Got my Cibola in yesterday and decided to see how it would do last night before going to work. Had a problem with the headphone jack not working with my headphones, not happy about that but will deal with it for now. Wanted to see where I had to set the disc knob to pick up a nickle (on my DeLeon its just below the nickle mark) what I found was I have to set the dial just above the line below nickle or they get discriminated out. Checked to see where I lost the zinc pennies as there is no zinc setting and found that I'm almost to the max line before they quit sounding off. Had a V nickle in the jeep and wanted to see how it did and found I had to lower the discrimination down to almost iron to pick it up. So I'm curious to know if these settings are what ya'll have found with your machines or is mine kinda out of calibration? Finds for the night were 3 dimes (1 was on top of the ground) 1 nickle, 7 pennies (i've hunted this school yard several times and always left the zinc pennies, guess I just missed the other two dimes and nickle the other times) 3 metal buttons or rather parts of buttons and 1 9mm bullet, not sure how it got there as it looks like it was fired, but isn't mushroomed. Didn't dig any pull tabs, did get one pencil eraser, a paper clip and some really small pieces of metal that I thought was larger due to the sound the machine made, heck I like to have never even found one of them in my hand it was so small. Anyway all help on the settings an just use of the cibola in general is greatly appreciated. Jimmie
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cibola questions
- Thread starter digginLa
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Hi Jimmy, not sure what you are using for headphones but most of them have a switch on them to make them work with various detectors, I have a set of Killer B's and if the switch is in one position they won't make a sound in the other position they work great. I have had lots of Tesoro's (a few Cibola's) and I like you have found that where things disc. out aren't always the same. What I do is to toss a nickel on the ground and set my disc. to where the nickel just disc.'s out then take a 1.5mm allen wrench and loosen the discrimination knob and set it on the nickel mark or where ever you want it then tighten up the set screw, I don't believe it has anything to do with not being calibrated just that the knob setting isn't in sync so to speak. Steve.digginLa said:
I tried the switch in both positions and never could get a sound out of it, headphones (timberwolf rebel's) have been working great on my DeLeon, however it is at the factory right now due to totally losing its sound, headphones and speaker, so plan is to send in the cibola once I get my DeLeon back so I'll continue to have a working detector now that its cooling off a little and has finally rained so the ground isnt so dang hard. Since I'm going to be sending it in for the sound problem going to have them check the calibration then after I get it back recheck where the nickle discs out and just put a mark there so i'll always know. Jimmie
mrwilburino
Member
My settings for the Cibola:
Depending on how trashy the site is I would set the disc at either the first or second line above iron. Everything between those lines and the nickel mark - dig. Everything between the nickel mark and the pull-tab mark - don't dig. Everything above the pull-tab mark - dig. On my machine nickels and pull tabs cut out at their designated marks but yours could be a little different. Don't try to disc out too much trash with the Cibola or you'll be eliminating coins also.
Depending on how trashy the site is I would set the disc at either the first or second line above iron. Everything between those lines and the nickel mark - dig. Everything between the nickel mark and the pull-tab mark - don't dig. Everything above the pull-tab mark - dig. On my machine nickels and pull tabs cut out at their designated marks but yours could be a little different. Don't try to disc out too much trash with the Cibola or you'll be eliminating coins also.
Monkeywrangler22
New member
Try pulling the headphone plug out about 1/8-1/4" and see if you get tone then. My Cib used to do the no-sound thing with a plug adapter which was too long.
After talking to David at Dixie Metal Detectors (where I ordered my Cibola) I decided to go to radio shack last nite and buy a cheap pair of headphones to try out, luckily I tried them on my ipod first and discovered that one the speakers didnt work, got a new pair, plugged tha adaptor in the jack turned the machine on and I heard the beeps, was kinda embarrassed that it was my headphones the whole time but they work with the DeLeon so I figured they should work with the Cibola, guess I was wrong huh? 
Anyways headphones are no loger made so I guess I'll just have to buy a new pair, think its going to be the jolly rogers or grey ghosts.
Went hunting for about 45 minutes last night after getting the headphones and found 37c (1 quarter, 2 nickles and 2 pennies) I did dig one pull tab ring which I'm going to use to see where the tabs disc out at and put a mark there and where I lose the nickle at since the actual spot is nowhere near the line on the detector. Other than that it seems to working great hope to get out with it for a longer time this weekend and see what I can find with it then. Thanks for the tips. Jimmie
Anyways headphones are no loger made so I guess I'll just have to buy a new pair, think its going to be the jolly rogers or grey ghosts.Went hunting for about 45 minutes last night after getting the headphones and found 37c (1 quarter, 2 nickles and 2 pennies) I did dig one pull tab ring which I'm going to use to see where the tabs disc out at and put a mark there and where I lose the nickle at since the actual spot is nowhere near the line on the detector. Other than that it seems to working great hope to get out with it for a longer time this weekend and see what I can find with it then. Thanks for the tips. Jimmie
fowlercharles
Member
I can't say for the Cibola settings but your finding of the differences in the Disc. of the nickles will prove true for most all machines. I think you also might discover the need to go even lower on the disc. in order to find Shield Nickles and some of the other older coins, as well as those smaller, rare,high $ CW buttons.Realizing those differences and keeping the disc. low and moving slow is how the better finds are made. I know I passed over lots of goodies before I realized that.HH Charlie
I had a pair of headphones that had different plugs on each side of the Cable. If you plugged the headphones into your detector and it did not work You could unplug one side that went into the headphones, then plug the other side in the Phones Then the detector would work.
