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    Gray Ghost for Blue Excal 800

    Hello to all I have my blue 800 that has the ikelite connector for the headphones, but the old ones died, and I want to buy a pair of gray ghost. I cannot find them with the mod already done, but I have all the ikelite parts and my guess is that its not hard to change from A conector to the...
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    Headphones Europe Problem

    Hello I have a problem with my headphones on my Blue 800. It has the ikelite connector, but need to change the old stock headphones. I was thinking about the Gray Ghost, but they seem to come without the connector. Is it easy to do at home? im not very proficient with my electronics. I also...
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    Summer totals with Excal Blue 800 -2019

    Hi all: I hope you had some great hunting this summer. I could only hunt 5 mornings for about 3 hours each day. I was pretty happy with my totals! 1 gold chain 18k 1 pendant 18k 1 smaller pendant 18k with ice chips 1 gold earring 1 gold ring 9 k 7 silver rings 1 silver bracelet 5 silver pandora...
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    Excal Battery bubbling

    Hi to all! I hope you had a great summer. I have a situation with one of my pods, its an old blue, with a Maxxpack battery, I did some maintenance on it, with silicone spray for the o ring and checking everything was snug. Also put some conductive greasy on the connectors. Went hunting, and...
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    Summer totals with Excal Blue 800

    Hunted 14 times, for about 2:30 hours each hunt. Only water hunting on beaches, most sand, a couple with rocks. 7 gold rings, one with nice ice, all but one are 18 carat. 10 silver rings, 11 silver earrings, one silver chain. 10 stainless or junk about €220 I was quite happy!! good hunting to...
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    Green stuff on battery conectors

    Hi All! I have a battery pack on my excals, its the new model excal II, and it works just fine, no problems. however everytime I come out from a water hunt (wading) it has green stuff on the connectors, on the holes where the prongs go. is it a serious problem? Solution? thanks a million
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    Does the Scoop increase yield??

    Hi all!! I have been researching the scoop market, and thinking about getting one for my hunting. I do only water hunting, snorkeling up to over the head, and have been doing fanning all the time. But there is always does targets that I can't get because they are too deep for fanning, and the...
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    Cleaning old silver rings

    I´m having trouble cleaning some of the rings I found, only the very old ones that came up with quite a crusty cover. Once I have removed the crust, the ring its quite blackish, and then I have put them through a light electrolysis 830secs to 1 min), and even then some are still black, other are...
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    Advice on Blue Excal Storage

    Due to a huge amount of work, I will not be able to use my blue excals until next year. Could you guys please give me some advice on how to properly clean, and get rid of the salt and sand after the summer excursions. Also if there is any spraying or products that I should use to take good care...
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    My summer totals

    It was a great summer, 14 outings of about 3 to 4 hours, always early morning. I love my excals, the blues 800 and 1000. This is my biggest year, 206€, 1st platinum ring, gold and silver more than any other time before... its going to be hard to beat. On the picture its all the jewelry, the...
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    What to do with stainless, tungsten rings?

    Just that, what do you guys do with all those stainless steel and tungsten rings? Mine are just taking up space
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    Snorkel hunting SCOOP or NO SCOOP?

    I have been hunting over the last years without a scoop, and lately I've been wondering if the recovery of targets would be faster using a one. I do the hand or foot fan movement to uncover the target, but some of the really deep ones I can't get them out. Just today I battled with one that end...
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    Excel Battery problem

    I have tried three charged batteries on the blue excal 1000, one of them with brand new alkaline batteries, and the machine only makes noise when I wiggle the part of the wire right next to the battery connector... Don't know what to do... Any help or advise will be welcome Thanks a lot
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    When is the F80 coming out?

    I'm holding dearly for my F75, which I love to death, and trying not to buy the DEUS, because I hope in the near future (hopefully very near), I will be able to buy the new fisher metal detector. When are the fisher Lab guys going to release the new one??????
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    What to keep Excal I 1000 or 800

    Hi all I have the chance of choosing to keep one of the minelabs, but I would like to have opinions from the masters here on this forum I have been Huntign with the 800 for two years, and I like it. The beaches I hunt have some trash, but not overwhelming, I have been hunting this year with the...
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    Excal I 800 serious problems! HELP!!

    I bought a used excal last year, and in last summer it really gave me great results, even on tiny gold. This year I had to buy a new battery, got it wet the next day and it worked great, getting a little gold again, and all the rest of a good hunt. This morning going early to the beach I...
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    Excal strange behavior in the water

    I have used my "used" excal 800 on the beach with no problems, and worked great, but then I went into the water, with the same exact setting and it started going crazy, giving a lot of tones all the time, turned down the sens, even put it on auto, and still the same results. Then I swicht to...
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    Headphone mod for blue excalibur koss

    Does any of he experts here know if the mod for the excal blue headphones can be done as well with the peltor 105's? I just bought an excal 800 used, and the koss look a little ragged, I would like to improve them by doing the OBM mod that's on YouTube Thanks for the info and any input would...
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    Replacing Excalibur 800 twist locks

    Does anybody had to substitute the twist locks on a stock shaft for the Excalibur? Mine is gone, bought some from plugger, and I don't know if anybody could tell me how to do it. Thanks a lot
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    US silver coins value

    I got this from my grandfather years ago, I just found it. What would be the value of those coins today? Thanks and cheers
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