Locating a Metal Detector

[pspope]

I am looking for info on a metal detector manufactured in South America, it is a metal box about 6"x 8"x 3", with a antenna on top that looks like a small (6") satellite dish, I think it swivels on the handle. It is suppose to be good for distance detection of gold and silver at a depth of several feet. If anyone has any info on this I would like to hear from you. pspope

 

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post a picture if possible. does it have any markings?/

 

[Paul T.]

I am looking for info on a metal detector manufactured in South America, it is a metal box about 6"x 8"x 3", with a antenna on top that looks like a small (6") satellite dish, I think it swivels on the handle. It is suppose to be good for distance detection of? gold and silver at a depth of several feet. If anyone has any info on this I would like to hear from you. pspope

The detector is a variety of the controversial type. The concept is that it can point to treasure from miles away, or even on a map. It uses the same principle as water witching (water dowsing) in which the user delicately holds a swiveling item(s) and when the items swivel, it indicates treasure.

The concept is that the user has a power that is chanelled through the hands and into the device, thereby unconsciously influencing when and where it swivels to.

That unconscious manipulation is said to come from your body's ability to sense (fill in the blank...gold, silver, etc) and then make the pointer point that way.

My opinion is that it's pure hocus pocus. I mean, who knows...there may be a human ability to find water just as horses are known to scratch a hoof at the dirt if there's water below. But the detectors you refer to are basically nothing more than battery power level meters for checking batteries. There's no real circuitry in them that performs any real function. And for these toys, manufacturers often charge thousands of dollars.

If you go here you can see a pic of one such device if you click on the first one (Precision Master Rod III). It has a handle on a swivel and a looped antennae on top:
http://www.dowsingrods.net/

It's a scam and they charge in the thousands of dollars range for them. They are meant to capitalize on people's sometimes unrealistic belief in supernatural powers. That unreasonable belief is chanelled towards an unreasonable purchase costing upwards of a thousand dollars or two thousand dollars. Or so the manufacturers hope.

There are other scientific instruments, by contrast, however, that can detect large deposits of metal from a mile away or so, but that's not the same as the instrument you are referring to.
Paul T.

 

[gldhntr]

i noticed the smiley face mr lord. while i understand this site deletes freely and that is your right, this is a forum, and people with questions do deserve answers. it may be something that was left to them in some thoughtful relatives will, that they know absolutely nothing about, and came here just looking for an honest answer. imagine the embarrasment if they were to say, without knowing, list this item on e-bay for say $1.00... no-one is trying to sell or push or purchase this product.. just my smart %$# two cents worth on the subject.......to me it is a whole lot worse to advertise that you have equipment for use or rent on here and then ignore requests for info regarding performance,and rental of said units.....but thats okay as there are many people out there that don't mind doing business with what some self proclaimed know it alls evidentally consider to be undesirables........