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  1. #1
    miser

    What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    People are very loyal to their favorite machines, but is there anything about your favorite that you wish could be changed?

    Personally, I want a coil with a powerful magnet that actually pulls the find up through the ground for me. Can you imagine that?

    But seriously, fantasies aside, anything you would change on your machine?

  2. #2
    Charter Member
    us
    Director-Search & Recovery Team of Oakland County.

    Aug 2005
    In Michigan now.
    Excal 1000, Sovereign GT, CZ-20, Tiger Shark, Tejon, GTI 1500, Surfmaster Pulse, CZ6a, DFX, AT PRO, many more.
    9,428
    54 times
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    Beer spigot. I can always use less weight on the arm.
    (C) Sandman, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
    "TIME IS THE ONLY THING YOU NEVER GET BACK, WHY WASTE IT SWINGING A DETECTOR THAT ISN'T UP TO THE TASK."

  3. #3
    us
    Aug 2009
    White's MXT300
    920

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    That would only get you steel pennies most coins are not attracted by a magnet. It would by nice to clear the rusty iron out though.

  4. #4

    Jul 2006
    Land of Enchantment
    White's Matrix M6, Minelab Etrac, Teknetics Omega, Garrett AT Pro
    220
    Metal Detecting

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    My all-time favorite detector is my M6. I can think of only two ways to improve this machine - add both a backlight and a volume control.
    The early bird may get the worm, but the SECOND mouse gets the cheese!!!

  5. #5
    us
    I Get No Respect ... I tell ya' ...

    Apr 2010
    Fisher f75 ~ Sunray FX-1 Probe ~ Killer Bee's
    229

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    On occasion she's a red headed step child ...

    Other than that no complaints ...

    Oh wait ... I added a little more grip to the handle with some of the grip they use on lawn hockey sticks ...

    She's grippy ~ Al
    I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish, okay? ~ Al Czervik ... from the film Caddyshack
    Blessed are the Self-Righteous ~ Well at least they think so ...

  6. #6
    us
    Jan 2008
    MXT
    407
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    What I like the least about it is that I like it so much, that I want to hunt everyday, but can't.

  7. #7
    Charter Member
    us
    This aint no damn flea circus!!!

    Mar 2006
    Livin' in a tar-paper shack in the woods of Eastern Idaho!
    Fisher F70, Whites QXT, Garrett Pro-Pointer, "Mighty" Diggin' Tool
    3,062

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    I LOVE my quantum, Ive learned it well but wish it had VDI numbers. My F70 is nice, simple to learn & deep but I wish it had a trigger for the pinpoint. Been thinkin of modding it........
    "Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation...... one is life, the other death."
    -Ernestine L. Rose-

  8. #8

    Jun 2007
    MA NH seacoast
    what ever works
    760
    4 times

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    I dont like that its not rain proof .
    Yea you can put hoods and covers on them but why not make it rain proof.
    Some of the CZs were and so were Troy detectors.
    I bet if thy made 2 of the same units 1 RP for more money it would sell.

  9. #9
    Charter Member
    us
    Director-Search & Recovery Team of Oakland County.

    Aug 2005
    In Michigan now.
    Excal 1000, Sovereign GT, CZ-20, Tiger Shark, Tejon, GTI 1500, Surfmaster Pulse, CZ6a, DFX, AT PRO, many more.
    9,428
    54 times
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    Come to think of it a battery check on the Excal would be nice. Ya never know how much juice is left in the 1650 MAH Mimh pak.
    (C) Sandman, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
    "TIME IS THE ONLY THING YOU NEVER GET BACK, WHY WASTE IT SWINGING A DETECTOR THAT ISN'T UP TO THE TASK."

  10. #10
    us
    Aug 2007
    Topsham, Vermont
    Minelab 705, Garrett ace 250
    1,744
    Banner Finds (2)

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    I wish the "tabs' on the coils were a little stronger. They break way too easy.


