Saturday morning scuba diving : 2 rings - thanls to the storm!

[frogmaster-riviera]

18K gold, a few ices are missing, will have to test them...

Nice 26g 18k, very heavy, yellow and white gold. The yellow gold rotates on the white gold.

I've paid my new Iphone this morning...

Those 2 rings where found at -7m, scuba diving with CTX 3030. After a long period of sandy condition, the heavy rain and wind have washed the underwater surface....

 

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[OBN]

Nice 18k Honker!!

 

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[frogmaster-riviera]

Nice 18k Honker!!

Hi OBN! in here will call them "BOLTS" when they are heavy and "show off"

Don't forget your home work on my Excals mods this week end (...) + have you tried any Bone conductive phones on the Excal ?

 

[OBN]

Yes, have them about 50 percent made .. should be Monday..

Not that set but have made a few..this one was made for Scott in Florida.




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[OBN]

Worked on this today, I think your doing the same...

 

[Beach Papa]

Interesting discussion. I assume someone who lost a ring in water 7m deep was in a marina. I have thought about doing that before, but diving is not my thing, yet, although my son-in-law has offered to teach me..... The 18k ring is awesome.... I appreciate the link to your other post on modifying the CTX for better water proofing. I will have to give it a try. Happy Hunting!!

 

[AgeofDiscovery]

THAT IS AWESOME!!! Congrats! Great gold!!!!

 

[Lisarez66]

Gorgeous Rings

 

[detectahead]

Wonderful looking ring! Congrats!

 

[Sleepy]

Frog master, that's good information to know on how to make the CTX3030 more waterproof. I've been interested in the detector but have been waiting to see if Minelab is going to address that leaking problem and make some corrections. I'm sure there are many people here on the forum that use the CTX3030 who missed that post the first time and would like to know about your fix for it. What is the deepest you have taken yours without it leaking? Thanks for the information.

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

What is the deepest you have taken yours without it leaking? Thanks for the information.

My CTX had no leak issue yet, I don't want to be the beta tester of Minelab by playing with my own CTX, send me yours and I'll post a Youtub video "How deep CTX 3030 cracks under pressure"

About 2 years ago I've joined some friends in Italy for a "detection week end" on the Adriatic cost. I've traveled by car with my CTX for the beach and my Excalibur for scuba diving.
When I joined my teamates on the boat with my scuba equipments, there were all surprised that I took my Excal rather then the CTX for a <10m depth sea hunt.
They all asked me "is your CTX dead?", "no more batteries?", "can we help?"

I was amazed to see 3 CTX 3030 ready for diving sitting next to them. They've shown me their Mods and quickly gave me those o'rings and sealant.

To be honest, when I've jumped in the water with my CTX, I was sooooo scared..... I turned it on, slowly went underwater and start to detect: it was amazing to enjoy my CTX underwater, look at the screen, toggle between patterns

Those O'rings are sold in Italy by shops packaged with sillicon grease and advertized as "Minelab O'rings for CTX" : MINELAB KIT GRASSO SILICONICO E O-RING (14.8?) Accessori Metal Detectors Accessori Metal Detectors :: Accessori Minelab (EN)

Why does this solution is not "known" ? Maybe because most of CTX users are newbies and power users don't like to share with other their tips... I've never mentioned it on Euro forums for example

At the end of the day, CTX is NOT a scuba detector, it remains difficult to handle underwater, now for shallow huntings this mod might save your journee and makes you focus on other weaknesses of your CTX, such as:

- poor screen protection quality,
- Upper shaft need to be glued
- LCD Reliability ...

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

Yes, have them about 50 percent made .. should be Monday..

Not that set but have made a few..this one was made for Scott in Florida.


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Can you please PM some good links to find a godd stereo set of submersible bones earphones? I'm curerently using the one from Aquascan, but I accidently broke the cord

Tx!

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

Worked on this today, I think your doing the same...


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YES, and I'm very happy to have found "MR EXCALs" overseas!

I won't use M-12 8 pins CTX connectors, I'll use connectors from Fischer, they will seal them for me in their Swiss base factory on all my Excals and CTX coils, including the replacement of all the connectors of my CTX:




They can be plugged / unplugged even if submerged ! rated for 3000m depth

 

[The Urban Prospector]

Love the gold! TFS & HH!

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

Nice finds and mod on the CTX. The gold ring is called a spinner.

Thanks for the English term, I'll have to get use to it

Here's an other picture taken from the shore, just after the hunt



...I could wait to send the finds to my detecting friends by SMS to put little pressure on them: "today's roundup level will be slightly higher"

 

[lorraine]

WOW!! That first pic is a "sparkler"

Both rings are beautiful finds!

Congrats on fine detecting!

Lorraine