Huego also said ........

Tell you what Owen & your Flounder mates........

the shovel, as an old & proven design (with or without gold pans), has found MUCH more gold than ALL the ML designs ....... crikey, and all without ANY PATENTS, spin or Batteries!!

 

"swooped past" using, and based on, the "borrowed knowledge" of others??  

Nup pretty sure it was a Minelab article ..

I'm pretty sure that it was a club guy, having a whinge to the editor.


"myself  and I believe many others were under the impression or were led to believe that ML would  do modular upgrades"


Yes Doug, myself  and I believe many others were under the impression or were led to believe, that Santa came at xmas...... and there was a tooth fairy....... so I understand your disappointment. ::53::

HI GANG- unless i'm wrong (who me ::55::) i think bugwhisker's was trying to establish whether the idea of an upgradable detector had been put in the public by minelab and that would be the basis for a spoiler challenge against the QED's innovative (for detector's) lead into the future.

it would also be interesting to note if the contents of that exchange also had any denials about minelab heading in that direction from any company reps or dealers.

bugwhisker's i'm a meathead end user with no legal background whatsoever but my gut feeling is if that situation was to be tried on it would only serve as a delaying tactic at best and that minelab or whoever
else tried it on could be countered too easily.... christ what next- ya can't replace diodes because it's been done before lol.

nah, go and have a beer mate and let the other mobs do the worrying ::38::

cheer's- dusty!!