Replacement Minelab coil wire 4 core

[urge38]

Hi Guys

I need to replace the coil wire on a Minelab Tornado coil on my Sov GT

can anyone recommend me a wire and there to purchase this??

I live in the UK

I would preferer a Black outer cable, Think the inner colours are white, red, yellow and black BUT that is Less important


Many thanks

[ejudasf]

I have done this before.

I was dealing with cable rot. The entire length of cable was dry rotted.

I cut the cable about 2 inches from the coil, and removed the cable gland.

I then realized the lack of room to work with for the splice, and the amount of 'slack' wire that will need to be tucked somewhere. I then used a slightly larger cable gland that didn't have a strain relief.

So I stripped the wires very carefully. Just about at the height of the coil screw. I left a little less than 1/4" of exposed wire for soldering. Each wire was then tinned with solder. Very little solder.

The cable.

The cable was acquired from a cheap coil. The purchased coil was a Garrett and I got it for $10.00. I know, I am lucky. Also, the wire colors were the same as the Minelab coil.

The cable sheath was stripped about 1/2". Very short wires to work with. Each wire was stripped about 1/8". The wire ends at the coil were also trimmed down to about 1/8". A piece of heat shrink, a little longer than 1/8" is cut for each wire.

Now the soldering of each wire, with a piece of heat shrink tubing on each wire, without shrinking the tubing is a trick that will have to be learned. Just keep the tubing on the bottom part of the wire, and solder above it. Since the wires are tinned, the solder should melt really quick without a lot of heat transfer that may shrink the tubing. After each wire is soldered, shrink the tubing.

After all the wires are soldered and tubing is shrunk, you can twist the exposed wires so that they compress and fit closer to the cable gland threads. Place the new cable gland and tighten.

Will you trust that fix to be waterproof. It will depend on the cable gland rubber washers, and the thickness of the new cable. You could place a small amount of 5-minute epoxy and make it permanent. But don't do it till after you terminate the other end with the connector and test the unit.

I wish I had images of the one I did.

laterz

ed