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ribognome7
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/17/2009 : 03:25:27
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Hello from Phoenix, I'm new here. Been searching boxes by hand for about a year now. First off - I know next to nothing about metal dectectors. Are there settings on them to ignore some metals while detecting another - like silver? This would obviously be useful with boxes of paper rolled halves and dimes - just quicky pass them under the detector. If this is possible - anyone do this? Thanks.
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 03/17/2009 : 03:31:45
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| A good magnet can isolate rolls with Canadian pennies (steel only), nickels (except the CuNi ones), dimes and quarters. Don't know about metal detectors, but now you have me curious. |
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WIZARD1
Penny Sorter Member
USA
48 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2009 : 05:21:51
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| I use to have a metal detector the only way to tell what type of metal is the tone of the beep the detector makes and really from what i remember size of metal object is louder but all mnetals made the same noise |
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Somnophore
Penny Pincher Member
United Kingdom
161 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2009 : 10:32:41
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| My metal detector can be set to only search for specific types of metal, it's a petty high end one though by garett |
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1945V
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
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Posted - 03/17/2009 : 10:57:27
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Depending on the metal detector you have, you can ignore certain types of metal. Many detectors have a ferrous / non-ferrous (discriminator) control on them.
On the ferrous side, it will focus on iron, steel and iron based alloys.
On the non-ferrous side, it will focus more on silver, gold, copper, lead, nickel, aluminum, etc.
I think a typical metal detector would not be too useful for want you had in mind because both silver and nickel-copper coins are non-ferrous.
The discriminator feature is more useful when searching for coins on land full of nails, screws and other ferrous material. |
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 03/17/2009 : 16:38:59
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Copper and silver conduct about the same, so they would read very similar. So thats a big no about using a reg detector.
By the way picked up a Ace 250 to mess around, I will let you know when I get it if it works. |
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