butter Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Hey I am new to the site and I thought I would post my first find in my attempts to find a meteorite in West Virginia. http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w71/but...=DSC_0071-1.jpg I am just excited to have something else to look for other than wheat pennies with my Whites. But after 10+ hours of searching I am realizing they are infinitely more elusive that a wheat pennies. My question is I have seen modified or homemade coils for metal detectors they look like a flat square PVC box people are just dragging around behind them. Does anyone know how to build one or possibly a book or a site? The other question is how fast does the average iron meteorite decay in the environment that I live in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regmaglitch Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Hi Butter, Your stone doesn't appear to be a meteorite. Have you streak tested it yet? The large square coils in PVC are for use with a deep pulse induction type detector, not a VLF unit. Your detector will be more sensitive to chondrites when you manually ground balance. Auto ground will tune them out. Keep on hunting, you can find that first meteorite. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butter Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 no i didn't streak test it after I cut in to it i realized it was not a medroite. i just need to find more information on a induction pulse metal detector searching with a hand healed unit is slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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