Stupid question about lower shaft and coil cable

[iskirkra]

I have my first minelab detector, an explorer II, and have a stupid question. I have a second coil, a slimline 8", how do you feed the coil cable up through the lower shaft? I cannot get it to feed up through there. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Grizzel]

n/t

 

[iskirkra]

My manual does not show how to feed the cable through the lower shaft, it does show how to feed the cable through the upper shaft. I can feed it up through the upper shaft because it is fully open on both ends. But on the lower shaft, the end which attaches to the coil, it is not fully open and the coiled part of the cable will not feed. I guess I could tie a string on the cable and try to pull it up through.

 

[AUDuke]

Tie a cord to it and pull

 

[AUDuke]

Tie a cord to it and pull, you can't push a wet noodle but you can pull it

 

[iskirkra]

Thanks, I will try that when I get home from work.

 

[trailblazing]

Tieing a string to it and pulling it through is usually the best method. Its the one I have always used and it works.
Thanks

 

[JodyReb]

If it's a beige shaft, you place it into the grove on the underside of the shaft. If it's the graphite (black) shaft, you pull it through both the lower & upper shaft.

 

[Onus]

If you twist the curly part tight enough and get it through the rest will follow, but that is a chore. I cut a length of small diameter nylon string and dropped it into my detector bag so I could quickly pull it through and change coils in the field. Monty