Skid Plates extend the life

This may help other shameless unrepentant skid plate and coil destroyers
like myself who against the published wisdom bump ,scrape and bulldoze
around goldfields coil on the ground.

Its ticked me of for years, that a 50c piece of plastic that is pressed to cover a detector coil can cost so much.
For the 11” model you now pay around $26...

I can bust one in two weeks of detecting and keep a couple of each size in the kit at all times.

So taking inspiration from a home made coil on another forum ,
where the inventor used conduit to buffer the coil from shock and bump I looked around the shed and
spotted a roll of 25/27 mil corrugated heavy duty grey water hose.
So I cut 8” off and cut it through on the inside using garden shears, its tough stuff.
The natural coiling effect of the product means that you can slip it on the leading edge to left hand side of the coil and it will hold tightly.
Gave it a try today and it works quite well.
I seem to crack the coil covers front left and the hose gave a new lease of life to a buggered one.
It does keep the coil a couple of mil off the ground on the left part of the swing but you can compensate coming back.
Points.
It must be the heavy duty corrugated shiny black hose. The cheap brittle one won’t cut it. Got mine from Clark Rubber.

No loss of sensitivity as far as I could tell.

The fitting will shift slightly if hung up. Just tapped it back into place.

Hope this is of help to other coil scratchers.
groundrush
Also posted on Finders

Any chance of a quick piccy mate

Pete

Yes mate will try to get the son in law around to do the bizz .
Me sadly .can run a 5000 and a gps pretty well but puters na,

just in case a few of u are having problems getting a bit of life out of your skid plates..will get a few picks..

regards
oneday