Yeah, bet it would not cost more than 50 bucks.
Maybe even play a little, but nothing serious, it does not look like it would be fun to hold all day. Do 100 hours with that and your wrist and elbow going to be upset with you.
Deserves to be cleaned up proper, and hung up on the wall for all to see.
Think these where made in Huntsville Texas, they used to take adds out in Playboy magazine way back in the day for these, full page adds you could mail order with, remember seeing first adds with only 2 machines to pick from and later four machines to pick from.
Impressed that you remembered seeing the ad there. Didn't know anyone ever looked at the ads!
Not trying to HIJACK this thread BUT OddJob HOW did you know they took out ADDS in PLAYBOY ? Just wondering
Jim, that's the earliest Jetco I've ever seen. The first detector I ever bought was a Jetco, but a much later model.
The JET in Jetco stands for John E. Turner. He created Jetco in the 60's with a BFO circuit taken from a magazine article. Eventually, Turner bought Bounty Hunter and Teknetics out of bankruptcy and sold them to First Texas Products. I now work for that company. Turner is still living but in poor health, I've been trying to get an interview with him for several months for a book I'm writing.
I also collect vintage detectors, so if you decide you want to sell that one let me know. It will go on the wall in the Engineering offices at FTP.