armadillo66
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A buddy of mine runs a jewelery store here in KC. So today we took several different carat weights of gold and held them to the coil and noted the readings and sensitivity.
14K read a 4, but the unit was not very sensitive to it. I was actually disappointed at how many times we moved that piece of jeweler's bench repair gold across the coil and it did not read it.
18k bracelet read a 4 a little more sensitive than the 14k and 24k
24k read a 5-6 and once again the machine did not record it being passed by the coil very well.
A white gold wedding band hit 4 with poor recognition as well
A couple of different nugget rings were reading 5-6 and read strong. My jeweler buddy said that he thought the alloy mix of the different pieces was the cause and maybe adjusting sensitivity would make a difference out in the ground.
Platinum ring did not hit on it at all, a gold watch hit strong, but there is a bunch of other metals in the mechanism too.
Am I needing to make a sensitivity adjustment to get it to hit gold better?
I worked a couple of sand volleyball courts this morning and only found one nickel in them. Considering the courts were located on a large church yard in a very high dollar home area I figured I might get at least one small piece of gold out of it, but no beans
14K read a 4, but the unit was not very sensitive to it. I was actually disappointed at how many times we moved that piece of jeweler's bench repair gold across the coil and it did not read it.
18k bracelet read a 4 a little more sensitive than the 14k and 24k
24k read a 5-6 and once again the machine did not record it being passed by the coil very well.
A white gold wedding band hit 4 with poor recognition as well
A couple of different nugget rings were reading 5-6 and read strong. My jeweler buddy said that he thought the alloy mix of the different pieces was the cause and maybe adjusting sensitivity would make a difference out in the ground.
Platinum ring did not hit on it at all, a gold watch hit strong, but there is a bunch of other metals in the mechanism too.
Am I needing to make a sensitivity adjustment to get it to hit gold better?
I worked a couple of sand volleyball courts this morning and only found one nickel in them. Considering the courts were located on a large church yard in a very high dollar home area I figured I might get at least one small piece of gold out of it, but no beans
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