You are correct Chuck. The coil is removable. That sounds like a pretty good idea. I built my first metal detector from scratch and it worked pretty well. There are a couple of local clubs that have years of experience using metal detectors. I may try to contact one of them and see what they think. Thanks for the idea. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuckhards@yahoo.com> To: <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Meteorites on the Salt Flats
The "head", or coil, on most metal detectors is removeable.
For some of you hardware guys, why couldn't we wind our own induction coil, make it about ten or fifteen feet wide, connect it to a standard metal detector, and mount it on the front of a truck?
Then a grid could be "driven-off" with much greater speed. Any detections could be followed-up by another team with a standard detector and shovel.
Chuck
--- Larry Frisk <lkfrisk@earthlink.net> wrote:
Thanks for the link Paul. I was a bit disappointed at by the statement that a metal detector is not an effective tool to use because that was what I had planned to use.
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