Posted by JB(MS) on 7/19/2009, 3:00 pm
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If anyone has an older detector they would like to convert to an S pole mount, a cheap, fairly easy way to make an upper pole is to use the legs from an old aluminum lawn chair. A couple of days ago I made one for my Compass Coinhustler, in top photo, from an old lawn chair that was put out by a neighbor for the city garbage service to pick up. Bottom photo's show the parts and how I cut them. The two pieces to be used has to be lined up and cut at the right angles to butt together, but that's not hard to do. To join the two pieces together, I cut a piece of scrap tubing that would slide inside the lawn chair pieces and epoxied it to both parts, but a wooden dowel rod would work just as well if no tubing the right size is available. The chair tubing is a tad too large in diameter for the lower pole but an insert can quickly be made from a thin wall plastic pipe. It's also a little too large for a factory grip, but saturating the grip with womens hair spray will make it expand, let it slip on and it shrinks to original size when it dries. Once the parts are together it's just a matter of drilling holes in the right places to mount the armrest, detector housing and clip to hold the lower rod in. It took me maybe 45 minutes, not counting the time it took the epoxy to set, to make the one for my Coinhustler using only a hacksaw and an electric hand drill. It looks like a factory pole, except for the aluminum color, and works as well as one. Not bad for maybe a quarters worth of epoxy and less than an hour of work.
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