Cupajo
Joined: 24 Apr 2008
Posts: 20
Location: Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:30 am Post subject: THE VERY BEST WAY TO REPAIR/PROTECT YOUR COIL/LOOP
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High Gang,
There have been a number of very useful responces to my posts about repairing and protecting a detector loop.
There are two seperate issues as I see it. Repair, it would seem to me, is to use a high strength epoxy etc, to seal and/or make strong(repair) the damaged loop.
The other issue is to prevent damage to a loop!! Epoxy is wear resistant , but not as well as some of the other materials I've seen!! Loops coated with semi-flexible coatings, such as spray on truck bed liner material and rubber-like material, such as the tool handle coating I've used in some of the worst possible conditions and with hardly a mark on them.
Any necessary touch ups would be simple enough for any of these materials.
Spray on coating, somehow, makes more sense to me. It can never have the problems that seem to plague coil covers as an added plus!!!
GL&HH Friends,
Cupajo
Joined: 24 Apr 2008
Posts: 20
Location: Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:30 am Post subject: THE VERY BEST WAY TO REPAIR/PROTECT YOUR COIL/LOOP
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High Gang,
There have been a number of very useful responces to my posts about repairing and protecting a detector loop.
There are two seperate issues as I see it. Repair, it would seem to me, is to use a high strength epoxy etc, to seal and/or make strong(repair) the damaged loop.
The other issue is to prevent damage to a loop!! Epoxy is wear resistant , but not as well as some of the other materials I've seen!! Loops coated with semi-flexible coatings, such as spray on truck bed liner material and rubber-like material, such as the tool handle coating I've used in some of the worst possible conditions and with hardly a mark on them.
Any necessary touch ups would be simple enough for any of these materials.
Spray on coating, somehow, makes more sense to me. It can never have the problems that seem to plague coil covers as an added plus!!!
GL&HH Friends,
Cupajo