Opinions on Compass 77b

[compass man]

Just picked one up with the 8" and 12" coils. Anyone that has used one I'd like some honest opinions and adivice on using the machine. Thanks!

[kt315]

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Posted by Gary on June 14, 2008, 12:04 am
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[Geo]

Just picked one up with the 8" and 12" coils. Anyone that has used one I'd like some honest opinions and adivice on using the machine. Thanks!

I worked it with the 8'' coil before some yers.
Very poor results

[Melbeta]

I liked that machine....

Just picked one up with the 8" and 12" coils. Anyone that has used one I'd like some honest opinions and adivice on using the machine. Thanks!

I worked it for a number of years, not with the 12" coil, but the normal 8" coil, found many things, plus two meteorites. It is very susceptable to iron. There is no one machine, that is 100% good for everything, which is why there are so many different machines and diff frequencies and coil sizes.

[Delbert grady]

!00 khz TR machine very loud with rubbish made un screened coils. Very popular in the past on UK thames foreshore and roman sites. Good at picking out small hammered and roman in amongst small iron. Paper thin coils were un screened and never lasted long. Ran on 12 AA in 3 pods awkward.

[Melbeta]

I am a Compass lover.....

!00 khz TR machine very loud with rubbish made un screened coils. Very popular in the past on UK thames foreshore and roman sites. Good at picking out small hammered and roman in amongst small iron. Paper thin coils were un screened and never lasted long. Ran on 12 AA in 3 pods awkward.

I started out with the old Yukon machines, and I found a lot of stuff. I dug every loud solid signal, as it did not discriminate. And I found a lot of so called hot rocks, and tossed them away. Then one day, was at big museum in Denver, and low and behold, those hot rocks I was tossing away, were meteorites!

After that, I save them. Only found two after that, but I still have them. An Mobil Oil geologist, who bought some old gold placer map information from me, said I was right, they indeed were meteorites.

And I always used coil covers, never wore out any coil bottoms. But some guys glued coffee can plastic covers, on the bottom of the coils, and wore them out instead, trying to save money on coil covers.

71b was better up in the mountains, looking for gold nuggets and relics and hot rocks (meteorites), and the 77b was better in the city parks and around house yards. The 77b did not respond as loud on iron, as the 71b did.

So I am a Compass lover, and a Teknetics and Bounty Hunter lover. I like the older Whites machines too, and some of the older Garrett machines, and some of the Fisher "X" machines. Back in the old days, I used a lot of brand new machines, to see how they worked, before I really ordered them in to sell them. If they did not please me, I did not stock and sell them. It is how I am, and how I am built. If I did not like it, I would not sell it. And I did favor the body mount units, if they were easily accessable for my eyes. Some were not. But Compass body mount units, were a real treat. I wish I had my old 77b body mount unit today. I was pulling old coins out of a Nebraska park, and another guy had a newer machine than mine, and he became frustrated, when he could not get the signal, then I dug up an old coin. Yes, they had a lot of batteries, but that did not bother me. More batteries means longer lasting detecting time.