DUAL FIELD EARPADS crummy POS

[scrounger d detector collector]

MY NEW DUAL FIELD 1 yr old used 4x.pristine, hasnt even seen a battery change yet.

ear cushions are glued onto headphone speaker enclosure with a very thin sticky base.

one side fell off already and the other side is slipping.

the adhesive used is something akin to what u would use to seal a letter.

whites proudly proclaims buy american. yeah right.same short cut manf techniques as china.

now i can waste part of my hunting time goin to walmart to get some shoe goo.

and glue these properly

 

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[FCCDFEd]

I'd bet if you would take the time to return them White's would make it right.

 

[OBN]

Go Silicon Gel Pads...Like having your head between two.xxxx.........then use AquaSeal to put them on with, bet they will be there when you find your last Gold....Or go the Peltor Mod...But White's and Garrett have the best CS of all, sure they would help for nothing.....

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/pspages/headsetsincearseals.php

 

[stevemc]

I know if you keep things like a metal detector in a garage that has a water heater or especially a fridge or any kind of electric motor, it can rapidly degrade glues and some types of rubber. It will really degrade a cars plastics. Ozone is created and destroys all that. They must be kept inside the house. Or somewhere where there is no ozone production. I have 2 White's Surfmasters and both are 15 years old at least, and both still have the same earphones, no problems, except they are not real tight. Never were. I do plan to do OBNs swap on them.

 

[trsrseeker]

Obn, do you think the silicone gel pads will work on detectors used for diving (Excal and DF)?

 

[stevemc]

They should work fine. Plus the air filled ones will compress at depth, the gel filled wont.

 

[OBN]

Steve is right, just make sure you use Aqua Seal to put them on with, the regular adhesive is good for about one year, the AquaSealed ones of mine have been on for 3 years with no letting up. The Peltor Earpads at 42 bucks are the best but they have a couple little air holes that will fill with a very small amount of water..when I first used them under, I though they had ruptured but after watching them..I noticed the holes were there for a reason.

 

[petersra]

My DF had the same problem after about a year and a half. I just used rubber cement and it seems to have worked fine. Now that you mention it, I am sure Shoe Goo would have made a more perminant fix. The detector cuff broke in half at the seam within the first year and the thumb screw holding the cuff onto the shaft fell off the first time I used the detector. (I did not realize the cuff was movable, since my Tesoro cuff is fixed, and the manual said nothing about it. I did not realize I had to be sure to tighten the thumb screw that was not tight when it left the factory.) Whites would likely have made the repairs under warranty, but that is not the point. Who wants to pay to send a new detector back under warranty and be without the detector while it is being repaired. I made a new cuff out of scrap SS I had laying around, put a SS bolt to replace the missing thumbscrew and spent a lot less downtime by doing it myself. It is just a shame to get a new product that needs to be sent back under warranty. A real hassle.