Not sure what I was thinking,,

[GA1dad]

With the love/hate relationship I already have with my CIbola, you'd think I would know better than to take on another one.

I was contacted by a feller on FB about a Cibola "that has 3 or 4 wires that came loose". Next thing I know I have acquired this thing as a parts machine in a trade for a pinpointer I had not used in a few years. We meet up and he hands me a baggie with the head unit in it, and the shaft. I asked him what happened and he said he didn't know other than he took it out of the closet and it made a funny noise,, then he opened it up and wires came loose.

I opened up the baggie and found it missing the battery cover, the connector nuts for the coil and the headphones, and plenty of disconnected wires. Lemme tell ya,,, I love to fettle with stuff and I like a good challenge,,,,, but this ain't lookin' good at all. I guess since Tesoro has closed their doors, having a parts machine isn't all bad.

 

[Confetrit]

GA1dad, I don't know if I've asked you this in the past, but are you from Georgia?

 

[GA1dad]

GA1dad, I don't know if I've asked you this in the past, but are you from Georgia?

Spent a lot of years in Georgia,,,, currently next door in South Carolina. When I came up with the name/email address,,, I considered myself Georgia's #1 Dad

 

[Dancer]

Must not have liked that pinpointed much. Bright side someone always looking for parts.

 

[GA1dad]

Must not have liked that pinpointed much. Bright side someone always looking for parts.

LOL,,, I can honestly say I never planned to ever use that particular pinpointer again. it was bound to be traded off at some point. I wouldn't have considered the trade if I didn't already have one to compare it to.

Today I established that the coil is bad, which I assume was the original problem. This is unfortunate since that part alone would have made it a fair trade from a dollars/cents perspective. However, I got the boards under some good light this afternoon and I'm optimistic that it may indeed be repairable. That is as long as that big old blob of solder didn't burn the board too bad. I'm unsure why he was even soldering there as there is nothing that connects there. If I can get the head unit fired up, I already have an extra coil I can put on it. ( Very optimistic, I know )

More to come,,,

 

[Kennesaw Rebel]

Still have my tejon.. finally after 20 yrs I got an equinox 800.. tejon with a double d coil found many brass buttons at 14-15 inches which is still damn good even by today’s standard.. never forget the sweet sound of a local ga 24mm button at 17” deep, asked my brother to check with his “deep” fisher 1266.. nothing nada... then sweet brass sound deep on mine . Never underestimate that machine- bad to the bone still-

 

[bklein]

That looks totaly fixable. Look at the pcb and a schematic of a similar detector and match up functional areas then understand what the pots do and wire them up. You’ll learn alot and be proud of yourself. Trade ya a minelab pinpointer for it.