[TheForge] Stud finders/stake finder

[Michael Horgan]

Nice, Pete. Another way is the one a friend uses. He has a laser 
pointer mounted on the ceiling, pointing at the face of the stake, 
comes on with a foot switch. Makes it easy to hit that sweet spot.

At 10:37 PM 3/9/2007, you wrote:
>Even closer to on topic..
>I was taking the dents out of a deep hollow body sculpture part. The 
>dents were 18" down a skinny neck in a bulge ,on the far end of the 
>piece. None of my stakes would reach that far and it wasn't a straight shot.
>I took the end 2 1/2 feet of a 1"sucker rod and dressed out the 
>small end. Then i bent the length to fit the curves of the hollow 
>body. The wrench flats of the sucker rod fit nicely in the big vise 
>to make an upright phallic sort of stake.
>Fitted the hollow body over the upright stake, guessed at the 
>location of the hidden end of the stake and started tapping with a 
>little hammer trying to locate it. That proved to be slow and 
>frustrating. Everytime i relaxed and let the hollow body shift, i'd 
>lose the location of the backup inside.
>Finally got a strong 1"round rare earth magnet and slapped it on the 
>exterior of the dent, then waved the hollowbody around until the end 
>of the stake was pulled to the inside of the dent..worked good....pete f

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