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Title: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: proconsul on March 03, 2011, 02:47:36 PM Some of us have been in this metal detecting lark quite a while, getting on for forty years in my case, and we've had a few metal detectors in our time.
Which was your favourite vintage detector? Have you still got it in the attic? Tell us about it (with a pic if possible). In my time I've had: Early seventies - a simple BFO Late seventies - a Fieldmaster discriminator Eighties - a C-Scope Nineties - a Whites XLT 2000's - a Minelab Explorer XS Out of the lot of them I think my favourite was the XLT. Light, easy to use and gave very positive signals. The only downside was that it loved hot rocks. Geoff Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: saxonman on March 03, 2011, 03:32:02 PM Had a C SCOPE TR 1970-74.
Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: doddy10 on March 03, 2011, 04:40:03 PM I used to use the Arado 120b and the 130 i think in the 80s sadly I dont have either machine now. I did have the XLT too for a while.
Would be interested to see the new arado though, before they stopping making machines for the hobby trade they were generally regarded as some of the best available. Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: nomad on March 03, 2011, 06:43:58 PM c scope 2m....at the time it was a good machine....now its outdated...a bit like me.....!!!
Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: dragonsbreath(Paul) on March 03, 2011, 06:49:59 PM Arado 120B and XLT long since gone.... 8)
Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: adesace on March 03, 2011, 06:59:38 PM Garrett freedom ace 250. mid eighties
Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: Debbie on March 03, 2011, 08:16:38 PM Going back in time - in the early eighties paid £15 for a very basic Viking. It was the one with a oblong white box along the stem with just 2 knobs I think - one was on/off and the other may have been to tune it. The handle and stem were shaped like a shepherds' crook :D Went around old parks lifting the iron bench seats out of the way, detecting behind and under them and putting the bench back ! Found lots of pre-decimal coins, including Victorian, and that was how the detecting bug first bit ;D On one occasion I was busy digging a signal in a woodland area of some ornamental gardens, and, unknown to me a policewoman was watching. She asked what I was up to and I nearly jumped out of my skin :D I said I was hunting for old pennies, and she just said OK, just make sure you fill in your holes and she went on her way. No hassle back then.
> Upgraded over the years, and between us have used Fisher 1235x and 1265x; Quicksilver CZ5, > a Gold Mountain King Cobra - loved hot rocks !! > Minelab Sovereign - the early one - excellent machine, great on the beach. Had it sent to a single tone - no meter or anything to look at - when it beeped you just dug it :D > Goldscan 2 for the beach, but it sounded like a Geiger counter - hard work > Minelab Explorer II Now left with e-trac, Deus and Whites Surf PI Pro. Very happy. ;D Deb Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: dances with badgers on March 04, 2011, 09:48:41 PM the stem was shaped like a shepherds what :o ?
Title: Re: Vintage metal detectors - which was your favourite and do you still have one? Post by: avalon on March 05, 2011, 07:22:13 AM Now let see, these were the machines I remember:
C-Scope 770 D Compass coin scanner White’s Eagle Spectrum White’s XLT Tesoro Silver Sabre Umax White’s DFX Tesoro Cortes Teknetics T2 Minelab Etrac |