OT: Best Stud Locator? (Thru drywall or stucco.) ...Jim Thompson
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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I guess I need to reword this request... all the juveniles are diverting attention from the original intent :-(
Actually I need an accurate locator for those _rafters_ in the ceiling so I can hang a ladder hoist. ...Jim Thompson
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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I guess I need to reword this request... all the juveniles are diverting attention from the original intent :-(
Actually I need an accurate locator for those _joists_ in the wall framing so I can hang some heavy tools. ...Jim Thompson
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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Good point. This house... they even used a foil barrier on the roof plywood! ...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
The electric bill here is running about 30% of that of the previous house. ...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I usually use a Zircon StudSensor. I've had various models. I have almost always used them on drywall. Useful features are an LED or LCD bar graph of signal strength, and what they call "deepscan" mode, which seems to up the transmit power or receive sensitivity a little bit. (I think these are ultrasonic but I'm not sure.) The fancier models now have metal and electric-field detection; I've never used one like that so I don't know how useful they are.
All of the Zircons I've used have a "calibrate" step, where you put it on the wall and push the button, and then it beeps to let you know it's ready. Every once in a while you manage to calibrate it right on top of a stud, which makes it act weird when you move off the stud. Solution: move it six inches any direction and recalibrate.
If cost is absolutely no object, buy a FLIR camera. When I had the inspection done on this house, the inspector had one, and I looked over his shoulder; you could easily see the studs when he pointed it at the outside walls, and the joists in the ceiling were also discernible. (It probably helped that it was an 0 F day outside, and the furnace in the house had been running for about an hour at that point.)
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