Funny not 2 mins ago I bought the LG35 coil on amazon. Going down to the coast next month for a metal detecting, fishing, and horseback riding on the beach extravaganza. Planning it now.
I'm curious to hear your opinion of the Legend so far in your area and conditions. Do you feel it is better in one category or another vs what you were using before?
Are you still running the stock/factory settings or have you played around a little bit?
One thing that seemed to help me and it was more personal than anything else was adjusting the tone break points and the tone pitch and volume of each tone break point. My ears are not what they used to be and all those years of loud music, loud engines, motorcycles and other things do pose a problem. It's been good for me to have something like the Legend where I have been able to totally customize to what my ears and brain understand it's telling me.
This may sound strange to you and others but something else I have done is to take various targets both good and bad and toss them on my floor at home in the dark..
Yes, there are nails, pipes, and other things under everyone's home. This has allowed me to further keep connected to the Legend when the weather was bad, when I got home too late to do anything, etc. You would be surprised how difficult it can be in the total dark to try and find that good target among a common house floor. It also helped me further tweak my settings that would allow unmasking. Yes, it's an air test. And no it is not in the ground but at the very least it helped me a lot to pre-tune the Legend. Sort of like priming the oil pump on a new engine build or getting your first initial timing settings.
I'm very particular about the cabling too. I learned early on that if the cable is moving around it will also give falses. So I've worked on that some too. And while it may be considered overkill and unnecessary I took some 3M Temflex and wrapped it around the cable where it meets the coil to add more protection to that very critical bend. It's working for me and I don't worry so much about using my detector around straggly grass and smaller bush things.
I also developed some wobble in the shaft. But took a look and found it to be a combo of what seems to not be enough pad material on the cam engagement surface and also the cam assembly itself not fitting very tightly on the shaft material. I removed the cams and built the area up a little where the cam plastic tang locks into the shaft itself. The tolerances were quite loose there but not anymore. Just nitpicking really on my part but this thing is the way I want it. No wobble, no play now.
I will give Whites one thing, their units back in the day were built very strong. I don't think anyone today has the tolerances they did nor the build quality at their peak. All I did was try to very cheaply and easily make tiny little improvements to the Legend shaft and securing mechanism to get close to that old Whites shaft system strength yet make it easily reversible/removeable back to factory with no permanent changes.
The Legend has been a heck of a unit for me. It may be my last detector. I surely don't plan on buying any others.
