What is the deepest you have taken yours without it leaking? Thanks for the information.
My CTX had no leak issue yet, I don't want to be the beta tester of Minelab by playing with my own CTX, send me yours and I'll post a Youtub video "
How deep CTX 3030 cracks under pressure"
About 2 years ago I've joined some friends in Italy for a "detection week end" on the Adriatic cost. I've traveled by car with my CTX for the beach and my Excalibur for scuba diving.
When I joined my teamates on the boat with my scuba equipments, there were all surprised that I took my Excal rather then the CTX for a <10m depth sea hunt.
They all asked me "is your CTX dead?", "no more batteries?", "can we help?"
I was amazed to see 3 CTX 3030 ready for diving sitting next to them. They've shown me their Mods and quickly gave me those o'rings and sealant.
To be honest, when I've jumped in the water with my CTX, I was sooooo scared..... I turned it on, slowly went underwater and start to detect: it was amazing to enjoy my CTX underwater, look at the screen, toggle between patterns
Those O'rings are sold in Italy by shops packaged with sillicon grease and advertized as "Minelab O'rings for CTX" :
MINELAB KIT GRASSO SILICONICO E O-RING (14.8?) Accessori Metal Detectors Accessori Metal Detectors :: Accessori Minelab (EN)
Why does this solution is not "known" ? Maybe because most of CTX users are newbies and power users don't like to share with other their tips... I've never mentioned it on Euro forums for example
At the end of the day, CTX is NOT a scuba detector, it remains difficult to handle underwater, now for shallow huntings this mod might save your journee and makes you focus on other weaknesses of your CTX, such as:
- poor screen protection quality,
- Upper shaft need to be glued
- LCD Reliability ...
