New pinpointer at the school

For the past couple of times we've gone out, I've let Mary detect while I used the pinpointer. I've been noticing the pinpointer hadn't been preforming too well. The unit wouldn't turn on when I pressed the button, it didn't stay on while the button was press or when there was metal in front of it, the sound would whimper before it stopped working. I assumed it needed new batteries considering I haven't changed the battery that came with it. But after putting a new one in, none of the problems went away. It became clear that the 'on' switch wasn't making contact. I had to wiggle it around the right way to make the pinpointer turn on, now it hardly turns on at all.

Mary had I great time teasing me about breaking it. I'm quite handy at re-wiring things but I would have to get a special switch and the free time to work on it. We are both quite busy working on the house and have little time to detect let alone drop everything to take on a small re-wiring project. On the other hand, we can not detect properly with the Pinpointer and I enjoy the escape from house work to detect. I had to make an executive decision, so I bought a new one while I try to fix the old one. We have couple of friends that detect, so once I get this one fixed we could lend it out when we detect together. Maybe I could improve the first one with a big 'Frankenstein' switch on the side, a giant flashlight strapped to the top and a Swiss-Army knife that pulls out from the bottom!!!

But I digress...

We had noticed on Saturday when we were driving around that a soccer tournament taking place in at a public school we like to detect at. We were intrigued that the spectators were not sitting on the hillside nor on the edge of the running track where we had detected before but on the white line right on the edge of the soccer field. The next day we came back and detected where we'd missed before and found absolutely nothing much new (except some electronic circuitry. No new switch for the Pinpointer though).

We moved to the playground equipment after the small children left. Mary's mom, Pat and nephew, Dawson came out to visit us. Dawson was very excited about digging so we gave him a shovel. The only problem was getting him to stop digging.

Our friend Debby was walking her dog Saddie in the school yard and I stopped to chat with her while Mary and Dawson began to scan the playground. Between me talking to Debby and Mary waiting for Dawson to stop creating a tunnel with his hand shovel we didn't do very much. This should be Dawson's metal detecting blog, he did all the work. At the end of the day we had 4 dinky cars, 2 capacitors, a mechanical pencil, couple of zippers and buttons, too many pull tabs to mention and $1.22 in clad.

p.s. It seems strange that Dawson has used our new pinpointer more than Mary and I combined.