mapper65
Member
I thought I would post this for some of the new guys out there and as reminder to those of us that have been detecting a while that can tend to be a little lazy.
In our area we get pretty lucky and most years and we can detect year round minus a few weeks here and there but I always take time after Christmas and usually in the middle of summer to take my coil covers off and give everything a good cleaning. As tight as those fit, it always surprises me how much crud you get between the coil and the coil cover. I'm one of those guys that doesn't believe in sealing my coil covers on with silicone. I like being able to take mine off, clean everything and inspect them to be sure I haven't rubbed through anywhere or that they aren't cracking. Sealing them makes that a little more difficult to do unless you want to break the seal and reseal them every time.
Here are a few pictures of one of my 10.5" coils after a good 6 months or so of heavy detecting.
The first picture you can see the coil and the cover immediately after the two were separated along with a freshly cleaned cover off of my other 10.5" coil. Although I would expect that this much dirt doesn't give you a night and day difference in your readings, I'm sure it does skew them somewhat based on what the makeup of the dirt actually is. In every area the content of that dirt is going to be a little different.
So for those of you like me that do not seal your covers, let this be your friendly reminder to do a little spring cleaning.
In our area we get pretty lucky and most years and we can detect year round minus a few weeks here and there but I always take time after Christmas and usually in the middle of summer to take my coil covers off and give everything a good cleaning. As tight as those fit, it always surprises me how much crud you get between the coil and the coil cover. I'm one of those guys that doesn't believe in sealing my coil covers on with silicone. I like being able to take mine off, clean everything and inspect them to be sure I haven't rubbed through anywhere or that they aren't cracking. Sealing them makes that a little more difficult to do unless you want to break the seal and reseal them every time.
Here are a few pictures of one of my 10.5" coils after a good 6 months or so of heavy detecting.
The first picture you can see the coil and the cover immediately after the two were separated along with a freshly cleaned cover off of my other 10.5" coil. Although I would expect that this much dirt doesn't give you a night and day difference in your readings, I'm sure it does skew them somewhat based on what the makeup of the dirt actually is. In every area the content of that dirt is going to be a little different.
So for those of you like me that do not seal your covers, let this be your friendly reminder to do a little spring cleaning.