I bought two of these yesterday. One is complete, the other no so much. I was told one works.. How would you know other than to calibrate it?
One of the more unique items Ivr came across. The guy had a 3rd in poor condition  and a "model 1" mine detector.
I never have seen these before. I paid 190 for both of them. I figure you guys would enjoy it.

Metal detector store might could check calibration.

fugliest toes I've ever seen in a pic...........where are your shoes man?   Cool find. Those remind me of stuff my dad used to bring home from the state capitol. There was a gov't surplus facility that he was able to buy chit from..........all kinds of neat stuff in the day.

 

Calibration is easy.

Turn it on.

Does sing when you run it over steel.

Done

pfft, everyone knows the real army mine detector is a couple 12B's with chop sticks crawling around on their stomachs. What you have there is known as a bullet magnet

Well I can deal with this if its just a metal detector.

Pretty much at this point I am only doing work that allows me to go sockless and not shave, or waders.

"There was a gov't surplus facility that he was able to buy chit from". I want have one of these one day.  Think the Costco from Idiocracy. Items buy the case. You want a Humvee.. Heres one in a crate stored ready for airdrop.. 65k please thank you goodbye.. NIB M249.. Pay at the front and we will get it xferred to your home state...  You want those concrete wall things to build a fort.. Let me find a big rig to load them bad boys up..
So, your getting married and need a place setting of Uncle Sams finest stainless steel eh.. Can I interest you in some canteens while Im at it? P38.. I got 196,000 of them.. Why the hell do you need an Abram tank track? Those are on isle 045HB. Power Wagon lug nuts.. In a coffee can by the register.

That kind of place.

Smith and Edwards in Ogden, Utah used to be pretty much exactly that kind of place. It was AMAZING what you could find in that store or the yards outside. I've heard they've changed a lot since I was last there about a dozen years ago, but it truly was like the garden of Eden back then.

Are those batteries still available? One thing I've run into when looking at radios and such is that the recent tech is so far beyond that the old batteries are mega voltage compared to today.

 








 

This, I go metal detecting for Old Coins, silver and gold jewelry. These look vintage so theres no VDI reader just the headphones? Take some silver ot gold coins/jewely if you don't have the coins, also lay out different types of metal like pennies (Coppe), nuts and bolts,  tinfoil, etc. Turn it on and put the headset on and you should notice the higher the pitch coming from the headseats those refer to higher quality metal, or in newer models' you just check you hits.......Silver is in the low to mid 80 VDI range and of course gold is around the same, If your going to use these, your gonna have to sweep the real deal befere you go sweeping and digging your backyard. If you need any help or have ore cdetailed questions, just IM me and I'll call you and walk you through it. That is of course if they work.

ETA - Jst because they ae military Mine detectors doesn't mean hey won't pickup goldsilver signals, my buddy has a vietnme or slightly newer (1980's) era mine detctor and we both went out to the same spot to sweep for "treasure" I have a Garret AT Pro and he has a $70 USGI surplus detector. Well to make a long story short, that day I found  silver dimes, and a Silver 1964 Kennedy. Nick and his budget GI detector found 2 .925 silver pieces of jewlry and a 7.9 gram 14K Gold ring. It just goes to show you the luck that's involved and your chances aren't better with a $700.00 detector.