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<p>[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 4245325, member: 78298"]Going to have to get a new rig. This one works perfectly fine, but the way it is designed, the 9V battery end caps break frequently. It's an inexpensive part and an easy repair, but this is what happened. The old style of this machine the batteries sat on a shelf and the wires never broke. This newer design there is not much support for the batteries. They can hang freely and tug on the cheaply made end caps and one of the leads can come off and the only way is to wire up a new one, you can't put the wire back in. Well on this model you have to jam the batteries and the wires in the compartment and they barely fit. So I told the guy who fixed it initially to make it a little shorter. And instead of making the replacement part shorter, he made the wire inside the machine shorter and every time I had to fix it, it got shorter and shorter to the point where I can't reach it anymore. My GF and I were able to do one last repair job on it, but it was a miracle and I won't be able to fix it again. Perfectly good detector useless because of one battery wire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 4245325, member: 78298"]Going to have to get a new rig. This one works perfectly fine, but the way it is designed, the 9V battery end caps break frequently. It's an inexpensive part and an easy repair, but this is what happened. The old style of this machine the batteries sat on a shelf and the wires never broke. This newer design there is not much support for the batteries. They can hang freely and tug on the cheaply made end caps and one of the leads can come off and the only way is to wire up a new one, you can't put the wire back in. Well on this model you have to jam the batteries and the wires in the compartment and they barely fit. So I told the guy who fixed it initially to make it a little shorter. And instead of making the replacement part shorter, he made the wire inside the machine shorter and every time I had to fix it, it got shorter and shorter to the point where I can't reach it anymore. My GF and I were able to do one last repair job on it, but it was a miracle and I won't be able to fix it again. Perfectly good detector useless because of one battery wire.[/QUOTE]
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