Aureous Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 Anyone know of any person or company, worldwide that sells coil shells? Thinking about building a smallish CC coil for the Legacy Minelab PI's. I only know of a Bulgarian and Ukrainian seller but neither has coil covers to accompany their shells. The Ukrainian one (Pictured) is only a 9", so the receive coil will be C.5" at best.....so should be sensitive but not great overall depth for larger targets. Any ideas???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geotech Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Try Don Bowers (dfbowers) via the Geotech forums. If you epoxy-pour the coil you really don't need a bottom. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aureous Posted November 30, 2023 Author Share Posted November 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Geotech said: Try Don Bowers (dfbowers) via the Geotech forums. If you epoxy-pour the coil you really don't need a bottom. Thanks Carl, I saw Dons original website was non existent and thought he was retired? I thought about expoxy'ing the coil but was worried about the weight...but seeing how I currently can only find small'ish shells (Ive got a couple of Bill Hayes 12" ones lying around), its probably not worth worrying about....I'll give that a try I think ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geotech Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 I don't know if Don is still making shells, but he's the only one I know of to try. Get some microballoons to mix in the epoxy, it will make it much lighter. I bought a bag somewhere, maybe AliExpress. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aureous Posted November 30, 2023 Author Share Posted November 30, 2023 2 hours ago, Geotech said: I don't know if Don is still making shells, but he's the only one I know of to try. Get some microballoons to mix in the epoxy, it will make it much lighter. I bought a bag somewhere, maybe AliExpress. Yeah, good idea, air tends to not weigh much lol... I tried that many years ago and I added too much....the epoxy cracked. Steered away from it after that, but I'll give it another try when I play with the CC idea next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourtyniner Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 I've got two unused 8" coil bases for a Whites 6000, not skid plates. If you can use them. I'm in Victoria also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redz Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 3d printers for polycarbonate and a variety of plastics are quite reasonable now. I purchased one recently for some other projects. It also should not cost much to ask someone to print a few if prototyping for the smaller sized coils you want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aureous Posted November 30, 2023 Author Share Posted November 30, 2023 5 hours ago, Redz said: 3d printers for polycarbonate and a variety of plastics are quite reasonable now. I purchased one recently for some other projects. It also should not cost much to ask someone to print a few if prototyping for the smaller sized coils you want. Yeah I saw a couple web pages showing 3D Printer CAD files for prototype CC coil shells of the 'right' sizes....well worth thinking about. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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