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This little nugget of whatever took me about an hour to track down. The weird thing about it is this. I have an MXT but have only been using it for a few days. In all modes, disc set to lowest, gain set to highest and then all over the place, this object makes the hum go away, from even 2 feet from the coil. I put it over a piece of concrete with rebar and it shielded the hum from the rebar too, okay I know i'm a newbie, but what is this stuff? I have some limited metallurgical knowledge, BUT this one baffles me. It responds to a magnet, but actually repels my detector. It has smooth surfaces that resemble quartz, but they have a burned look to them, almost melted there. How I came about it? Within 20 yards of the barracks of Nike missle site M-86, no joke, will take pics of the building and the missle storage entryways. I have just never seen a field nullified by another object before. some pieces broke off, they respond the same way, only on a smaller scale. There is one edge, on the right side of the object in the pic that is a perfect 45 degree angle. A protrusion that is about 1/4 " deep resembling a corner is there. On one side, the quartz type stuff. On the other, scratches resembling either small scale fossils or scratches from a pick or something, they are mixed lengths and cover that side. I will take better pics...... Reason I state that it looks like there is a corner, it almost looks like it was cut or manmade. HELP!!!!!!! I'll wait for advice before doing anything with it. As long as it doesn't glow in the dark i'm cool with it. Any help appreciated, mucho mucho.
Brian Sutter
This little nugget of whatever took me about an hour to track down. The weird thing about it is this. I have an MXT but have only been using it for a few days. In all modes, disc set to lowest, gain set to highest and then all over the place, this object makes the hum go away, from even 2 feet from the coil. I put it over a piece of concrete with rebar and it shielded the hum from the rebar too, okay I know i'm a newbie, but what is this stuff? I have some limited metallurgical knowledge, BUT this one baffles me. It responds to a magnet, but actually repels my detector. It has smooth surfaces that resemble quartz, but they have a burned look to them, almost melted there. How I came about it? Within 20 yards of the barracks of Nike missle site M-86, no joke, will take pics of the building and the missle storage entryways. I have just never seen a field nullified by another object before. some pieces broke off, they respond the same way, only on a smaller scale. There is one edge, on the right side of the object in the pic that is a perfect 45 degree angle. A protrusion that is about 1/4 " deep resembling a corner is there. On one side, the quartz type stuff. On the other, scratches resembling either small scale fossils or scratches from a pick or something, they are mixed lengths and cover that side. I will take better pics...... Reason I state that it looks like there is a corner, it almost looks like it was cut or manmade. HELP!!!!!!! I'll wait for advice before doing anything with it. As long as it doesn't glow in the dark i'm cool with it. Any help appreciated, mucho mucho.
Brian Sutter