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I just broke my coil and I need some advise

Mark in S.E. IA

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Does anybody know of a good poxy or anything else that I can use to glue the tabs back on my 10.5 DD coil. I need help real bad. I'm not working right now and I hate to spend the money for a new coil right now.

Thanks for any help that you might have.
 
Do not glue! Clean parts thoroughly! You need to melt the plastic back together.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,879641,880170#msg-880170

http://www.houseofhobbies.com/plbosoce.html

Whatever you buy test it on something like your coil cover first.

If it were me and I didn't use my coil cover, then I would cut out a couple of reinforcing pieces, drill bolt holes and mount to outside after the initial repair. I'd then melt them on to the coil ears for good measure. May not look purdy but it should be better than glue.

HH
BarnacleBill
 
[size=large]I would use Marine epoxy, you can buy it at home depot or Lowe's, and it's waterproof, i use it on my headphones, one of my ears broke right off and used that and left it on their overnight and it works like a charm,, Harold in Fla. [/size]
 
thanks Bill, I'm going to try the Acetone thing and then cut some pieces out of the coil cover and glue them to the sides of the tabs.
 
I had the ears on a coiltec coil break a few years ago. I used the acetone method with a coil cover for parts. I did several layers of the coil cover and cut them to shape. It did not look that good, but held up over a year!!!! If you soak the plastic for a while it will get soft and sticky. Then you can bend it to make corners and mold it like clay.
 
I broke mine on my stock coil and Minelab replaced the whole coil. If your coil is less than a year old Minelab may take care of it. They replaced mine no questions ask.
 
Bill M, I've had this coil for 3 yrs now so I didn't even try too see if they would replace it. I do a lot of construction sites, farm fields and woods. Places like that are hard on coils so it does not surprise me that I broke off the tabs.
 
It will hold it together.put a little on each piece at the break the stick together and the put the rest around the cracked area on the outside it will melt the plastic together and will be as strong as ever. that's what coil manufactures put the bottom and tops of coils together with.They actually make a slurry by putting cut pieces of plastic in the MEK overnight and seal it up. the next day they take the slurry of dissolved plastic and spread on both pieces of the coil and presto when it dries its indestructible almost.

TRy to make a slurry up with the MEK and plastic an smear it around the crack Ill bet it welds.

give it a try I've done it before on the old minelab sovereign white coils and it worked great.

hope it helps

Keith Southern
 
The first thing I did I melted the tabs back on with Acetone and that took about a 1/2 hr. I had to let it set a good 2 hrs before they cured and the tabs were good and solid.

I bought some Loctite Plastic Epoxy and did some test glues. It bonded great to the coil, but it did NOT bond to the coil cover. Great, now I have to find some other plastic too cut out pieces too glue to the side of the tabs for support. I found an old BH 4" coil that I still had and I did some glue test on it. It seem to pass but I was still not real happy with the results. It was hard , but I could break the pieces a part.

I use to install auto glass and I know that some of the urethane's that we used to install auto glass would work on some plastic's. So I called an old coworker and asked if he could get me the stuff I wanted to try. I did a glue test and it passed with flying colors. It bonded to both coils.

I used DOW Beta seal Express urethane and you have to use Dow 5404A pinchweld & encapsulation Primer. If you don't use the primer, the urethane well not stick to the plastic. You can also use Dow Beta seal U-418 urethane and the Primer.

We'll see how long this works, I hope it last a long time.
 
Don't look horrible. Hope it works as stout as it looks.

Let us know down the road a ways.

HH
Jeff
 
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