In retrospect l am pretty certain that is it. Bed time? Hell its early! Right now l am lying in the bath eating a block of cheese and amusing myself looking through this site while eating wine biscuits and a block of cheese.
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Living the dream Lammerlaw…don’t forget to feed some biscuits to the bath duck…lol!
I’m loving the gold porn, keep it coming! @kiwijw you definitely seem to be the one that gets out there the most, thanks for sharing! Hopefully I’ll have some to post very shortly.
Fuck the ducks…only kids have ducks in the bath. Real men have a wee play in the bath! Haven’t you ever had a wee play in the bath?
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For the first time in ten years l had a look at what l thought was my ‘as new’ xtreme. It isnt as new as l thought it was due to my sons use of it. As for me I tried it once and I have found nothing with it…zilch, nada!
Yes you are right about the coil. See how my son made the ‘quick change’ battery for long periods away. Ten second battery swap without getting an entire new battery. Mine lab must make a killing out of selling batteries taking into account the price my son paid for the motorbike one. I should sell this detector as no one uses it, it’s just a bloody ornament clogging up the hallway!
He paid it off several times over…but I saw nothing of it and paid for it initially.
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Hey Lammerlaw anychance ya could send us a txt just been reading a few posts about a place uve talked about just down the road and just want to pick ya brains on it if you wouldnt mind 0278505557 cheers
Send me a private message on this site and I will see if I can give you an answer
those old dd coils were dynamite
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I only ever use mono coils as our ground is insanely mild & the coils I show above are monos.
JW 
is that the joey coil mate? yeah i only run monos too unless im digging around rubbish filled shafts from the old timers. thought it was the treasureseeker dd that came out around the time of the GPextreme.
man i’m spewin we didn;t get over this year covid mucked up our plans. fingers crossed us qlders will be allowed to come visit in the near future
Yer mate the Coiltek joey mono in the above pics. But loved monos in general on my PI’s . Currently using the Russian made X coils on my Zed. Brilliant coils. X coils have given us coils for the Zed that minelab never did. Smaller coils than Minelabs smallest 14" coil. 10", 12", 15x10. They can get places the ML 14" cant & find gold the ML 14" missed. The X coils have brought my old haunts back to life.
Yer covid is a real bastard.
Best of luck out there mate.
JW
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thats awesome mate, i havent made the jump to a Z yet, i still love my 4500 i’ll sell that soon and grab the 6000 id say. i dont get enough time lately to get out onto new ground and most of my go to spots are in the triangle in victoria being a Ballarat lad
I would skip the 6000 & get a Z. Best gold detector ever. I loved my 4500 & still have it but haven’t used it since getting a Z which I have had now for 3 years. Actually have a standard 4500 & a Woody modded one. If you get a Z you need to get a couple of the smaller X coils. I would say the 10" & the 15x10. The only bugger about the X coils is that you need to make, or have made, the adaptor patch lead to get the Minelab electronic chip so the X coils will be accepted by the Detector. I bought a 19" Minelab coil, as they were going reasonably cheap,& chopped the end off that which has the chip & screw connector where the coil screws into the detector when you change coils from the 14" to the 19". Here are some pics of the doing the job.
Cutting the connection off the 19" coil. Brand new & never been used.
10x9 X coil NZ T1 (New Zealand Test 1)
15x14 X coil NZ T2 (New Zealand Test 2)
Completed connection adaptor. Once you have this you can fit it to any X coil to fit to the Zed. By fitting a connection back on to the Minelab19" coil you can then still use that coil. And of course you can still use the ML 14" coil as it still has the chip connection on it.
15x14 X coil fitted to the Z & a 12" & the 10"
JW
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Hi guys. Went out for a quick afternoon detect on sunday among the snow flurries with the Zed & the 15x10 X coil here in Queenstown.
Managed just three littilies for bang on half a gram 
Not quitting my day job. 
Good luck out there
JW
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beautiful man was thinking of getting a kiln and a personalised stamp
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While I love nuggets, flakes and fine gold are just a pain to deal with. It’s very satisfying handling a gold ingot that you’ve found the gold for and made yourself.
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Its actually VERY NICE gold and honestly I prefer it to most nuggets. A bottle full of small flakey gold looks really nice. That is similar to Lindis gold and I would be as happy as a sandboy finding that. Maybe I prefer that type of gold to nuggets because its 99.9 percent nuggets I have found over the years and very little fine gold.
It’s from down Roxburgh ways…