Tutorials for Metal Detectorists 30+ Helpful How-To's Containing Detailed Instructions and Practical Tips for Hobby Enthusiasts of All Levels of Experience 99% of tutorials listed below are original content that you will not find anywhere else on the web. Although my instructive articles only cover a small fraction of a myriad of issues detectorists have to resolve on a regular basis, I believe that my tutorials will help you solve the most important problems related to metal detecting, search strategies, target cleaning and more!
30+ Tutorials and How-To's for Metal Detectorists: NOTE : Not all pages are mobile-friendly yet, but their reconstruction is under way. Please be patient. Thank you for your understanding!
1. "Entry-Level" Tutorials in Secrets For Beginners Section:
Be Aware of Fake Expert Websites, Blogs and Videos about Metal Detecting and Equipment! This is an important note to beginner-detectorists seeking helpful info on the Web. My note warns the newbies against getting influenced by misleading info contained in untruthful web articles, paid reviews and forum posts, and promotional YouTube videos massively published on the Internet.The Best Way to Mount a Wireless Headphone Transmitter onto Your Land Metal Detector This is my latest tutorial on how to make your headphone operation wireless with use of the up-to-date universal wireless-headphones system designed to work with any land metal detector, and create a protection for your enclosed wireless transmitter against dust, mud, and light rain by means of a simple setup that would cost you only $2.50.How To Make Any Land Metal Detector's Headphone Operation Wireless This is my old tutorial (2013) instructing how to turn any regular land metal detector into a machine with wireless headphone operation by means of an INDOOR digital wireless headphone system, and metal detect without a "leash" or the hassle of cords.Sealing Search Coil's Cover This illustrated tutorial explains how to eliminate the unusual cause of false or distorted signals.Search Coil Swinging Techniques This chapter of the "Search Coil 101" guide contains descriptions of coil-swinging techniques used for effective target detection under various metal detecting conditions or according to certain metal detecting tasks.Fast Method of Pinpointing Coins without a Hand-Held Pinpointer This tutorial is under development.Air Test (Bench Test) This article explains the "Air Test" concept, and why it is important to learn both the VDI values of various targets commonly found in your locality and your detector's audio responses to them. Construct Your Test Garden This article explains importance, construction and usage of your own Test Garden for experimenting with various target-samples. How to Metal Detect Successfully Learn the basics of metal detecting; some useful tips are included.How To Manually Ground Balance Your Detector This tutorial explains how to properly ground-balance a metal detector. 2. Other Tutorials Related to Metal Detectors and Metal Detecting:
How To Silence Hot Rocks Get detailed information on "hot rocks", their types and compositions, and ways to reduce or completely eliminate the detector's audio responses to them. How To Metal Detect Around Cellar Holes Successfully This is a complete guide based on my personal experience in searching the abandoned homesteads in the remote wooded areas of Upstate New York. Information given in this article can be also useful for those detectorists who treasure hunt at the former homestead sites containing no cellar holes. How To Locate and Recover a Coin Cache in the Old Farm Field This illustrated tutorial is based on my personal cache-hunting and treasure-discovering experiences in farm fields that were the sites of human settlements centuries ago.How To Use Minelab XChange 2 This detailed, illustrated tutorial explains how to use Minelab XChange 2 application for editing CTX 3030's Discrimination patterns and Tone ID profiles. Body Reinforcement of Minelab Explorer, E-Trac and Safari This illustrated tutorial shows how to reinforce a body of a metal detector of the Minelab Explorer series, so that it would remain in one piece for a long time. 3. Tutorials in Coin Cleaning Section:
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5. Tutorials in XP Deus Section:
How To Make Two XP Deuses from One This article explains how to make two Deuses from one so that your partner could join you in metal detecting fun! XP Deus Manual Ground Balancing This tutorial covers three techniques (beginner-, intermediate- and expert-level) that can be used for proper ground-balancing an XP Deus metal detector.How To Prevent Breakage and Malfunction of a Charging Clamp This small article describes a serious drawback in the Deus' battery-charging system, and how to deal with it. My Alternative to the XP Deus Charging-Clamp Setup This tutorial is under development.Fine-Tune XP Deus for Detecting Deep Coins This tutorial is under development. Switch-To-Low-Frequency Technique This article is under construction.Coin Map for XP Deus Search Programs This tutorial is under development. 6. Other Informative Directories:
In Brief: All Tutorials are created by Sergei UpstateNY , last time modified: December 28, 2022
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