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    Results Of Using Vinegar And Salt On Dug Nickels

    First let me say DO NOT do this to valuable coins, this is for common date coins. A lot of people know about using vinegar and salt and has been around for years. I found out about this many years ago and works very well for removing the crud and the red color on dug nickels. It will usually...
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    Does Your Pro Pointer Do This

    This is the depth I'm getting with the first unit I bought just last month. 1c - 1 9/16" 5c - 1 7/8" 10c - 1 1/4" 25c - 1 9/16" 50c - 1 13/16" 1.00 - 1 7/8" I also have read the reviews about people getting from 1 1/2" to 2"+ on a dime but this is the results I'm getting on a newer...
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    Tesoro 5.75" Widescan Coil For Cibola, Vaquero, Tejon and Lobo SuperTRAQ

    I have for sale a slightly used Tesoro 5.75" Widescan coil. This coil was purchased on Oct. 19, 2009 new. I bought both the 5.75" Concentric and Widescan coils to test in my soil and and for testing in heavy iron invested sites and found that in my mild soil there wasn't any or very little...
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    Coin Purse Found With Big Silver

    There is a house next door that is being repaired from a burst pipe and water damage. In the driveway is one of the big containers for the damaged wood, drywall, etc. Yesterday morning around 6AM as I was leaving to go MD, I noticed a couple of people dumping some things by the container...
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    Looking For Compass Relic & Coin or GoldScanner Pro

    Looking for a unit made before the plant fire and one that has had the depth modification.
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    Ace 250 Deluxe Sports Pack For Sale

    I have For Sale an Ace 250 Deluxe Sports Pack, this Pack has the 9x12 coil. This was purchased March 12, 2009 and the last time it was used was mid May 2009. I purchased a White's 6000 Pro XL from Monte in May of this year and don't have a need for the 250 anymore. Price is $200 which...
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    This is kinda strange

    Now we know why we are finding very shallow and older coins at a school site. I had ask the owner if the soil had ever been disturbed and he told me that it hadn't. Today I again ask if anything has ever been done at the school site and he told me besides grading the top 3 to 4 inches of soil...
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    This is kinda strange

    Looking at a school site that was started in 1914 and burned in 1965. Have hunted only 3 times and coins are far and few between. First hunt found a movie token at 3" and a 14K gold plated ring at 2". Second hunt yielded a wheat back that had been shot with a .22 and the bullet is still stuck...
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    Anyone Experience This With The ACE 250

    A friend had his lawn scraped of black soil and replaced with sandy loam 8" deep by the time it was rolled and compressed. He ask if I would check it out and remove all metal found with a metal detector. There wasn't really that much metal and the usual, iron and tabs. One spot, the 250 was...
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    Gold Coin Found With Ace 250

    I was given permission to look around an old house that was built in the 1880's. When I arrived I could tell someone had beat me looking, because of the plugs in the soil. Looked anyway but didn't find anything buy a few brass items. Just before I was ready to leave, thought I would look...
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    NiMH Battery Question

    I read on line today about testing of NiMH batteries. The article was about 5 years old or so. Can't find the article again, but according to the tester when used with a couple of different brands of detectors, that a clad dime was detected about 1" deeper and slightly deeper with a silver...
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    Ground balance algorithm?

    Wouldn't there be an advantage overall using all 3 frequencies instead of just 1?
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    Test Garden WARNING!!

    People, make sure if you let someone use your test garden to check for depth that they are just to test and NOT FOR DIGGING UP THE COINS!!!!! I let this clown use my garden while I was busy doing something else and when I came out to see his results he had dug up my silver dimes that I had...
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    Test Garden WARNING!!

    People, make sure if you let someone use your test garden to check for depth that they are just to test and NOT FOR DIGGING UP THE COINS!!!!! I let this clown use my garden while I was busy doing something else and when I came out to see his results he had dug up my silver dimes that I had...
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    Recovery Speed on E-Trac

    How does the recovery speed of the E-Trac compare to other detectors? It appears that several of the Minelab detectors have a very slow recovery rate and was just wondering about the E-Trac.
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    Garrett's First BFO Discriminator Detector

    I have a Garrett BFO detector that I bought in, I believe, 1974. It was the first discriminator that Garrett came out with. I haven't used it in about 5 years and when I put in new batteries it doesn't work any more. It hadn't been stored with any batteries in it. I know this is an out dated...
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