garren
Hero Member
Every since I saw a Compadre Mini on a UK website I wanted one. Since you can't get them here in the states and I didn't want to order one from the UK I decided to build my own. I also didn't want to go out and buy a new Compadre and chop it up so I started saving parts. Through a series of trades I ended up with an almost new Compadre for practically nothing invested. Along with some extra Stingray poles and a cracked 4" coil a friend gave me I started cutting.
The Stingray pole was cut down and the crack in the 4" coil was epoxied. Before moving the control box over to the new short pole I did the interchangeable coil mod on the Compadre. This way I could easily put it back on its original pole and coil if I ever wanted to. Also, While its on the short pole with 4" coil it gives me an extra 5.75 coil that it came with.
I thought this would be a fun little detector for tight places like crawl spaces, under houses, thick brush etc. Overall length is approx 14". I have used it a few times already and it works great. Another use I thought of came about when a friend picked up an Indian head penny off of my tailings while digging bottles. This would be a good little tool to have laying close by for dump digging since swinging a full size detector from a sitting or kneeling position is cumbersome.
Search for "Compadre Mini" on Youtube if you want to see how this transpired. Its a fairly straight forward project but there were a few quirks that had to addressed. The video has the part numbers for the interchangeable coil conversion and the pinout. I would post the video link but it's monetized and I thought I read somewhere on the forums that links to monetized vids were not allowed.
Happy hunting everyone!
The Stingray pole was cut down and the crack in the 4" coil was epoxied. Before moving the control box over to the new short pole I did the interchangeable coil mod on the Compadre. This way I could easily put it back on its original pole and coil if I ever wanted to. Also, While its on the short pole with 4" coil it gives me an extra 5.75 coil that it came with.
I thought this would be a fun little detector for tight places like crawl spaces, under houses, thick brush etc. Overall length is approx 14". I have used it a few times already and it works great. Another use I thought of came about when a friend picked up an Indian head penny off of my tailings while digging bottles. This would be a good little tool to have laying close by for dump digging since swinging a full size detector from a sitting or kneeling position is cumbersome.
Search for "Compadre Mini" on Youtube if you want to see how this transpired. Its a fairly straight forward project but there were a few quirks that had to addressed. The video has the part numbers for the interchangeable coil conversion and the pinout. I would post the video link but it's monetized and I thought I read somewhere on the forums that links to monetized vids were not allowed.
Happy hunting everyone!
