Option 3) remove the phone (which contains metal).Option 1) remove the battery.
Option 2) remove the buzzer.
In the home page of this circuit they say that the second coil is trimmed with a brass nut around the coil.bfo types require that the frequencies of the two oscilators be the same. there are no trimmer caps on that circuit to vary one to "ballance" the circuit. they work by changing the inductance of the search coil with the burried metal, changing its frequency a bit, causing a hetrodyne that is amplified by the rest of the circuit.
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