Garrett Ace 150/250 Coil Cover Tip

[150aceboy]

While using the ace on dry sand, i was sick of having to empty the coil cover of sand . It not only made it heavy work, but also give some false signals.
Solution - with coil cover fitted using a marker pen, i drew around the spider coil, then removed cover and used Dremmel to cut out shape of spider.
Now when using , all the coil is still protected by cover, and the problem above has been eliminated.
Good Hunting, Paul.

[handyman [Alan}]

any chance of a picture please??

cheers

[150aceboy]

Hi Alan hope these pictures help  

Picture 1 :  Shows Coil Cover when purchased.
Picture 2 :  Shows Modified cover on coil ( see how it still protects coil )
Picture 3 :  Shows Modified cover off coil.

All the best,  Paul  

[gafflad]

 cannot see why garrett made them like this and why they did not cut them out in the first place knowing it would be a problem was it just being lazzzzy

[Chef Geoff]

They don't own a Dremmel

[150aceboy]

Nice one Geoff  , and your right Gafflad, they could have done this in production, would have made things a lot easier mate. On some American sites you can see that some of their coil covers are allready like the one i alltered, don't make sense 
Ace 

[Sexy Legs (Leighton)]

Interesting, Ace. I might give that a try if I get the same problems you've had.

[Chef Geoff]

before you do Leighton, one thing to remember is that the solid bottom of the coil cover comes into it's own on stubble and tuffted grass as it means you can keep the coil in contact with the ground without the spider coil getting caught on things.

[Legacy Hunter]

Leighton listen to Chef(Geoff) I would not cut it as you will not always be using it on the beach
Debs
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