Completed my first full day (~6hours) of water/beach hunting with the repaired ATX. The machine ran great.
We went to a beach that has mod/high to high ground mineralization (layers of black sand). The ATX ran smooth and we could even turn the sens. up. I was running 11-12 and my buddy had his at 13. We really didn't need to go any higher than 10 I would say cause we were hitting pull tabs at 15". I stepped into one hole and measured it latter. This was a softer hit but repeatable. I was getting signals off my scoop if it was within 3' of the coil and the eyelets on my wading boots would sound off within about 1.5 ft. so I had to extend the shaft a little and drag the scoop behind. With Frequency scanning we could run within about 25' of each other.
To keep sand out of the cam locks I wrapped them with cut pieces of plastic shopping bags and zip tied them in place. This worked great and no grit got into the cam locks. I am looking for some rubber sheeting material that I think would grip tighter but haven't found it yet. The zip ties were a little difficult to remove as they sinched down tight and I had a hard time getting the clippers onto them. maybe bigger clippers or not so tight.
We dug tons of holes as can be seen from the picture. I usually hunt this area with a VLF and am able to screen the bobby pins, twist ties and bottle caps to some extent so this was a lot of digging I wouldn't usually do. However, the ATX is definitely going deeper.
Got one Titanium ring and a few earrings and a pen knife. The ring was a shallow dry sand find and I think an Ace 250 would have found it.
We went to a beach that has mod/high to high ground mineralization (layers of black sand). The ATX ran smooth and we could even turn the sens. up. I was running 11-12 and my buddy had his at 13. We really didn't need to go any higher than 10 I would say cause we were hitting pull tabs at 15". I stepped into one hole and measured it latter. This was a softer hit but repeatable. I was getting signals off my scoop if it was within 3' of the coil and the eyelets on my wading boots would sound off within about 1.5 ft. so I had to extend the shaft a little and drag the scoop behind. With Frequency scanning we could run within about 25' of each other.
To keep sand out of the cam locks I wrapped them with cut pieces of plastic shopping bags and zip tied them in place. This worked great and no grit got into the cam locks. I am looking for some rubber sheeting material that I think would grip tighter but haven't found it yet. The zip ties were a little difficult to remove as they sinched down tight and I had a hard time getting the clippers onto them. maybe bigger clippers or not so tight.
We dug tons of holes as can be seen from the picture. I usually hunt this area with a VLF and am able to screen the bobby pins, twist ties and bottle caps to some extent so this was a lot of digging I wouldn't usually do. However, the ATX is definitely going deeper.
Got one Titanium ring and a few earrings and a pen knife. The ring was a shallow dry sand find and I think an Ace 250 would have found it.
