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Thanks, can only try! If I do get it working I guess I'll have to go find something! Been fancying a trip to go Fossil hunting at the beach so could combine that with a test of the unit, but of course it depends on getting it fixed. That would provide me with another interesting post as well.

Yeah that would be a good finale to the series.

In Spain I would watch guys with detectors prowl the beach, near the shoreline in the evenings for jewelry I guess. One guy would do more than that though and he had a dive suit with a waterproof detector - presumably a good location for metals, and no-one else scouring that part of the bay :)