I recently scored what might be the first second-hand ATX. Nice machine, but the first owner took it to the beach - fresh water - licked it to make sure - no salt, but fine white sand was much in evidence. So me and my new baby had a nice, hot, long shower, kinky perhaps, but we both felt much better afterwards!
OK - enough weirdness. So far my impressions are, smaller than I expected, but heavy as lead.
Now it will have to fight for a place in my detector harem. TDI, Minelab SD-2100 and the ATX. Like Thunderdome (more or less). Three detectors in and maybe less than three out.
What do I want? Water hunting (oops, that introduced a fourth candidate, my Whites DF PI) and gold nuggets small to large. The ATX's reputation is pretty small to OK large at OK depth, but will it do as deep in bad ground as the SD-2100? And what about the TDI? In mild ground (or at the beach) can the ATX beat out the TDI when I switch off the GB on the TDI.
Oh well, I will have fun forming my opinions.
OK - enough weirdness. So far my impressions are, smaller than I expected, but heavy as lead.
Now it will have to fight for a place in my detector harem. TDI, Minelab SD-2100 and the ATX. Like Thunderdome (more or less). Three detectors in and maybe less than three out.
What do I want? Water hunting (oops, that introduced a fourth candidate, my Whites DF PI) and gold nuggets small to large. The ATX's reputation is pretty small to OK large at OK depth, but will it do as deep in bad ground as the SD-2100? And what about the TDI? In mild ground (or at the beach) can the ATX beat out the TDI when I switch off the GB on the TDI.
Oh well, I will have fun forming my opinions.
