Sweating Hands - Nox 800

[cyperpc]

I took my new Nox 800 to the beach and I found 53 cents in total. Nothing deep and nothing you could not find with any other MD. The only thing I did not like was my hand kept sweating holding the handle. Maybe it was just me? Has anyone else been having this problem?

 

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[sgoss66]

No, but some "vet wrap" would help. I wrap my handle in vet wrap -- you might try it and see how it works for you...

Steve

 

[cudamark]

I took my new Nox 800 to the beach and I found 53 cents in total. Nothing deep and nothing you could not find with any other MD. The only thing I did not like was my hand kept sweating holding the handle. Maybe it was just me? Has anyone else been having this problem?

What mode and settings were you using?

 

[vferrari]

Also, where were you hunting? 53 cents seems par for the course for random dry sand hunting.

Since you also own a CZ-21, you must know the very wet sand along the tide line and ankle deep water or deeper surf is where the Equinox excels. Places where most other non-multifrequency detectors run unstable or their gains have to be turned down so much you lose appreciable depth. Is that where you recovered your clad? If so, not just any detector can work those areas and run stable.

Those just hunting dry sand are at the mercy of recent drops and beachgoer traffic and those targets are snatched up pretty quickly because of the simple fact that every Tom, Dick, and Harriet can hit that part of the beach with a Walmart battery on a stick and find the day's dropped clad.


You probably already know this, but for the benefit of others, you want to score big ticket targets and take advantage of the Equinox's stability and depth in salt water you need to either find significantly eroded parts of the beach at low tide due to storm surf action or get in the water and take your lumps. Most jewelry is not lost on the dry sand towel line where most any detector can go, but in the water when fingers and wrists shrink when entering the cold surf or earrings and necklaces get knocked of folks by wave action.

I always wear nitril close fitting gloves when detecting. They give you tactile feel so you can still operate the buttons on the detector or even your phone, allow you to have a firm, non-slip grip on your detector and scoop/shovel, and protect your hands from shards of glass or metal edges during target recovery. Your hands will still sweat or get wet, but you won't lose your grip.

HTH.

 

[smokeythecat]

I wear cheap jersey gloves all year round so no sweat problem. You know, the little brown kind most convenience stores handle.

 

[cudamark]

My hands are about the only thing that doesn't sweat when I'm detecting!

 

[HighVDI]

Oh no, now the Equinox bashers will remind us they never even came with handle coolers! Wonder if an update can straighten this out?

 

[Dan(NM)]

I used to wrap my handles with vet wrap, now I use a tacky tennis handle grip wrap.... I wear gloves when I hunt so I don't have a problem with my hands getting sweaty, they are a little ripe after six or seven hours of hunting in hot weather :-)

 

[cyperpc]

What mode and settings were you using?

Beach 1 but not sure what that has to do with sweating hands?

 

[cudamark]

Beach 1 but not sure what that has to do with sweating hands?

It has to do with the other comments you made about finding $.53 and nothing deep. I thought you might want some tips for deeper targets.

 

[Hawks88]

Good post. Thanks for all the info. V your the man. Thanks guys.

 

[ripvanb]

I don’t wear a glove on the hand holding the equinox and haven’t experienced any sweating. Maybe it will happen in the summer.

 

[ColonelDan]

I totally agree with Vferrari when he says:

"I always wear nitril close fitting gloves when detecting. They give you tactile feel so you can still operate the buttons on the detector or even your phone, allow you to have a firm, non-slip grip on your detector and scoop/shovel, and protect your hands from shards of glass or metal edges during target recovery. Your hands will still sweat or get wet, but you won't lose your grip."


I strongly suggest you wear gloves while detecting the beach. You'll not have the sweaty hands on the handle problem but you just never know what's in that hole you're reaching into. I've pulled out everything you can think of that can punch a hole in your hand....glass, pins, sharp metal, fish hooks, knives, forks...just all kind of junk like that.

I wouldn't even consider hunting any beach without both foot and hand protection...period.

Just the view from my foxhole....

 

[CoinFetcher]

I got a 10 pack of really nice fitted gloves at Costco for 7.99usd