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My Garrett Ace 250 just arrived

I just recharged my batteries.

Awesome, you have made the right decision in purchacing the 250. It is the better machine all round.

Happy Hunting

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Iv found heaps of good stuff with my ACE250!good machine!

Gezzz guys what ever happened to backing a fella who is showing enthusiasm?
Pretty sure we were all pretty excited when our machines first arrived... I know I was!

Hope you are enjoying your new machine and have had some cool finds.

I borrowed a 250 for a short while last year and found all sorts of very cool stuff, three gold jewelery pieces and a few silver coins to mention but some. First off on half sensitivity, I would walk about with it in jewelery mode (after reading all the posts I could find here) and when I got a repeatable signal(s) put it in all metal mode to get a feel for what it was, and dug if not iron or supermarket trolly or car parts. By digging all (smallish,definable) targets to start off you will quickly get an ear for what might be what. Also I found, Ace likes ground that is quite damp. I found signals shallower and confused in some very dry ground. When it starts to get too noisy decrease sensitivity to three/four bars. The pin point on it is pretty good. Mind the curved arm rest, they seem to be the first thing to go, my mate had to reinforce the inside of his with cut up pvc pipe. One signal, over ground I thought I had thoroughly hunted, at 5-6in, sure it was a penny, and it was.....until I flipped it over and there be a near mint 1933 half crown literally stuck to it! happy hunting and looking forward to seeing what you find :)

if your arf cuff does break give carol pritchard at garrett U.S.A. an email she,l sort out a free replacement part for you if your machine is still under waranty!good to see there,s a few more ACE model detectors seeing some action lately!

That's interesting about the cuffs mine had a hammering and never had an issue.

But if you have a break out of warranty (doesn't seem to matter for Garrett though) then read this thread on another forum.
Guy basically uses a cut down piece of pvc pipe, looks like it did the trick.

I did have a very small issue with my ATG cuff, the screw underneath worked out and it came apart so wasn't a big deal replacing the screw.

http://www.treasurenet.c...keeps-breaking-help.html

Yeah thanks guys, I havent been on here recently because I have been busy using my detector, but all i can find is bottle caps, nails and junk (but sayinf that i am on all metal mode) is there a recomended mode I hould use to block all this out and any places I should be going to eg: a old school yard...

Thanks
Dylan

I hunt in all metal mode always, unless the going is too hard i might switch to jewellery mode, very rare.
I hunt in all metal mode for two reasons. A, you can hear the iron signals which help in determining the target ie; a beerlid. B, The ace tells you what the target is, why drown the sound signal out, you have to look at the screen too much then.

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