Has Anyone Ever Waterproofed Their detector??

[Garrett424]

I have a Bounty Hunter machine (202) I want to waterproof to try some underwater hunting this year.
I have a couple of old swimming holes I have good feelings about. Plus, I've never done any real underwater hunting and I'm dying to give it a try now that summer is finally upon us.

I've seen a few YouTube videos and have a few ideas incubating but I'm wondering if anyone has actually done this successfully and if so, I would love to hear about it.

I found one old thread here by a guy who said he filled all of the holes with marine epoxy and it worked great. The thing is, I tried to PM him and found out he's been banned from the site. So I'm not convinced his method is for real. Although technically, it should work (at least for a while) the description isn't too detailed. I'm not going to risk my machine without knowing full well that it will NOT leak.

Although I'm not in love with this particular detector I still don't wanna' fry it. It's still fine for a spare and/or kid machine and it has found me a few really nice treasures.

So the end goal is to make it fully submersible and able to safely use headphones. If anyone had successfully done a job like this I would truly love to hear all about it.


Thanks in advance and HH.

 

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[Indian Steve]

My advice is to get a dedicated water detector and save your detector for dry land. I had a Tesoro Lobo and removed the box and put the box in a floating cooler and towed it behind or wherever the wind blew it as I hunted. Pain in the ##s. I bought a Tiger Shark and love it.

 

[G.I.B.]

Go buy a water machine...

Save yourself a lot of trouble and aggravation.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

That could get really dicey, and you'd have to do a "perfect" job, no mistakes, and if the worst happens you've lost a detector.
The only thing I have heard of being waterproofed was a pin pointer, and that involved 2 zip lock bags, used in about a foot of water.