UK METAL DETECTING

Samuel · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 153

is it worth getting one why would i use one?

rayredditch · Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 222

Very usefull if you´re digging down and not finding the target. This usually means the coins stuck in the wall somewhere, and rather than have a huge whole, you use a pin pointer to find it.

Samuel · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 153

do they detect very deep?

quickcuff · Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Lancashire

I'm in the market for one of those also..... any preferences ? Which one would you recommend ?

rayredditch · Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 222

No, they´re not meant to go deep, about two or three inches, just to locate coins in the spoil, or side wall.
Cheap ones are about £ 15.00 to £ 20.00 (Chinese) and do the job Laughing

DFX-MAN · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 12 Location: scotland

As a coincedince i just recieved my new whites bullseye 2 in the post today, Very Happy

now complete with led light and sensitivity adjustment seems to be the buisness.
Have used a bullseye 1 for a few years now.
Saves swinging less handfulls of soil in front of the coil,a great piece of kit.

quickcuff · Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Lancashire

UK Brian · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 431 Location: Wales

Ther's an awful lot of poor ones on the market either build quality or design.
By design I mean some have to be switched on and then tuned, then next time you get it out you have to do the same. Or they don't stand up to being in the rain.

I prefer to manage without but did have a Vibraprobe some years back. Built like a battleship. Worked on the pulse induction priciple, no tuning, no switching on as taking it out of its holster swiched it on, putting back switched it off. Waterproof and vibrated so it didn't suffer from low audio output that you can't hear with headphones on. Very expensive though.

The other option is to fit an online probe to the detector itself. Piggy backs in to the coil connector. Acts just like a small coil as its using the detectors circuit to work and putting the audio straight into your headphones. When not in use it clips on the detector shaft just below the control box. Rainproof, no batteries needed but even more expensive.

If your in a dealers check how fast the handheld probes go off tune and also the detection area on the shaft of the probe. You need a tip sensitive one. The more they detect down the shaft the harder they are to use.