[TheForge] OT: The best stud finder yet! (Minimal iron content. The ladies s

[Bruce Freeman]

Exactly.  I described a useful tool.  It has to be used with intelligence...

>>> craig.schaefer at verizon.net 2/26/2007 3:13 PM >>>
So what you've really found is an piece of iron in the wall and are inferring that there is a stud attached to it...........


>From: Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at yahoo.com>
>Date: 2007/02/26 Mon PM 12:06:26 CST
>To: theforge <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [TheForge] OT: The best stud finder yet! (Minimal iron content. The	ladies shouldn't get their hopes up...)

>This bounced, so I'm resending it.  (Too risque' a
>title, I think.)
>
>> Having tried and discarded the old-fashioned silly
>> compass-needle-type magnetic stud finder with little
>> luck, and having recently tried two different modern
>> electronic stud, steel and electrical finders with
>> JUST AS LITTLE LUCK, I have proceded to design a
>> dime-store stud finder of my own.  Too simple to
>> patent.  Too good not to announce to the world:
>> 
>> Take a very strong small (e.g. 1/2" cylinder, 1/2"
>> long) magnet and suspend it from a string or heavy
>> thread about 3' long.  Tape the face of the magnet 
>> near the middle of a 2" square piece of stiff paper
>> (typical copy paper stock, not too thick).  
>> 
>> Before you do anything else, try it on a known nail
>> in
>> the wall.  (Usually there's SOMEWHERE where you can
>> find one easily.  Try above and either side of a
>> light
>> switch or outlet box, as these are often mounted
>> nailed to a stud.)  
>> 
>> To use the stud finder, place the paper side against
>> the wall, hold by the string about 18" from the
>> magnet.  The paper keeps the magnet from marking the
>> wall, and also keeps the magnet from rotating on the
>> end of the string.  Now oscillate the contraption
>> like
>> a pendulum, with the paper side against the wall.  
>> 
>> If your "pendulum" is 18" long, the period (back and
>> forth) will be 1 second.  If you swing it so it
>> traverses about 20", the magnet won't actually latch
>> onto the nailhead, but it will hesitate very
>> distinctly as it passes the nailhead.  
>> 
>> Move the magnet up about half the width of the
>> magnet
>> with each half-swing.  When you pass over a nail the
>> magnet will hesitate.  Now zero in on that nailhead
>> more carefully.  There'll be no question when you
>> find
>> a nailhead.
>> 
>> The assumption, of course, is that the nail is in a
>> stud.  This is not always true, so renew the search
>> in
>> smaller sweeps of the pendulum, above and below the
>> nail you just found.  Once you find two or three
>> nailheads, you can be pretty sure you've found a
>> stud.
>> 
>> Seems ridiculously simple, but this method is head
>> and
>> shoulders better than any I've ever tried before.
>> 
>> Bruce
>> NJ
>> 
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