Electroscope Metal Detector

[snakeyes]

Does anybody know or have any oppinions on this machine, I found one on albuquerque craigs list for $400 the claims seem a little outlandish to me for a detector that only uses a 9volt battery,claims to find gold and silver at depths of up to 12feet.

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[Steve Ia]

You could use a coat hanger cut into L rods and be just as effective. Clark Howard should have these on his show as one of the many scams these days.

[savant365]

They look like something P.T. Barnum would have sold

Electroscopes - Long Range Metal Detectors, Treasure Finder

[U.K. Brian]

They had to withdraw the British advertising in the end. Most ads were along the lines that "Electroscopes by Thomas" won first, second and third place at the so and so rally. Turned out that they only allowed Electroscopes to enter !

[Adrian SS]

These LRLs only have a chance to work if you are psychic and that is pretty much NOOOO CHAAAANCE!!! Even then you will need a very vivid imagination to convince yourself that it is working... Otherwise forget them...........WEEEELLLL! forget them anyway.........How many psychics do you know who have found their Eldorado (and are now mining magnates) using one of these useless contraptions.........NOT ONE, ZIP, ZULTCH, ZERO, NONE, NADA, NOT ANYONE.

[bingbong]

Geotech - Technology for Treasure Hunting

save your money and use some cotton reels and coat hangers to get the same result

[bingbong]

The Electroscope is NOT a metal detector. It is a dowsing rod, no better and no worse than a forked stick, a bent coat hanger or a piece of welding rod. It contains absolutely no circuitry that can discriminate or differentiate between diverse metals. It is a totally passive device that is incapable of either transmitting, receiving or amplifying electrical signals of any kind. There is no physical or electrical connection between the handle and the circuit that can cause the meter to deflect or the case to pivot when a buried object is "detected."

[U.K. Brian]

They did in fact make a more normal type detector. I think it was called the 301 though it might have been a 501. God my mind is going, I use to be able to remember all this stuff.

[bingbong]

some years back when they were advertising a lot i went to the dealers to examine one .
i held it in my hand and it spun round and round without stopping .you could tilt it one way and then another.
i smelt a rat right away .
a bent coat hanger mounted in a cotton reel sprang to mind.

[dan_h]

Assume for the sake of discussion it is a TR/IB metal detector with the forward antenna to transmit and a receive coil somewhere in the housing. It will send a ground wave along the surface of the ground and a coin will procuce a very weak return signal directed above. How would any receive coil in the housing receive a signal? Or if it is pulse induction and the antenna is both the transmist and receive antenna, the same problem of sensing a very weak return signal exists. If I see one for sale at a flea market for around $10, I'll buy just to fool around with it.

[woof!]

It doesn't detect metal at all. It detects three things: gravity, tilt, and wishful thinking.

If a person, having been informed what it is, still wants to buy it, I say go for it!

--Dave J.