    VPR

  11. #11
    us
    Feb 2010
    Texas
    181

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    I wish the T2 and Omega had back lit screens.
    My favorite detector is my Coin$trike and the ony thing i dont care for, is the location of the headset jack.

  12. #12
    Charter Member
    us
    Jan 2005
    Seymour Johnson AFB NC
    Etrac,Vaquero, Cibola, Minlab Excal and a vibra probe 580
    5,293
    2 times
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting
    Honorable Mentions (2)

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    The only two dislikes I have about my Vaquero are no volume control and the ground balance knob can be turned too easy. I have had to retrace my foot steps due to ground balance knob being moved.
    God and country.

  13. #13
    Charter Member
    us
    Jul 2010
    Watkins Glen N.Y. Finger Lakes Region,Beaver Dams N.Y.
    TEK G2, Fisher CZ5, Tesoro Toltec ll, Garrett CX ll, Killer B`s" HeadPhones,Depth Master Super Phones II,Zircon M40 pinpointer,Treasure Wise T 12 Digger, Lesche T38 Land Shark
    613
    18 times
    Metal Detecting

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    hi all
    I been huntin sence 92-93 with the Whites 6000/DI PRO SL xb man is it heavy....so i would love to have it lighter....you ever tryed the hip mount that monster....to big... ya size too.So lighter and smaller.
    We have many Detectors here newer and lighter and smaller....but its still hard for any off the newer models to run with the 6000/DI PRO xb
    thanks Gary G.A.P.metal
    I`v been detecting for 40 years owned my own detector shop G.A.P. Metal Detectors ..and loved every minute of it,hunt with a guy thats been doin it for 43 yrs 607 398 8669
    Its the Golden Rule who ever has the Gold Rules

  14. #14
    us
    Oct 2006
    Massachusetts
    Tesoro Cibola, Bounty Hunter 3300 w/4" coil
    142

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    Love my Cibola. Would be more happy if it had a true all-metal setting and loose the pinpointing button. I get deep into recovering an iffy signal and find that the signal is gone occasionally. Then I have to repeatedly press and hold that dam all-metal / pinpoint button as I bring handfulls of soil by the coil. I finally bought a hand held pinpointer but still this irritates me. hh blue

  15. #15

    Aug 2006
    WHAT KIND OF TREASURE ARE WE HUNTING TODAY ?
    MINELAB E TRAC, EXCAL2,QUATTRO,WHITE 6000 DI PRO SL,EAGLE SPECTRUM,SILVER UMAX ,BANDIDO UMAX VARIOUS VINTAGE
    1,643

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    every machine ever made should have had. either a push

    in and turn or hard to click button for power.

    either that or a snap cover to fit over the power button.

    anything that would prevent the unit from accidently

    bumped into the on position. with the result that

    it accidently got bumped on and when u go to use

    it the batteries have bled dead.

    maybe the battery companies were in cahoots

    w the makers.

    all i know is us detectorists have been gouged

    this way for years to the tune of millions of $.
    SPINNER VALUE KEY: RED is METAL DETECT.LT  BLUE is AUCTION. DARK BLUE is GOLD MINING.GREEN is THRIFT STORE.YELLOW is GEM GRUBBIN.PINK is COIN ROLL HUNT.BROWN is BEACH AND SHALLOW WATER HUNT.ORANGE JUNK PICK AND OR METAL SCRAPPING

  16. #16
    ca
    May 2008
    893
    12 times
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting
    Honorable Mentions (1)

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    Omega 8000,

    Add anti glare plastics over the screen, maybe out of a tougher type of plastic, it does scratch easily. Pretty small complaints really.

  17. #17

    Apr 2008
    343
    2 times

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    Vaquero needs improved Iron reject, or a Vaquero with multi tones.

  18. #18
    us
    Aug 2007
    DIXIE
    Minelab, White's, Fisher, Tesoro
    133

    Re: What do you like least about your favorite detector?

    I don't like it when I have to swing it back and forth. LOL
    Rule #1:  It ain't over till your setting on the couch!

 

 

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