Gobyman
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- Minelab Excal 1000, Excal with 15" WOT
Hey All,
Found my first platinum today, but did'nt get to keep it
Before I even got into the water for my 2hr hunt a german couple asked if I could find the husbands wedding band he had lost 30 minutes before I got there. I'll I could get for a desciption after some bad translating was that it was silver colored. So after doing a grid search for about 20 minutes, the couple was just about to give up, I hit the ring! As I was pulling out of the scoop thinking it was maybe a white gold ring, the weight seemed pretty heavy and then I saw the 950 mark in it. Needless to say the couple was estatic and asked how much for finding it, but when I said no charge and to consider it a welcome gift from a humble american, the wife stuffed a $20 in my hand 
Did get a little surprise though on a smalll ring I thought was a 925 ring, turned out to be a 10K white gold ring (looks like half of a wedding band set) 
Also found a strange foreign coin (looks like asian writing with some english) 
The kicker is that these finds where with my crippled Excal...had to do some jerry ringing with some stiff fuel tubing to keep it from falsing (think it is where the coil cable meets the coil, either a loose wire or something), but as you can see I'm able to still detect with it in the water. Luckly I was able to find another used Excal 1000 locally I'll be getting at the end of the month for $750 (see pic) thats coming with alot of nice extras 
...so I'm thinking I'll do a coil mod on on this one (maybe a WOT or SEF coil), guess it never hurts to have a back-up Excal though 8). Well thats about it, sorry for the long post.
HH All,
Gobyman
Found my first platinum today, but did'nt get to keep it
Before I even got into the water for my 2hr hunt a german couple asked if I could find the husbands wedding band he had lost 30 minutes before I got there. I'll I could get for a desciption after some bad translating was that it was silver colored. So after doing a grid search for about 20 minutes, the couple was just about to give up, I hit the ring! As I was pulling out of the scoop thinking it was maybe a white gold ring, the weight seemed pretty heavy and then I saw the 950 mark in it. Needless to say the couple was estatic and asked how much for finding it, but when I said no charge and to consider it a welcome gift from a humble american, the wife stuffed a $20 in my hand Did get a little surprise though on a smalll ring I thought was a 925 ring, turned out to be a 10K white gold ring (looks like half of a wedding band set) Also found a strange foreign coin (looks like asian writing with some english) The kicker is that these finds where with my crippled Excal...had to do some jerry ringing with some stiff fuel tubing to keep it from falsing (think it is where the coil cable meets the coil, either a loose wire or something), but as you can see I'm able to still detect with it in the water. Luckly I was able to find another used Excal 1000 locally I'll be getting at the end of the month for $750 (see pic) thats coming with alot of nice extras ...so I'm thinking I'll do a coil mod on on this one (maybe a WOT or SEF coil), guess it never hurts to have a back-up Excal though 8). Well thats about it, sorry for the long post.HH All,
Gobyman
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