It Lives !..... Again :fisher:

[Lakota]

Some of you may recall my post about drowning my stock 11" bi-axle on my F75 earlier this summer.

Well in a desprate attempt to dry it out I heated it in the oven at low temps for a few hours. Nothing changed. So I decided to take it to the next level to release the coil from the moister, I carefully drilled 5 1/4" holes in different locations. Left it in my Jeep over the summer thinking the heat would dry it out as a last ditch effort to recover the coil.

No luck!

So this evening I was searching for a used 11" ( yeah right, good luck at that ) after a fruitless mission, I had this wild hair to check the coil one last time before pulling the trigger on a new 11".

It Was Alive!!!!!

Couldn't be happier to have my baby back as she was when I learned her over all those hours of hunting.... And I'm looking forward to putting her back to work. I used some silicone to plug the holes and you can be darn sure that coil won't be dunked again

Lakota

 

[Neita SC]

The next time you get crazy and go bathing with your coil, try using silica gel beads to dry it out. You can get a a 2-pound bag at your local craft store,(Michaels or AC Moore). The gels beads are the same that you find in vitamin, shoes, beef jerky containers that keep the moisture out and come with the little warning that you should not to eat them. Just drop the coil and beads in a ziplock bag and let it sit fo a couple days. This trick worked to save my iphone when it fell in the lake a few months ago.

 

[osgood]

Plug the holes you drilled, but also those seams down near where the shaft, engages the coils. Was having overloads and poor performance in the rain yesterday, so as i had read on the forum bought some sealer and did the the seams, down on the plate and also where the coil goes in. Today , no problem. CO

 

[REVIER]

Congrats!

Serendipity...A "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it

 

[pasttom]

Uncooked rice will work very well too. Also be careful you don't seal the moisture in doing the job on a high humidity day or environment.

 

[BJ in Okla.]

n/t

 

[Lakota]

So I put in a few hours water hunting this morning, not much to talk about there beside tearing my heel up real nice..

After getting to the house and warming up I had a couple hours to burn before getting my little one. Loaded the 75 up and went to a soccer field across from her pre-school and Ohhh My! It was awesome to know what I was hearing under the coil Sadly the over cast decided to open up an hour into it so it was brief

I do like my 5" & 13" DD coils but I cannot put words in print that would do justice to the feeling of having my well known friend back. And I have plans to visit the ball field that gave up the dime trifecta this summer, I know it will be fun.

Have a good weekend guys,


Lakota