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Thought to throw this in Borax at Bunnings about $8 bucks a kilo.Hi spent the weekend in Sofala With Kleggy from Aussie Detectorist found this lock around 6" down. Just wanting the best way to clean it up, thanks
Borax is a good old-fashioned relatively safe ant killer: they eat it, it reacts with the acid in their gut and kills them. Other ants that eat the dead ones also die.Did the ant killing paste work?
I think you just use water.Do you mix it with anything? Sugar, honey etc?
Depending on the type of ants.Do you mix it with anything? Sugar, honey etc?
My first time ever detecting. I bought a Whites GMT DD E series and had a great time with my wife and friends. we also found bullets, casings, nails, and a horseshoe. Spent a few dollars in the town which it really needs.Thought to throw this in Borax at Bunnings about $8 bucks a kilo.
I was disloving some in a pot to make ant killer paste as soon as it hit boiling water it totally cleaned the stainless steel to a shine.
Pot is 12 months in use since but you can see the cleaned area.
Just a thought if you heated the lock up in the oven then dropped in a pot of borax/water mix it could work.
If you think the Find is Valuable then better advice i would seek.
Good one on the find Dusttodust all bought home from there was boot tacks, horse shoes & musket balls that i stupidly threw out.
It was common practice for the miners to fire off a musket every evening. They kept their muskets loaded at all times and apparently, when a musket stood unused all day, the powder packed- down inhibiting combustion. Since extracting the shot by any other means was very difficult, the miners would fire the musket in the air, clean the bore and reload so that there was reduced chance of a misfire.The musket balls i found were on that western slope near town .
Apprenty they let one off shot every evening at around Sundown i`m not shore of the exact time.
I`m only guessing but i`d say that hilly area has been worked over by VLF machines as like you i found lots of targets but no gold.
`i`m not shore but i think gpx machines would not run to well there with power lines & maybe some local folk kick`in in a genny once in a while.
SDC2300 / GPX 6000 / GPZ7000 my guess be the best detectors for that arera but i know nothing about Garrett and other brands.
There are nuggets around there that i know & some fairly nice folk to go with it.
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