Changing Excalibur 1000 from long to underwater shaft

david33884 · Dec 7, 2008

Does anyone know how to change the shaft of the excalibur 1000 to the shorter version for underwater? I have a short tube the same diameter of the as the longer land shaft and it's about 8" long. It looks to me that there is a piece in the coil end of the long shaft that allows the coil to be bolted to the shaft that would have to be removed from the end of the long shaft and attached to the short shaft. I don't know if this piece that attaches the coil is glued into the end long shaft or screwed in there are just pushed in. I hate to force things to the point of breaking on a guess.

camb1 · Dec 7, 2008

The short diving shaft has the coil mounting bracket attached to it. It sounds like you just have a short piece of shaft with nothing on the ends. Are you sure it is not part of a hip-mount?

Sandman · Dec 7, 2008

Camb1 is right as the diving shaft has the mounting bracket for the coil attached. Minelab used to supply the short dive shaft with the Excal. All you would do to change over is remount the coil and attach the controls to the shaft too.

erikk · Dec 8, 2008

On one of the older 1000's I bought used the bracket and the shaft were not connected but were in the box. I know the person who I got it from never used it under water so it is the way it came from the dealer. I just had to glue the pieces together. Perhaps you had the same situation and yours got lost or is in the box needing to be attached