Well this is my 3rd.Nice to see you get out and hunt ARC. Such is the case with the excal....im trying hard to keep mine from disintegrating. What I've learned after owning 5-6 excals, is that no matter what degree of care you give them....it won't matter. After a certain amount of time and use the knobs lock up and fall off, and the cords disintegrate. I've tried every kind of product in an effort to protect and lubricate the machine......none of it mattered.....this the nature of the beast. I went through my swim hole and found every hair pin that I had tuned out on the nox !! I found nothing with the excal except what I had tuned out with the nox.
Beings i owned 2 of the first X2's to be had in the U.S. and used and abused the crap outta them... then sold them both... and bought this one that i took extra care on to the point of trying to "preserve it"..... welp...... it did not work.Pinpointer worked like a charm though
Well this is my 3rd.
And i have always maintained them as far as rinsing and a silicone spray... but i only bought some extra time it seems... it was not that long ago that i was bragging how mine was still kicking.
And the drops... rough handling... abuse ... left in sun.... forgetting to wash off... knocking around.,, falling over.... left in hot cars for days... etc etc.I will have you know this......
I am going to check my pulse which is in its bag and way up on shelf.... i dont know if i will today but will soon.
I bet you....
The cables are still good.
And its eons old.
Agreed.The silicone spray is what I used also, and I think it bought me an extra year.... so it's worth it. I also had one that I never ever once even rinsed the salt off....just turn it off and set it down salty.....it lasted almost the same time as the ones I babied, so im not sure if it even matters.....they are a sealed unit soooooo.......im starting to think it really dosent matter. Mine lab was smart to give the nox a 3 year warranty......for most will never use enough to ware it out. And now I understand the reasoning. At the 5 year mark minelab knows another model will be launched, and everyone will upgrade rather than repair there older machines. We need them to upgrade the excal line....excal III
This was her first day using it... and she has had it for about a year.I have had many detectors... never settled on any but the 2 i still own.
Bought my girl a new Garrett 250 because she really liked her first one.
She likes the weight and knows it well.
She found...
1 pull tab.
1 nail
1 matchbox Red fire truck (which she gave to a watching kid)
And a fire nugget. (which she was excited about heh)
And a ghost target which eluded her to boredom.