Roscoe said:I just wanted to know if you fella's have been happy with your sdc's. I have been holding off buying another detector for awhile now, but the sdc's seem to be selling for a good price now with the current specials.
I have read the Good and the not so good posts on here about them and i was hoping minelab would of ironed out all the bugs by now in them.
Anyway, I am still on the fence over this detector. Thought the SDC owners here could maybe get me off the fence and finally commit to one.
Too busy counting their gold :lol:Roscoe said:Come on i know how you Minelab Boys like to brag about ya machines.
In 10 months i've replaced the skid plates (approx $19 each) 3 or maybe 4 times due to wearing them through. During the cooler months i was detecting at least two days a week and those who have seen me detect know i get the coil on the ground and keep it there, i don't do much air swinging :lol:spikegold said:I love my sdc but will need to send it for repair as the speaker is crapping out and headphone jack is faulty and gives trippy erratic sounds that partially come through loud speaker whilst headphones are in. Also the skid plate sucks, have replaced 3 so far through hard use. Battery issue is crap but we'll known and easy fix. Apart from these issues it's a weapon! They will find gold
SCROUNGER said:In 10 months i've replaced the skid plates (approx $19 each) 3 or maybe 4 times due to wearing them through. During the cooler months i was detecting at least two days a week and those who have seen me detect know i get the coil on the ground and keep it there, i don't do much air swinging :lol:spikegold said:I love my sdc but will need to send it for repair as the speaker is crapping out and headphone jack is faulty and gives trippy erratic sounds that partially come through loud speaker whilst headphones are in. Also the skid plate sucks, have replaced 3 so far through hard use. Battery issue is crap but we'll known and easy fix. Apart from these issues it's a weapon! They will find gold
So for me being able to replace the coil skid plates makes a lot of sense and is just protective insurance against damaging the main coil disc.
So at say $80 for 4 replacement skid plate covers isn't an issue for me for at least 100 plus days at 5 hours detecting per day?
Just my thoughts on the skid plate covers
I've never folded my sdc up since i've had it goldwright, i just leave it open and carry in the truck ready to go. I do retract the shaft when i'm storing it at home though which i find is very helpful and on days when i'm detecting on undulating ground i do adjust the shaft to short and longer to suit. I'm not keen on the amount of force needed to collapse the unit completely but that's not from seeing any being broken, it just doesn't make sense to me for something to be designed where it's necessary to hit something hard and sharp to collapse it. I think the concept of designing something that collapses to enable ease of carrying on your back through tight scrub or for longer hikes before reaching your search area is a great idea but i personally don't know of anybody doing that.goldwright said:I reckon they should just put the SDC in the CTX-GPZ frame and get away from the folding idea and it would run with far less issues. The hole folding and attached coil design has put me off buying one from their release. The tech is very good if not ground breaking for small gold and it is proving it's self time after time. I don't own one but have worked along side one and could not believe how much better than the 5000 it was on small gold even with the comander 8 inch mono on.
Point taken mate. Perhaps there's a good 'technical' reason why they aren't thicker/stronger/tougher? Or perhaps there produced to wear through quickly to keep the after sales dollars turning over? :lol:spikegold said:SCROUNGER said:In 10 months i've replaced the skid plates (approx $19 each) 3 or maybe 4 times due to wearing them through. During the cooler months i was detecting at least two days a week and those who have seen me detect know i get the coil on the ground and keep it there, i don't do much air swinging :lol:spikegold said:I love my sdc but will need to send it for repair as the speaker is crapping out and headphone jack is faulty and gives trippy erratic sounds that partially come through loud speaker whilst headphones are in. Also the skid plate sucks, have replaced 3 so far through hard use. Battery issue is crap but we'll known and easy fix. Apart from these issues it's a weapon! They will find gold
So for me being able to replace the coil skid plates makes a lot of sense and is just protective insurance against damaging the main coil disc.
So at say $80 for 4 replacement skid plate covers isn't an issue for me for at least 100 plus days at 5 hours detecting per day?
Just my thoughts on the skid plate covers
That's fair play scrounger, I agree it's cheap enough to replace but I'd of thought minelab could make the cover out of something even more durable. Even brand new they are very flimsy at best, hold it up to the light and ya can see the outer edges are very thin.
Just about every time the machine goes out it easily finds double what a skid plate costs so not losing sleep over it
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