Posted by Bob Sickler
on 9/7/2009, 12:14 pm, in reply to "mark1 target select adjustment"
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Hi Peter... Yes, the Mark I is the detector I refer to in my book often, among others. If memory serves me correctly, the Target Select can be both a reject and an accept Notch depending on where it is set in relation to the DISC control. I would adjust the detector as the manufacturer dictates and that is dial in DISC or Target Select settings with the toggle to the right held in the DISC mode. Dialing in Target Select above the DISC rejection level will create a "Reject Window". Dialing the Target Select below the DISC level will create an Accept Window". There is nothing hard to remember about this or in the adjustment, so stick to the way it was designed.
If you can get your hands on a back issue of Western & Eastern Treasures magazine, July 1985, Vol. 19, No. 7, I wrote (as field test editor) a detailed product report about the Mark I shortly after purchasing it and spending some time with it in the field. I'm on the front cover checking out a Tesoro for a future issue. God, that was 24 years ago! My beard is gray now, but the Mark I still has a place in my heart as my favorite coin detector of all time. Joe Patrick and I tried to help George Payne get it into a smaller package at one point some years ago, but perhaps it should be best left in the original package for posterity. I've tried the new lightweight (First Texas) Tek Omega recently and it comes close to the Mark I in depth and features, but I still prefer the bounce of an analog powered needle and analog audio pitched tone ID. Unfortunately, due to aging eyes and health issues, anything I would need to look to at arm's length is now wasted on me. I'm not crazy about wearing glasses with two focal ranges in the field. Bad enough I need put glasses on each time to read coin dates!
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