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« on: September 01, 2015, 03:14:17 pm »
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Who knows details of or has experience with the White's TM 808 detector?

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« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2015, 10:52:21 pm »
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Who knows details of or has experience with the White's TM 808 detector?


Not many folks here use them, It's next on my list, but you might go to the Whites forum they have a few posts there about them,

good luck,,,  RR

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« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2015, 11:03:48 pm »
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Thank you Ridge Runner. I was hoping someone from our forum had experience with this detector. I seen them on Ebay as low as $550 used. Once you have one of the TM 808, how far are you willing to dig down, 5, 10 or maybe 15 feet? Take care.

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Thank you Ridge Runner. I was hoping someone from our forum had experience with this detector. I seen them on Ebay as low as $550 used. Once you have one of the TM 808, how far are you willing to dig down, 5, 10 or maybe 15 feet? Take care.


There are some good videos on YT on how to use it and set it up, but you and me are the only ones who have shown any interest in it, but it will be my next machine that I buy, after the next one turns up,

On the newer model of the 808 they have done away with the cave mode which bothers me a bit,, but saying that if the machine works by reading the minerals in the ground, Then if there is A Void under ground then it should not make a difference to it alerting you that a void is there because the threshold would rise as the ground balance would be lost due to the lack of soil, etc.

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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2015, 10:25:49 am »
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Hi Ridge Runner.

Please let me know once you got one of this detectors. I would be curious to know if you could modify it and put a conventional type search head on it, maybe with modified coil dimensions/properties.

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« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2015, 11:54:20 am »
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Hi Ridge Runner.

Please let me know once you got one of this detectors. I would be curious to know if you could modify it and put a conventional type search head on it, maybe with modified coil dimensions/properties.


I don't see why you can't change the coil over but you would loose some depth, What exactly do you want to achieve because all you will end up with is A 5khx Detector like minelab musketeer Advantage / Minelab Relic Hawk, because they ran at the same frequency, and if depth iis the thing you are after there are other ways around that,??

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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2015, 06:56:25 pm »
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Hi Ridge Runner:

May be the price would be lower if you thinker with the TM 808 compared with the price of Minelab detectors.
What I will go after is seasonally dry riverbeds looking for gold flakes and may be small nuggets buried under the sand may be less than2 inches deep.

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May be the price would be lower if you thinker with the TM 808 compared with the price of Minelab detectors.
What I will go after is seasonally dry riverbeds looking for gold flakes and may be small nuggets buried under the sand may be less than2 inches deep.


Those 2 minelabs I listed will only cost a couple of hundred dollars,

the 808 won't be any good for gold it is too lower frequency,

if it is just for searching river beds for gold you have thousands of other options out there for you.

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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2015, 09:31:49 pm »
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Hi Ridge Runner:

May be the price would be lower if you thinker with the TM 808 compared with the price of Minelab detectors.
What I will go after is seasonally dry riverbeds looking for gold flakes and may be small nuggets buried under the sand may be less than2 inches deep.


Not trying to bust your bubble, or discourage you from your task, but you need to know a little more about gold. Gold is extremely heavy. Even the smallest of pieces will sink to the lowest level. Gold in sand sinks pretty fast. Gold in a seasonal streambed gets pushed to the bottom even faster especial when the water is running. Your best chance for finding gold nuggets with a metal detector, is on hillsides where they float closer to the surface as the get dislodged or weathered from the host rock. Good luck to you.

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