Sven
Well-known member
Waterdog said:
The Ratphones were wired one end stereo the other end mono. That way you could use them with any detector. Just swap ends depending on detector.
That's what I did using a mono guitar patch cord when I built my headphones. Recently rewired one end with a stereo plug.
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Between you and me, I hated that thing. It's an okay machine for a kid learning to detect, but for a seasoned adult it's just a toy. But that's just between you and me. Don't let the Garrett fans hear me say that. 
Problem was I bought into the hype. You know the kind of hype I'm talking about (because it's happening all over again)!
When I got rid of that bing-bong toy and got my first Tejon it was like a whole new world opened up. I took it to a school yard that I had found 50 coins with (with the ace) and, even without a single hour on the Tejon, found 105 more coins, including a lot of nickels and dimes the Ace missed. Now of course one could argue that I just didn't know how to use the ace. But that was my first outing with the Tejon so that argument doesn't stand. By the way, I ended up pulling out close to 1000 coins from that schoolyard with the Tejon, and a hand full of rings (no gold however).
Dan
Problem was I bought into the hype. You know the kind of hype I'm talking about (because it's happening all over again)!
When I got rid of that bing-bong toy and got my first Tejon it was like a whole new world opened up. I took it to a school yard that I had found 50 coins with (with the ace) and, even without a single hour on the Tejon, found 105 more coins, including a lot of nickels and dimes the Ace missed. Now of course one could argue that I just didn't know how to use the ace. But that was my first outing with the Tejon so that argument doesn't stand. By the way, I ended up pulling out close to 1000 coins from that schoolyard with the Tejon, and a hand full of rings (no gold however).
Dan
jersey devl
New member
fowlercharles said:
I concur...all my buffalo nickels come in at just just between the 2 lines after iron ...that is with the Vaquero but they are a similar machine.
Thanks for the tips on the settings guess I need to get some of my coins and and see where the cibola rejects them at and make a mark in the face plate to match then just hunt below that mark, although I don't foresee having much luck finding any of the older coins in the areas I have available to hunt (best I've done so far is a mercury dime in a school tot lot, 53 I think Washington quarter and one really worn barber quarter in another school yard) but you never know whats there till you dig it up so I'll set the disc optimistically and see what I find. Jimmie
coindgr
Member
today with my cibola in an old school yard with setting one notch above iorn and sens. at 10, i found 4 clad quarters, 5 dimes,3 nickles, 4 mem pennies, and 2 wheaties a 41 and 46 and 1 1921 virginia dog tax dog tog that blew my ears off at 4inches, i like dog tags thats my oldest one yet,ive been digging all small good sounding targets and i keep doing better and better,it just takes a little getting used to and its great, no need to spend 1400.00 bucks, love my beep and dig, HH
I don't understand are you saying that the Cibola is just for a kid but is just a toy for a adult ???dan b said:Between you and me, I hated that thing. It's an okay machine for a kid learning to detect, but for a seasoned adult it's just a toy. But that's just between you and me. Don't let the Garrett fans hear me say that.
Problem was I bought into the hype. You know the kind of hype I'm talking about (because it's happening all over again)!
When I got rid of that bing-bong toy and got my first Tejon it was like a whole new world opened up. I took it to a school yard that I had found 50 coins with (with the ace) and, even without a single hour on the Tejon, found 105 more coins, including a lot of nickels and dimes the Ace missed. Now of course one could argue that I just didn't know how to use the ace. But that was my first outing with the Tejon so that argument doesn't stand. By the way, I ended up pulling out close to 1000 coins from that schoolyard with the Tejon, and a hand full of rings (no gold however).
Dan
[size=medium]OK that's cleared up for me you were not talking about the Cibola........dan b said:Between you and me, I hated that thing. It's an okay machine for a kid learning to detect, but for a seasoned adult it's just a toy. But that's just between you and me. Don't let the Garrett fans hear me say that.
Problem was I bought into the hype. You know the kind of hype I'm talking about (because it's happening all over again)!
When I got rid of that bing-bong toy and got my first Tejon it was like a whole new world opened up. I took it to a school yard that I had found 50 coins with (with the ace) and, even without a single hour on the Tejon, found 105 more coins, including a lot of nickels and dimes the Ace missed. Now of course one could argue that I just didn't know how to use the ace. But that was my first outing with the Tejon so that argument doesn't stand. By the way, I ended up pulling out close to 1000 coins from that schoolyard with the Tejon, and a hand full of rings (no gold however).
Dan
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[/size]Jimmie, I have a Cibola I've taken to England three times. I took a DFX300 once, and sold it when I got home. I found my first gold coin, with the Cibola, the first year, a Celtic gold stater from around 30B.C. The guy that does the tour has a piece of gold that he thinks is Saxon, but is not sure. It's hard to describe, but it's circular, about 1 1/2" in diameter, open in the middle like a ring, but flat like a brooch. Finally the point: I asked him if he had a piece of gold I could check my Cibola against to see if I was discriminating gold out when I had it set just above Iron. That was where he had recommended earlier. And, just touching the top of the word Iron, I couldn't get a sound out of the gold. Just touching the bottom edge, it picked it up fine. I don't know if that would correspond to thin gold rings over here. (It does, I just checked against a thin 10K ring I found in the lake with the Cibola this summer. If the setting is on the top side of Iron, I get no sound. If it's just below Iron, I get a great signal.) Hope this is some use to you. Skip