fastforty
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I forgot that I had this thing, a friend gave it to me & it's been in the basement for years.
It's a "White's Gold Master Metal & Mineral Detector", Model GM63 with a manufacture date of 7/65.
It has knob type switch controls for:
Metal/Null/Mineral
Batt check (off/1.5/9/67.5)
Power On/Off
and knobs for:
Speaker Control
Radio Tuner
The "Radio Tuner" is intriguing, it has a small inner knob that turns a lot while the big outer knob goes slow. It tunes from 0-100.
Oh yeah, and a 3-scale "DC Voltage" meter:
Top scale: 0-100
Middle scale: 0-10
Bottom scale: 1-2
(Seems like that might come into use when operating the battery check feature)
It has a small (appx 4") solid coil & a large (maybe 12-16") ring coil. Both look like plywood.
It had some interesting Eveready cardboard box type batteries in it, one for 67.5 volts, and another for 1.5 volts (each a little bigger then a pack of cigarettes), in addition to a standard 9 volt battery.
My questions are:
1) Is the thing of any value?
2) Where on earth could one get batteries for it & would they be prohibitively expensive?
3) Being a tunable Mineral detector, could it be tuned to find say, arrowheads in loose sand?
The guy I got it from said that at one time, you could send these older units back to Whites & get them upgraded to use a more modern power source. Dunno now.
Any info would be appreciated
It's a "White's Gold Master Metal & Mineral Detector", Model GM63 with a manufacture date of 7/65.
It has knob type switch controls for:
Metal/Null/Mineral
Batt check (off/1.5/9/67.5)
Power On/Off
and knobs for:
Speaker Control
Radio Tuner
The "Radio Tuner" is intriguing, it has a small inner knob that turns a lot while the big outer knob goes slow. It tunes from 0-100.
Oh yeah, and a 3-scale "DC Voltage" meter:
Top scale: 0-100
Middle scale: 0-10
Bottom scale: 1-2
(Seems like that might come into use when operating the battery check feature)
It has a small (appx 4") solid coil & a large (maybe 12-16") ring coil. Both look like plywood.
It had some interesting Eveready cardboard box type batteries in it, one for 67.5 volts, and another for 1.5 volts (each a little bigger then a pack of cigarettes), in addition to a standard 9 volt battery.
My questions are:
1) Is the thing of any value?
2) Where on earth could one get batteries for it & would they be prohibitively expensive?
3) Being a tunable Mineral detector, could it be tuned to find say, arrowheads in loose sand?
The guy I got it from said that at one time, you could send these older units back to Whites & get them upgraded to use a more modern power source. Dunno now.
Any info would be appreciated