Mike Hillis Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 A guy has a bunch of Bigfoot coils on ebay. None of them appeared to be sealed. One of them has a picture of the insides. For your viewing enjoyment.....the inside view of a Bigfoot coil. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick K - First Member Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Good grief - no wonder nobody else could make them - part physics, part voodo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 And he is selling this unsealed coil for only $1,150.00! http://www.ebay.com/itm/372046102322?ul_noapp=true 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnedoe Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I have an Eagle Spectrum with 6", 9", 12" hothead and a Bigfoot coil. I have been thinking about selling it. It is a great machine and I don't think the DFX or MXT have any advantages over it when using the bigfoot. Not sure yet though if I really want to sell........ Anything is possible though. I have been wondering if I set the V3i on 7.5 if I could use the bigfoot at that freq...... Guess I could call White's about it unless anybody here knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hillis Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 Evidently this guy has access to this left over stuff up from Jim Karbowski's workshop. He has added another in-process coil to the list. Looking at the coil design, I see the nulling coil in the background, with the transmit and receive coils in the fore ground. That big black thing on the edge is the grounding contact to the paint on the inside of the other half. It really doesn't look that hard to construct. HH Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gillespie Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Jim Karbowski, does he sell custom coils? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Sadly, Jim passed away in 2007 and his coils are now collector's items. http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/obituaries/james-karbowski/article_c8505ae6-50ec-5639-8a21-33a96b718ad4.html The BigFoot Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geotech Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 After Jim died Jimmy Normandi bought all his Bigfoot inventory and had Roy Van Epps building them in the old defunct Discovery factory. I went there to visit Roy one day, what an eerie place, like a ghost factory. Roy and a helper were building Bigfeet that day, he said only about half of what he built would work right. Health problems forced him to stop, no idea who got all the left over stuff. There was also a big batch of stuff stored at Whites for building coaxial Eliminator coils (also Karbowski). Like the Bigfoot, those were also unique and useful. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Looks like Jim's original notebooks with secrets of Bigfoot manufacture are for sale... http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIGFOOT-COIL-WINDING-ASSEMBLY-Instructions-25-MAGNUM-FORCE-WHITE-METAL-DETECTOR-/372054409056?hash=item56a02bbf60:g:8jcAAOSwr6xZngrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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