"Final" F-75 TID Coin Scale

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I think this is the end of Phase I for my coin sweeping. Represents every U.S pattern coin I have in vinyl flips that I could test and the to-date field finds (sadly all clad) are staying within the marks. I still haven't turned any jewelry with the F-75, and that will be the next phase. Bummed me out that I hit a steel cap yesterday that read 56 and caused me to have to close the "trash gap" between foil and pull tabs.

I'll gladly accept any donations of jewelry to be tested but regret such samples cannot be returned.

HH

 

[Mark in NC]

n/t

 

[erikk]

Very nice. Bottom line though, once you factor in the jewelry it is going to be-Dig all from 15-98. Although detectors have really improved since I started in the 60's it still boils down to the cold hard fact that if you want to be sure what is down there you have to DIG IT

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

No argument here. We have a display with 99 possible results and millions upon millions of different metallic objects in the ground to try and shoehorn into those segments.

Pity the guys with detectors that show little icons of diamond rings and Lincoln Cents who have to interpret the target.

What you can do, and I already have done, is to consider this scale when in a area of specific trash items; i.e. shothell bases in a field, steel bottle caps in picnic pavilions.

This was also intended as a warning what will be lost if too much discrimination is applied. The only way to learn a detector is to dig, dig, dig. This was my worksheet for mapping the results. And getting that signal is then like shaking a wrapped gift instead of just looking at it. It goes "tinkle", I wonder what's inside?

 

[MattR]

n/t

 

[digitrich]

Now that you saved me eighteen hours work, could you go ahead and redo the whole thing over with an iron nail taped to each target, so I'll know where all my targets will really id? Thanks for the info, really.

 

[NealNoIN]

n/t

 

[Neugene]

Thanks Charlie. I have converted your graphic (.gif) file to PDF. I don't know how to post it here but if anyone is interested in being able to print this out on multiple pages and can tell me how to post it I will do so providing that you don't mind.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

No problem. Any F-75 user is a friend of mine.

Though I don't know how to upload a .pdf file here, either. You may have to upload it somewhere else and link to it.