Hi Tinfoil.
I'm still a worker bee wishing I had a couple of clones. Short staffed at work, short staffed at home, short staffed at church. Wore out right now both emotionally and physically. Just too much going on with work and family and I haven't gotten more than two hours sleep at one time since last Wednesday due to wife's health. Waiting on another very close family member to breath the last breath so I can plan around the funeral. I come on the forums right now more for distraction than anything else.
Unfortuantly I sold my new toned Golden to fund something else I thought I had to have, thinking that I could buy another old toned Golden and get it upgraded. Only when I did buy the old tone Golden and called Tesoro to send it in and get it updated, Rusty told me they could no longer do the upgrades and tried to sell me something else. Pretty disappointing. What I really want right now is a Delta Cleansweep coil to use on a Lobo Super Trac. What would be even better is if I could find two of them. I could send one to Harold and get it modded for a G2+. ( I like the pistol grip) I think Tesoro lost their drawings for that too. Pretty disappointed in Tesoro.
I sold my V3i for a family emergency and then bought a V3 with the plan to upgrade. But haven't upgraded it to an V3i model yet. I kind of like it better than the V3i. Faster responding to the ground, less lock ups while adjusting things. I think all in all I feel much more comfortable with the V3 than the V3i.
I really like my F75 DST model. Couldn't use one in many areas before but now I can. I still have areas where I can't use it due to EMI but thats ok as there are more where I can use it now than can't use it. I really like how the FA mode just seemingly magically makes good targets appear. The F75 5x10 DD is made
just for the F75 and you can tell. Its a great coil.
Once things settle down I'm going to reach out to Jorge and see if we can't fix the Omega 8500. There is a ton of potential in that detector that somehow got jammed up. I think we can fix it if we just let 7.8 kHz behave like 7.8 kHz instead of trying to fit it into a 5 kHz pattern. Its easier to live with when you put a 8" concentric on it. Was going to sell it and walk away until I decided it was a worthwhile rescue. Of course they may have dumped it already. I dunno.
You old folks take care until I can get old too.

Mike