I found a Bickel hand held detector
 

Hi guys I found this strange looking thing at a swap meet. I did some googling and found some references to Dr Bickel and his detectors on your forums. Do you think this could be one of his hand held models?

Hi.
Yes, Algor is his model.
Look the attached photo of an Algor explorer.
As i remember j_player had meet Dr Bickel
Do you have a photo from inside the detector??

Here is a shot of the control circuits.

http://i.imgur.com/w3E702d.jpg

It also comes with a sensor tube.

http://i.imgur.com/Yu7fL6h.jpg

Have you bought it? :cool:

Yes I have. Any idea what it might be worth?

Hi Ducati250!
Algor is a good machine, but only for large mineral or ore deposits.
It can hardly be used to detect buried or hidden treasure.
Today there are a lot more compact version of the device that produced a German company.
Still, it's nice to have one Algor.
Congratulations on a good purchase!
Regards!
Sneshko

Ah, Yes...! For Algor and Dr Bickel visit link: http://www.longrangelocators.com/for...ad.php?t=11342
Regards!
Sneshko

From what i have read the cost of a used machine was about 10000$ at 1990's.
It is a collectable machine and very rare so i believe that the price will be high.
Btw.... how much you bought it and where are you from????

I am in the South Island of New Zealand. We have large quantities of minerals in the ground here so perhaps it has been used to survey some of them??? I would rather not say how much it cost me but as no-one knew what it was (me included) it was not a lot.

I will probably list it on ebay to see if there is any interest in it.

Thanks for your help.

Hi.
Can you email me more photos (and maybe more clear) ???
I am interested in these device very much:) but no money to bid it when you list it at ebay :angry::lol::lol:

to Ducati250
 

Please contact me as I could be interested in the Bickel device.