I found this bargain at a garage sale/give-away. I installed a 9V battery. Nothing seems to happen.
Is it familiar to anyone?
Thanks,
John
I found this bargain at a garage sale/give-away. I installed a 9V battery. Nothing seems to happen.
Is it familiar to anyone?
Thanks,
John
https://gavshop.co.uk/homenet-tracke...tor-4117-p.asp
Apparently it is a pipe, cable and joist detector
Last edited by John Stankus; 05-30-2020 at 7:15 PM. Reason: Proving it was a mistake that I was on my high schools UIL spelling team in 1981
Thank you, John!
I will check out the link and see what more I can learn.
John
I read about the CH Hanson stud detector which depends only on rare earth magnets. I had some small 6 mm disks, so I cut about 15" of sewing thread and used a bit of Scotch Magic Mending tape (easy to clean off) to attach it to one end of the thread. I slowly lifted the thread and magnet up a wall 16" away from a corner, hoping to encounter a sheet-rock screw. The result is in the attached image. The magnet is hanging dead center at 16" from each edge of a 32" wide wall. I even know that I don't want to drive a hanger in exactly this spot, but a little up or down should work well.
This has to be the cheapest stud finder out there, bar none.
John
Thanks, Mike, for your response.
I find that taking these added steps:
1) Checking up and down the path of the 'putative' stud improves the accuracy of the stud location.
2) Using the time-honored method of drilling a 1/16" hole 3/4" on either side of the magnetically found average distance lends further confidence that there is solid wood, i.e., a real stud, to which the sheet-rock is attached.
Thanks again,
John