But you're right, depth was poor. Esp. the ones that tried to incorporate disc on a BFO, you could bet the disc. would lower the disc. even more.
 
Ratas de la Jungla said:
The oldest I have, found my first silvers with one of these... was my first detector. Still take it out a couple of times a year... I recall saving for it, that was a lot of money, to me, back then
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Oh, man! I won two detectors with this machine in the FIRST International Treasure hunt. I would hold the push button down while scanning to keep the tuning near max. The first day I qualified easily for the second day's hunt. Several of us went hunting around the area after the first day's hunt and I was in Pulltab setting. On the second day I forgot to take it out of pulltab disc and didn't discover it till near the end of the hunt and I was sick! There was a trimmer inside and I adjusted it to the point where tabs would just "tic"-which also lowered the bottlecap setting. Found coins near tabs! Thanks for the memory!
 
Tom_in_CA said:
.... Depth was around 3 inches on coins.

Woohoo, that'll give my Explorer II a run for its money !! :punch:

I started in about '75 or '76 or so. I know Garret actually made some BFO's even into the late 1970s. But they didn't sell much (at least not in my area). Because I never saw any. Only saw the VLF/TR's. I do recall seeing 2 BFO's still in action at that time. One was a Whites BFO that a dealer here had taken in as a trade. So I'm guessing that was a mid 1960s machine. I remember him propping it up on the counter and showing me the "put put put" sound. The other BFO I recall was some off-brand that I don't recall. It actually worked fairly decently.

But you're right, depth was poor. Esp. the ones that tried to incorporate disc on a BFO, you could bet the disc. would lower the disc. even more.
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I was the only one in my area with a green machine back then. Everyone else had a big, blue-box Coinmaster. They were still swinging all-metal (no-disc) TR's going in to the mid-1970's. Then everything changed almost overnight. Talk about obsolete!
 
mrwilburino said:
....... Then everything changed almost overnight. Talk about obsolete!
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Yup. I kind of remember that. I was starting just during the transition. When I started, we saw machines like the 77b, 66TR, etc... Which actually could pass iron. But aside than that, utterly no form of discrimination. But we heard of "discriminators". Yet were reluctant to try them. Because ... supposedly ... "you might miss rings". So we *bristled* at the thought of discrimination.

But within a year or two , you were at utter dinosaur if you didn't have one. Doh!

Also: go figure, by 1980, silver was at 15x face. So a silver dime, for example, was worth $1.50. And at a time when minimum wage for a high-schooler was something like $3.70 p/h, then ..... it almost made more sense to go detecting, than to work. Silly by today's standards, but ... worth it . We cranked the disc. knobs and farmed the schools and parks for silver. Kiss gold rings goodbye. If we wanted gold rings, we merely waited for beach storms and hit the beach. Ahhh, those were the days.

However, as virgin as things were then, and as groundbreaking as the technology leaps were in that 10-ish year period, yet I have to say: I find older coins today. Back then, all the silver we were bringing in, tended to be mercs, roosies, and washingtons. Didn't graduate up to hardcore stage stops, oldtown demolitions, etc.... till later.
 
It reached around $46 per ounce in the 89's from the Hunt Bros. manipulation. (What was the silver value to get 15x face for a 90% dime?)
AH made the Pro in '74 that disced tabs, and the Super Pro that disced screwcaps late 75, early '76. (But Technos made the PRG in '72 with TID,)
 
John-Edmonton said:
http://u.cubeupload.com/johnedmonton/cx1.jpg

Used the Garrett Master Hunter CX PLUS for my last couple of snow hill hunts. I made a camo cover for it years ago to help keep the batteries warm. It was a great machine during it's time...........came out at about 1990. What's really cool about it, is that it is both digital and analog. The meter as shown above is digital ( no needle like previous CX Models ) and the electronics are analog. If you have ever used an older machine with analog audio, you will remember it's great abilities to help separate junk from good targets. You can adjust both ferrous and non-ferrous discrimination with individual knobs. It has a true all metal mode like the AT MAX and AT Gold and also a threshold adjustment. It uses audio modulation for depth......deeper targets are quieter then surface.

I hunted in true all metal mode in the snow. It still gives you a probable target in this mode.The ID depth is very accurate. The target ID is just about the same as on other machines due to our crappy nickel plated steel clad. The depth is limited.....not as good as today's machines. The machine is balanced, and can actually be balanced on two fingers and coil sweeps can be done using your wrist action instead of your shoulder. Maybe a good ergonomic solution for someone with a rotator cuff injury.

I hunted for a little over 2 hours on a few hills and did manage some goodies as shown below......Please snow, go away!:rant:
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I used an ADS-7 for years, then went to the 1st Gen Grand Master.. I recently bought a 7X but haven't been able to physically use it yet.. Best of luck and HH
 
The Whites 6000D coinmaster was a great machine but it wore out a log time ago. Found as much CW relics and silver as I have with the best new machines but then stuff was easier to find in the 80s when I started which is why the best new machines are probably better for today.
 
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