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What's a good lightweight detector?

I have a Whites 6000 DI, but I haven't used it for a few years.
It has the ground balance switch broken right now, but I'm reluctant to get it repaired.
I have badly torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders, and this is a heavy machine.
If I replace it, I'd like to get something lighter, but still have the same quality.
I found a really great amount of coins and jewelry with this. No B.S., I literally followed other people with detectors and dug the many coins and rings they missed.
One summer, I took up more than $200 in pennies from one local park. When I took them to the bank, the bank wouldn't take them. Too many of the zinc ones were corroded.
Anyway, any comments on a lighter machine that is high quality and will pick up coins up to 9 or so inches deep appreciated.

Ray

Comments

  • Ray, I can't help you with the light weight detector although, I'm interested in what the responses will be because I might be in the market for a new detector myself.

    I wanted to comment on the bank not taking your corroded pennies. If you still have them, get some free penny wrappers from your local bank branch and wrap them up. If the teller unwraps them and sees they are corrored and again refuses them, tell her to call the closest Federal Reserve and ask if he/she can refuse them. The answer is, unless they are actually broken, they cannot be refused.

    Mary
    Be Still and Know
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do not know what is the lightest detector.. But the White's DFX is fairly light.. and if you get the sling to support it, there is virtually no weight at all. Second point, if the coin is identifiable, they have to take it. Cheers, RickO
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Troy Shadow X2 I used to have was featherweight and simple, yet one of the best deepseeking relic machines I've owned. With the 10.5" coil on it, it was still light, and I was poppin' 1880s Indian cents out from ten inches in one of the hard-hunted parks I've been hunting for twenty years.

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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you haven't cleaned the pennies run them through a rock tumbler first. That will clean up most of them.
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