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    Where can I get good quality CTX connectors?

    I'd like to buy some CTX connectors - doing a little experimenting here in the basement... What are they called and where can I get them? Stainless steel ones if possible! Thanks. Like these: http://www.findmall.com/file.php?86,file=340046
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    Your experiences with wet salt sand, back sand, both?

    I will be heading to South Africa shortly for my annual trip of beach and water hunting, and I am debating on whether to bring my CTX this year, with perhaps a 17" oil to get some extra depth. I know some of you guys use the CTX in salt water and wet salt sand so I am wondering if you could give...
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    My1884 wedding band find!

    The 1884 wedding band I found in the lake last month made it to the Minelab "success stories" page! This wonderful 18k carved rose gold band engraved "Annie from Harry 1884." Two of Toronto's early residents. Hallmarked RW&CO 18K. Did a lot of research and found their marriage certificate...
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    Nice gold ring from the water in an iron infested spot with my CTX!

    I pulled a nice gold ring yesterday out of a spot in the lake totally infested with iron nails. None of my other detectors work in this area because there is way too much iron, this is the reason I bought my CTX. I was using a combined program, and my 6" coil. 14grams 14k yellow gold:
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    What's going on with my sensitivity?

    I have been hunting a lake site that is heavily infested with iron nails, mostly in auto, auto +1, auto +2. I have been noticing that the sensitivity has been dropping to 9 (left #) | 5 (green #) at times and the left # rarely goes above 12. Why is that? I am not in saltwater or anything... My...
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    How much depth are you getting with the 6" coil?

    I have an iron nail filled trashy area that is under 5 feet of lake and it would be ideal for the 6" coil, but every time I use it I don't seem to get depths beyond 4" (as shown on the display). Most of the good targets in this area I have found with the standard coil at over 6 inches deep but...
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    What is the accuracy like on the GPS?

    I am marking an underwater site out with Waypoints. I wonder how accurate the GPS is on the CTX... 1 meter? 5 meters? 10 meters? Doesn't the US military/ US government have some kind of throttle on how accurate GPS can be for public purposes? Or does the CTX use European positioning satellites...
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    Having a hard time pinpointing certain Canadian clad

    I have noticed a particular behavior with the CTX and Canadian clad that is really frustrating. And I know, there are other detectors better suited for clad, but the CTX is all I have at the moment :) Anyway, while hunting dry sand on a popular beach with the CTX using wide open screens and...
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    Can your CTX standard coil detect a lead airgun pellet? Mine can't

    So I had some friends wanting to know how metal detectors work and showed them how my CTX picked up various metal objects by laying them on the surface of the ground. Then one of them put down a lead pellet from an airgun and my CTX could not pick it up at all. Nothing. Is this normal? Or do I...
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    When do I use Ferrous Coin separation?

    And how is it different from the High Trash separation?
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    What is the higest CO number for gold?

    I am setting up a combined mode I am calling '3 tone ferrous' with a low tone for iron, a high tone for silver and copper, and a mid tone for gold. What is the highest CO value you guys have ever had gold come in at? I am trying to figure out a good place to end that bin. Thanks,
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    Does anyone make control box covers for the CTX?

    I have an Etrac and an old M6 and bought full control box covers for them that are made of some kind of camo ballistic nylon. Keeps the hardware from getting dinged. Anyone know a sourche of a full control box covers for the CTX?
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    When do I use ferrous-coin separation?

    I have an underwater site (fresh water) with a lot of old iron nails in it, and some modern nails, dispersed very close together. In this matrix are the occasional older coin and potentially some gold and siver rings. I will be using mostly wide open screens with TTF or combined audio as this...
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    Problems importing and exporting with Xchange2

    Hey! I tried to import some mlfs using gatekeepers instructions for xchange2: "If there are any programs in the FILE folder (in the Collections on the far left) drag them to RECYCLE. When the FILE folder is clear, click on the Import a Minelab File tab above the word Map, near the top center of...
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    I just picked up my CTX today! What is combined?

    Coming from an Etrac, and having read the manual a bunch of times, I think I have a handle on it for my first hunt tomorrow. I hear everyone talking about 'combined' and see one line about it in the manual on how to select it. What is it? How do I use combined? I have this brutal site that is...
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    Have they resolved the low volume issues with the waterproof headphones available for the CTX3030?

    I am seeing a lot of historical threads on here and elsewhere about the extremely low volume put out by the KOSS and Gray Ghost waterproof headphone models for the CTX3030. Has this issue been resolved?
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    How do you adjust sensitivity while in Quickmask?

    I have just discovered the power of hunting in Quickmask (with everything blacked out below 17), but see no way to change the sensitivity while in Quickmask.. What happens to the sensitivity when you go into QM? Does it keep the settings you were using previously in the smartfind screen? Or does...
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    Excal II 1000 coil bolts

    I want to order some spares. I order the 2" long ones, right?
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    Making a hip mount. how far are the holes apart?

    I am trying to drill through aluminium tubing with a hand drill, but my holes are not straight or I am measuring them wrong or something... What distance are these holes apart? I will email a guy at a local metal shop and get him to drill a piece of tube with his drill press.
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    Can I use White's shaft parts with an Excalibur?

    I have a straight rod (Anderson travel shaft ) for a Dual Field somewhere here, and I am wondering if the Excalibur bottom shaft fits in White's components... It might make for a nice straight shaft if I chest mount the Excal...
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