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To Carl: I've been weeding out my old stock and broken parts detectors and came across this detector. I believe that it ran at about 44kiloherz, which is high for a relic detector. The early brochures claim that it was a lot more responsive to the higher non-ferrous metals than the lower frequency machines! Now in checking out its performance, it does turn on and beeps but it seems there are gaps in the discrimination dial. In other words, the detector will go to null and no threshold until the dial is moved down or up from this setting. Is this a defective potentiator dial which needs to be replace or cleaned? Also can you recommend someone to do repairs who is reasonable in their charges? Keith Wills is getting a bit expensive. I'm averaging about $85.00 per detector for him to repair which is ok for an expensive model but many of which I cherished are the lower priced machines which probably wouldn't sell for more than $ 50.00 or so on ebay. Thanks
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REPAIR AND ELECTRONIC CLEANUP QUESTION
See my previous post. This is a vintage 1975 era DETECTOR. I would like to do the clean up and minor repairs myself but am not sure where to start? Also what do you use to clean out like a dirty potentiameter? Alcohol? Also for the finer parts to clean do you use a cotton swab? Any advise would be greatly appreciate? Also what causes drift on an older machine and what can I do to alleviate this problem? Thanks Joe -
Ah, should have read here first. OK, try the Radio Shack spray. If you need to replace the pot, it's something you can probably do. If you're not comfortable with a soldering iron, and don't know anyone who can do it, I'll be glad to, no charge.Comment
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