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Yes it is a PI detector 1970's vintage. I'll let you guess its purpose. Then I'll show you what it found.
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Ok, I'll guess 
How about for finding nuggets? Let the water flow through the tube, and maybe one end of the tube has a coil on it?
The other idea is that it's used like a clam tube, push one end of the tube down deep in the sand, close off an air hole, and lift a core of sand out (only when it detects something though)
Am I even close? Heh.
How about for finding nuggets? Let the water flow through the tube, and maybe one end of the tube has a coil on it?
The other idea is that it's used like a clam tube, push one end of the tube down deep in the sand, close off an air hole, and lift a core of sand out (only when it detects something though)
Am I even close? Heh.
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Jeff, I like your clam tube idea for deep rings in soft sand for the wet zone. These WOT coils and newer PI detectors are starting to make a tool like this a necessity. We've been experimenting with this for a while and are close to having something that works.---Rick
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There is certainly a coil on the bottom end of the tube but there is also a perspex window. The tube and window act like a glass bottom bucket and enable you to see the bottom clearly even in very murky water. This was developed for police searches where items had been thrown into rivers or ponds and would not be deeply buried. A hoard of stolen silver was recovered with the aid of the
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