Check this out(beach hunters, relic hunters, etc)

diggindaboot · Dec 27, 2017

tnsharpshooter said:
And how much did these babies cost back then??
And who could afford?

https://clickamericana.com/topics/food-drink/introducing-the-microwave-oven-1971

And this.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-a-stereo-VCR-cost-in-the-1980s

And now, beta machine a $2300 door stop. Lol

TNSS, I remember when my dad paid 350 bucks for a calculator. It was a gift for my mom.

lytle78 · Dec 27, 2017

First Texas hired Alexandre Tartare and acquired all rights to the intellectual property of the Manta project.

They are busy with a team in France turning it into a production machine.

There was no need to “sell assets” to do this. The clearance prices on existing detectors from First Texas are a result of a slow market in Detectors generally and a need to “clean house” when moving to their new 100,000 sq. Ft. Facility down the road from their existing one in El Paso.

No need for a meter on the Manta. It offers ferrous discrimination to good depth, not progressive discrimination like on a VLF discriminating detector. Of course, this will be a First in a production PI detector. Add that to a waterproof but handy mechanical design and it will be unique.

The other key characteristics are the ability to “see right through” black sand - something which singlefreakers or multifreq VLF’s can’t do and most exciting the ability to run at very short pulse delay in salt water. This is really exciting.

Why? You ask. Because no detector on the market can find small low conductors like earring backs, tiny 10k ornaments, etc in salt sand. No PI detector because they have too long a pulse delay and no VLF because balancing out the salt makes them bad at detecting bery small gold. All of that stuff is just waiting out there in the wet salt sand.

diggindaboot · Dec 27, 2017

lytle78 said:
First Texas hired Alexandre Tartare and acquired all rights to the intellectual property of the Manta project.

They are busy with a team in France turning it into a production machine.

There was no need to “sell assets” to do this. The clearance prices on existing detectors from First Texas are a result of a slow market in Detectors generally and a need to “clean house” when moving to their new 100,000 sq. Ft. Facility down the road from their existing one in El Paso.

No need for a meter on the Manta. It offers ferrous discrimination to good depth, not progressive discrimination like on a VLF discriminating detector. Of course, this will be a First in a production PI detector. Add that to a waterproof but handy mechanical design and it will be unique.

The other key characteristics are the ability to “see right through” black sand - something which singlefreakers or multifreq VLF’s can’t do and most exciting the ability to run at very short pulse delay in salt water. This is really exciting.

Why? You ask. Because no detector on the market can find small low conductors like earring backs, tiny 10k ornaments, etc in salt sand. No PI detector because they have too long a pulse delay and no VLF because balancing out the salt makes them bad at detecting bery small gold. All of that stuff is just waiting out there in the wet salt sand.

Was sure of this but couldn't remember the guys name.

And I want a METER, Lytle. LOL

Mountain Mike · Dec 27, 2017

Based on that video I would buy one if the price wasn't crazy. I can see the ad for this machine now " It obsoletes all VLF, FBS, and Multi IQ detectors"!

diggindaboot · Dec 27, 2017

Mountain Mike said:
Based on that video I would buy one if the price wasn't crazy. I can see the ad for this machine now " It obsoletes all VLF, FBS, and Multi IQ detectors"!