Anyone ever open up one of these....

[Mike95inNJ]

My stock coil for my Classic II has some movement of the parts inside. At this point it isn't working very well. So I figure what do I have to lose? I might as well try to cut it open and repair it with epoxy or something. Anyone ever try this? Thanks.
Mike in NJ

 

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[Mike95inNJ]

Well I went ahead and cut this open tonight. I used a dremel. You can see in the pictures where the wires came off the styrofoam.So far so good. Tested it and it seems to be back to it's old self. I'm going to put another fat bead over it and cover it with one strip of good ole duct tape around the perimeter while the adhesive is wet. Here's a series of the repair pics. Can't fit the pics in one post.
HH, Mike in NJ

 

[Jeff G]

If you really want it permanent. You could lay in glass cloth with epoxy(NOT POLYESTER EPOXY). Regular true epoxy won't eat foam. you could then put a couple of strips of cloth and epoxy around head to hold the piece together. It would be water tight and never come loose again.

 

[khouse]

Nice repair! Not much in there.

 

[TreasureTales]

Uh, I wouldn't use duct tape because it can have microscopic metallic bits in the silver/gray topside. You'd always wonder why you were getting those ghost signals. LOL

 

[Mike95inNJ]

Uh, I wouldn't use duct tape because it can have microscopic metallic bits in the silver/gray topside. You'd always wonder why you were getting those ghost signals. LOL

Yeah I thought that afterwards and went with a different tape. Works fine. Thanks.
HH,Mike in NJ

 

[Functional]

That coil winding sure looks tiny compared to the others I've seen online. I wonder what guage of magnet wire they used for that. From the outside that looks expactly like my coil.

I've wondered if my detector, (White's Coinmaster 1000 Series 3), isn't just named differently because it was sold in Canada. I've seen that done with other products sold here. According to the manual for mine, (downloaded from White's website), theres some sort of auto descrimination and I've thougth of doing some modifications to it, but I havn't seen anything online about doing that.

It's still a fine little detector as it is, but I've been thinking of changing the shaft as its all aluminum and I'm wondering if that could be why theres so much turn left in the sensitivity knob after it beeps. I'm going to test out that theory when I have time by removing the shaft and maybe use a wooden broomstick to test an see if the depth increases any without the aluminum.

Thanks for psoting the pictures. It takes away some of the mystery I might find inside should I ever need to open the coil up.

F.