Hi,This is my first post here on this forum,I am new to the hobby,My father was a avid treasure hunter for the past 30+ years and he was a huge teknetics fan.Well long story short he recently passed away at 76 years of age and he left me a teknetics 7700..Seems to work ok but i hear a lot of static in the speaker and i can jiggle the cord from the coil to the head unt and it will stop for a short period then start the raspy sound in the speaker again.Will Teknetics still service this unit.I would like to carry on his favorite hobby with his favorite detector...Thanks
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Teknetics 7700
- Thread starter timjude
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MarkCZ
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Hi and Welcome To The Forum!timjude said:
No! the new Teknetics company does not service the older Tek units. The original Teknetics went belly up due to some bad investments. The Teknetics name was carried over into the Bounty Hunter line (Teknetics had bought Bounty Hunter) so were the rights to the name. Now some time way later Bounty Hunter was acquired by "First Texas" and so they had rights to the Teknetics name.
Then some time even later "First Texas" acquired the Fisher company.
Sometime along in here "First Texas" started up a Teknetics line of detectors of there own.
One place that I know of that does service the older Tek units is a place called "East Texas Detectors" (not to be confused with First Texas, they are different). The guy that runs it is Kieth Wills, when the original Teknetics went under he bought up ALL remaining factory detector parts. So, most times he can fix them. You can go to his web site at brokendetector.com it might be brokendetectors??
But, first the problem sounds like it may be an easy one to fix yourself. I would go somewhere and pick up some electronic spray cleaner (maybe Radio Shack),
disconnect the coil connector and the control box,
spray a little on all the mating pins and while its still a bit wet plug it in and out a few times,
then you could get an old tooth brush and spray the male pins again and brush the pins real good and plug it back up and try again, that may fix it, if not you still may be able to fix it yourself. First try the cleaning and see how that goes.
Mark
Thank's for the fast reply Mark,I will try cleaning the pins and my dad was a smoker and i am sure it's covered in nicotine..I am looking forward to using it the first time..There is an old homestead that was torn down way back in the 30's very close to my home and i have to get the four wheeler out to get too it.there are only a couple of old shed's still standing and plenty of huge oak tree's around the property where i am sure many children played in and around..Exited to go on my first hunt!!
MarkCZ
Well-known member
timjude said:
WoW! sounds like a great place to start detecting.
What's your interest mainly,
Relics? or
Coins and Jewelry?
The reason I ask is because areas of old homesteads usually has a LOT of relics to dig just to get to the coins.
If they were kind-a richie home sites them there might be a little less relics.
Don't set yourself up for disappointment right off the bat!
I know its easy to get into this hobby with the idea that right next to the north corner stone of this old house is a mother load of silver and gold and that's possible but! there's a better chance its just and old rusty tricycle wheel LOL!
If you can keep a mine set (like your Dad's) that's more along curiosity, possibilities and an interest in just finding and retrieving lost forgotten items then the good stuff will come in time.
The people that most often find the GOOD STUFF like gold jewelry and gold coins are the ones that dig a LOT of junk, that's because the conductive range of gold is, yep! the same range as a lot of tossed out tiny metal trash items.
And to relic hunters my reference to "A Lot Of Junk" is an insult!!!! Many of items that I might call junk to them is the greatest thing ever, and if you know a little bit about relics some of that junk as I called it can be very valuable.
It can be a LOT of fun and most find it even more fun to find a friend, buddy (even there dog) to hunt with.
Best Of Luck!
HH (Happy Hunting)
Mark
Ed in SoDak
Member
It's pretty likely your 7700 will accept an older BH coil, if you know someone who owns one or they can be found used. Sometimes the fine wires break inside the plug or just behind it where the cable flexes the most. You can have a replacement plug installed on your old coil's cable by almost anyone who has a little soldering experience.
-Ed
-Ed
MarkCZ
Well-known member
timjude said:
If you can get the coil connection straightened out, then it should do you well enough to figure just how much your going to like the hobby,
Find out what your treasure hunting taste is, meaning,
Relic, (including Civil War artifacts)
Coins, (beach or land?)
Many like the underwater detectors.
ect......
I've never ran the Tek 7700, the ones I had were a bit older than that,
The Teknetics 9000/B
The Teknetics 8500/B
The Teknetics Mark 1
The biggest problem with those older units was size!
Next is depth, in the discrimination mode they fall a little short of the detectors that came along a few years later, but they still do well.
Mark
Ed in SoDak
Member
These are capable detectors, even today, but they have their limits in bad ground and also their quirks regarding sweep speeds and the possibility of a lot of knobs to contend with. Some have age-related circuitry issues. But don't ever just get rid of one on a whim. All too often people are later trying to find another one after selling theirs.
If you can handle the weight and battery issues, you can indeed learn how to detect with one of these old Tek machines. It may become your standard against which all other detectors you buy are are measured.
-Ed
If you can handle the weight and battery issues, you can indeed learn how to detect with one of these old Tek machines. It may become your standard against which all other detectors you buy are are measured.
-Ed