DadOfTwo
Jr. Member
- Nov 28, 2014
- 42
- 38
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Coinmaster GT, Vulcan 360 pp.
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Any 'value' in antique detectors?
Second thread here....
Looking to get started in the hobby, and I ran across an ad for an old Coinmaster that looks pretty rough. Seller doesn't know year of manufacture. Listed as 'coinmaster 1/dB mineral & metal detector.' I doubt 1/db is a model number. More likely a performance spec or a setting on the dial...
I'm not necessarily looking at this relic as a unit to get me started in the hobby, but it might be fun to play with alongside a more modern unit. If the price is right.
I've worked in electronics for years, and kinda like the idea of restoring old stuff, but don't want to buy something un-restorable. Also don't want something that is completely useless once restored.
Seller also told me that it just needs a battery. Yeah, right. So I can't even turn in on and test it.
Some companies only support their current line, some go back a couple generations, etc. Does anybody know how far back Whites supports? I don't necessarily want to send it to them for overhaul, but it would be nice to know I could get parts.
Anybody here into old gear?
Second thread here....
Looking to get started in the hobby, and I ran across an ad for an old Coinmaster that looks pretty rough. Seller doesn't know year of manufacture. Listed as 'coinmaster 1/dB mineral & metal detector.' I doubt 1/db is a model number. More likely a performance spec or a setting on the dial...
I'm not necessarily looking at this relic as a unit to get me started in the hobby, but it might be fun to play with alongside a more modern unit. If the price is right.
I've worked in electronics for years, and kinda like the idea of restoring old stuff, but don't want to buy something un-restorable. Also don't want something that is completely useless once restored.
Seller also told me that it just needs a battery. Yeah, right. So I can't even turn in on and test it.
Some companies only support their current line, some go back a couple generations, etc. Does anybody know how far back Whites supports? I don't necessarily want to send it to them for overhaul, but it would be nice to know I could get parts.
Anybody here into old gear?
(late 1970s?) And also not old enough to have any vintage value. There was a ton of detectors sold from the mid 1960s and through the 1970s. So to have something collectors want, you'd have to have 1950s or very early 1960s coin-hunters (thus excluding 2-box units). IMHO. But even then, hardly any collectors of vintage detectors.
