Night detecting with the Explorer SE Pro

[Goldpick]

They are a good idea, I bought VST coin album with various sized pockets and with paper backing pages to write down any coin details. Or you can get coin specific albums for florins etc, which might be a better idea, as my album is getting damned heavy. Better than having the sit in a container.

 

[silver]

I'm going to go with the specific albums for all the best ones, and just upgrade them as I get better coins to replace them each time, as I already have the pocket ones and snaplocks full of tissue wrapped ones.

They are a good idea, I bought VST coin album with various sized pockets and with paper backing pages to write down any coin details. Or you can get coin specific albums for florins etc, which might be a better idea, as my album is getting damned heavy. Better than having the sit in a container.

 

[Goldpick]

Here's a few silvers that were cleaned up via electrolysis. You can either leave them in there for a while to rid the coins of any black residue, or give them a reasonable bath, then a cleanup with some silvo or similar. I just used of my spare power adapters sitting around the place, seems to do the job.

I am only using rock salt, as the missus cracked a wobbly when I used up all the table salt - obviously table salt is much easier to dissolve.

Works well on coppers too, just have to keep an eye on them. This 1972 2c only took a few minutes to clean up, followed by a bit of brasso.

 

[treasureman]

Done the job nicely bud.
The 2 cent is in perfect press condition despite the hole.
I came across a mint 2 cent from 1966, and also an almost mint condition 1967 20c peace.
We had heaps of rain last night, so i just may hit a park tonight

 

[Sandta]

Gday GP, pictures can be deceiving , but that bolt looks either stainless or zinc plated ... Neither of which is recommended... From what ive read... Still havent tried electrolysis.

 

[Goldpick]

Gday GP, pictures can be deceiving , but that bolt looks either stainless or zinc plated ... Neither of which is recommended... From what ive read... Still havent tried electrolysis.

I know what you mean, but it's neither, just new. Here it is rusting nicely after a few short sessions of electrolysis.

 

[Sandta]

Never doubted you for a second :lol:
Cheers

 

[Goldpick]

Good to see we are looking out for each other Sandta, I think I am getting a bit high sniffing too much brasso anyway, that stuff is really fumy.

 

[Goldpick]

Not much coming up at the beach last night, covered a fair bit of ground too. Unfortunately the ring is only stainless, but the dodge ram is 100% genuine hot wheels!

 

[Goldpick]

Not wanting to go far tonight, I had a quick wander over a well thrashed park with the 10x5" coil to see what I could come up with. There weren't a hell of a lot of good targets around, but still managed to pull out a nice Oz military forces button (Stokes & Son), and another ring, a silver plate junker unfortunately.

 

[silver]

Smooth looking button GP, is the loop on the back nice as well ?

 

[Goldpick]

Unfortunately the shank is long gone, still in pretty good nick though.

 

[silver]

makes you wonder GP whether or not you could slip a rounded bit of copper wire back into it to make it whole again. ?

 

[Goldpick]

Tonight I went off in search of silvers, with the explorer being the choice detector for the task. Found yet another local park which I never knew existed, and it looked pretty damned old, with some nice looking old trees to detect around. I had a few bits of junk before picking up two good readings around the base of one of the larger trees. First target was a worn 1917 sixpence, and on the other side, a very clean 1922 threepence - not a rare overdate version unfortunately. I don't have either coin in my album yet, so pretty happy with that.

I ran with the small Joey elliptical coil, thinking there would be the usual smattering of iron and junk targets, but it was actually very quiet ground. So may head back with the Pro coil to see if any deeper targets pop up.

 

[Ramjet]

That 3p is in great condition.

 

[Goldpick]

It certainly is, only needed a light cleaning with bi-carb, whereas the sixpence had blackened a fair bit. Ended up doing a light session of electrolysis on the sixpence, and then the coating cokes off easily with some more bi-carb.

 

[Goldpick]

Had another stab at the old house site tonight, but I think I have pretty much cleqned the place up now with regards to coins. Only finds were a 1957 penny, 1c coin, a round copper belt buckle and an old door knob - the rest is just assorted junk from around the site. Time to move on elsewhere next outing.

 

[Goldpick]

I thought it would be interesting to hit a local spot with the Explorer after covering the same area with two other detectors. Considering what I found, it just goes to show that it's quite hard to comprehensively clean out a spot, even after successive visits. Only need one pre-dec to make my night, on this occasion it was a 1918 Penny in pretty average condition.

This spot is near the old house site I was detecting recently, and surprisingly, I am yet to find a single silver coin here despite quite a few hunts. There is always the possibility that it has already been cherry picked for silvers by others previously, if so, they should have been more considerate and left some florins behind.

 

[Goldpick]

Had a bit more luck tonight on the Pre-dec front around an oval extremities, ended up scratching yet another penny, which was frustratingly hard to retrieve from under a root system - at least it wasn't a key date of any sort. Other coins found were a 1926 half penny, 1936 half penny, and a 1946 sixpence. Also plenty of the usual bb's, and a nice little Spanish Conquistador figure to finish off with.

 

[Ramjet]

Another good night out. What's the Lion thingy?