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“If you lie often enough and big enough, people will start to believe you.” Sadly that is the way of the modern world in politics, advertising and media.

Not at all Northeast, Relatively new to the 6 and learning by experience. Like most guys I’m a “who needs to read a manual guy” and hadn’t read that the soil button was a way of turning on threshold in auto and vice versa turning it off in manual. I actually prefer to have the threshold off and...

“We know they are lying. They know they are lying. We know they know they are lying. They know we know they know they are lying. But they are still lying” Alexander Solzenitzyn.

Up at Wedderburn for the first time since before COVID. Decided to give Queens gully a go and alas it looks like a moonscape with holes and scrapes everywhere. Perservered with the 6 and ended the day with 7 bits for a total of 0.4gr. Running in auto1, small signals just don’t sound like...

Caravanning in the GT this week. Left our kitchen knife at home. Looking to get an inexpensive replacement, We tried a Woolies in Bendigo but they had none among all the other kitchen stuff. Went into two nearby op shops and they had none either. Spoke to one of the managers at one and was told...

The 5000 has all the settings of the 4500 plus more especially the Fine Gold setting which a lot of people prefer due to diminishing shallow nugget supplies following years of detecting. It still has the same settings for depth available as the 4500 if people would choose to use them but most...

There are cheaper ones available from our Chinese friends on Temu and Aliexpress I think too. Maybe also check on eBay or Amazon too. I bought the one pictured below on Temu for $75 which also included 4 rechargeable 18650 lithium batteries and a USB charging cable. It is a 120W 365 nm...

Try the big mono and see if it the symptoms persist or better borrow another DD and try that. If you are in luck the symptoms may disappear and it may be just a matter of buying a replacement coil. If not, at least you have isolated the problem to a control box issue. Try your local detector...

Well done! So often we just let things happen instead of making an effort with the resources available to consumers.

So many opinions about so many things. Us mortals are made to feel humbled by the opinions of our educated and PHD'd intelligentia. We get it every day on our TVs and other media. Saw this recently and maybe our intellectual elites should also view it to keep their egos into perspective...

Bring the 14” DD. October is the wettest month in Vic and you are likely to run into wet mineralised ground, horrible conditions for mono coils on a 6000. Also man made EMF is more prevalent in the Vic goldfields than you may realise. Whilst the 6000 can pick up deeper nuggets, the skewing of...

Why I like Temu. Not to do with prospecting but pictured are some 3/8” stainles steel spikes that screw into the bottom of the Carbon Fibre tripod for my astronomy gear. The original spikes were lost or misplaced and I needed them to stabilise the tripod on potentially slippery surfaces...

Just joking, go for it.

Gary, Quartzy ground with ironstone edging down to a shallow watercourse. I’d be only too happy to check it out for you, if you’d tell me where it is. Geoff LOL.

Agree with Phase tech on those. Detecting in WA also requires coverage of large tracts of ground, and you need to be able to cover those tracts for long periods without tiredness creeping in to spoil your technique and concentration. When that happens, you lose the ability to pick up on targets...

Hi Lisa. I would be very disappointed if someone from our group would not volunteer to help you find the lost earring. We mostly do what we do for fun and satisfaction not financial reward. I am sure you have looked very hard yourself, but there is something you could do to help any detectorist...

Some diamonds will also glow blue under UV light even though all may look the similar to the naked eye. It is highly unpredictable and from appearance one cannot tell which diamonds will fluoresce and which not. On average about a quarter (25%) of diamonds will show some degree of fluorescence...

74 just a pup! Never let your brain tell you what your body can’t do, just how to do it.

Was one of my intentions on our last trip across the treeless. Had researched some nullabor meteorite strewn fields (areas where many pieces of a larger meteorite that explodes in the atmosphere fall to earth). Unfortunately had some caravan issues that caused us to make a beeline for Kalgoorlie...

Replacing a front gate post. Old one was damaged recently when a gust of wind swung one side of our double gates shut and split the old post. Bugger of a job getting the old post out but finally got a new one concreted in. Now waiting for the concrete to cure before re-attaching the side fence...