Excalibur Question

[glory-days]

Does anyone use silicone to seal the coil cover? Is it recommended? This would be to keep the sand out. Thanks in advance for your input, glory-days

 

[DR]

Hi, it was suggested to me to do just that, so I bought a tube of silicone and had all intentions of doing just that when I happened on another post discussing the very subject.
The reason I have not is one of the posts stressed the importance of getting it perfectly sealed. If you allow one grain of sand in there, more will be follwing it's lead and over time it could build up and might mess up your coil performance and you might not know that's the problem.
My coil cover wont stay on to save it's life so it sounded pretty attractive to me, but for know I just put a few wraps of electrical tape on there to hold it on and remove and clean it after a hunt.
DR

 

[JoeinMemphis]

I use a Tiger Shark and had problems keeping the cover on, if I held the coil horizontal, the cover would fall off. I said heck with it, I'm going with silicone. I haven't had any problems with the 8" or 10.5" coils since I did it. I started with a THICK bead on the inside of the outer ring, and another one on the inside of the inner ring and seem to have sealed it well. If you do get a perfect seal you won't have any problems. Don't be afraid to pour on the silicone. HH Joe

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Good luck, if it was me I think I would take my detector to a MD store and try the covers till I found one that fit tight. My situtation is different, with KellyCo in the same town I just have to walk in to do this.

I know water has a way of getting into almost anything and if water can get in so can the sand.

(Tie-wraps are cheap)

 

[Sandman]

I used to seal the coil cover gap with silicone to keep the sand out. But I won't anymore!!

A gap will develop and black sand will find the way inside the coil cover to cause it to become unstable. Removing the cover then becomes difficult. It is much easier to just remove the cover once in awhile to rinse it out.

Some have did away with the cover altogether and coated the bottom with epoxy to protect the coil.

 

[Farmercal]

I just did this last week and glad I did. Doesn't look that neat but I gobbed it on on purpose to prevent sand from getting inside the coil cover. The silicone seal had sand all over it but I am pretty sure nothing is getting inside. If something does get inside I will know pretty quick because I have heard the strange sound when that happens. "Keeping fingers crossed."

 

[spez401]

After hearing Maxx talk about his epoxy treatment, I got rid of all my coil covers and put the marine epoxy on my coils. I recently heard about using the duraliner truck bed liner (it sprays on like a spraypaint, but is a nice thick rubber coating). I figure I might try that next...

But I had the same problem sandman talks about with the silicone... eventually, sand will work its way inside the cover.

good luck

steve