Another visit to the same beach today, there's no sign of the sand returning yet and I had another bumper harvest. I did have a mishap though. I was a good 5 hours into it when a chap came along and stopped for a chat. I put my C.Scope CS4PI down leaning on a rock and unbeknown to me it rolled over and half the control box was dipped in a small rock pool. When we finished chatting I bent down to pick my machine up and that's when I noticed it. Water was running out the jack socket. It powers up but with no sound now. I have it drying out in a warm room and hoping, I know its a long shot, that its fine in the morning.
I was using my C.Scope today because yesterday evening as I went to charge my battery up on my Velox One the actual charger burnt out, as I switched it on there was a little puff of smoke, a smell of burning and a heat blister appeared on the charger. I'm waiting to here from Nokta on that one.There is still some charge left on the velox so I am not without a machine at the mo. Plus I always have my trusty Ace 250 to fall back on.
Anyway, that's the bad news, the good news was that I had another good day (before my mishap). Managed to find another 92 coins and some other bits that I was pleased with.Total finds are shown in the top photo. I was hoping to smash my total coins record of 97 which I found a couple of days ago but it wasn't to be.
A lot of decimal and old pennies and halfpennies turned up again, but I found two firsts from this beach. A lovely half crown dated 1948 in the center and a silver threepence dated 1922 above it.. Also pictured are 2 x one shilling and 7 x sixpences.
I was very pleased with the cap badge of the Royal Engineers. A lead sportsman minus his head and a foot. A tiny silver cross and a tiny Torquay charm marked silver on the back. Also a black cat brooch.
I'm just wondering what I can bribe my missus with this time to have another crack tomorrow. As the sand is still off its a shame to waste the oppertunity so fingers crossed.
Betting the water did not do much damage... At least hoping so.
ReplyDeleteI installed the batteries this morning. My C.Scope did power up, but no sound. I'll give it one more day drying out time and then consider getting it repaired.
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