Coilo Repair

[Unregistered]

Hope someone out there may be able to help here.

Has anyone done there own coil repairs before?

One of my coils gives off a signal when hitting objects ( very lightly to ) quit

a common problem on some Tesoro coils.

On closer inspection inside I find that the bare wires which conect to the

upper and lower coil cases shielding have become detached, this being the

problem.(I wonder how many people have thrown away coils because of

this? ) This really seems to be weak point with these coils.



What I would like to know is what would be the best way of

repairing? Could some kind of shielding tape be used instead of the standard

paint/glue gun set up? With a better connection from wire to shield?

Would I be able to wrap my coil wires ( after removing the foam ) with said

tape etc like on a web style

coil? Is this tape easy to get hold of? and whats would I ask for? Any advice

PLEASE?

Before you say " get another coil" I live in England and Tesoro coils are twice

the price of the USA!!!!!! For the sake of a loose wire!!!


Please help.. Please see photo.

[Unregistered]

For some reason or other I'm not allowed to post a photo, sorry.

[Qiaozhi]

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[chopz54]

Its this Wire.. Thanks.

[Unregistered]

No-one knows then???

Thought somebody on here might have been able to help with this....oh well.

[Reg]

Hi,

There are several techniques that could be used. There is a conductive glue that can be used to reconnect the wire. However, one of the easiest is to solder a piece of stranded wire to the ground lead, maybe a 28 to 30 awg size, separate the strands and spread the strands and then simply tape the strands to the conductive surface using a good quality tape. I would have a couple of inches of bare standed wire taped down to assure a good connection.

One could use a conductive tape to tape the wires back on, but you have to be careful that that tape can't move and it is small enough that it isn't easily detected. I would still cover that tape with a good quality non conductive tape to assure it didn't come apart.

I have used this type of connection before and it works well. I got the idea from Bill Hays who used this technique of simply taping stranded wire to a conductive surface on his detectors he used to make.

Reg