It absolutely would. But I thought you guys were talking about sensing from a distance.
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The thread drifted to finding studs, and looking for the nails is one way to do that. I'd prefer the radar, to see everything.
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Some time back, a friend used a grid dip meter to find the nails (studs and whatever). IIRC, the coils were about that size.
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Your idea is great though. One could take a 2x2 and place three coils at the bottom, three in the center, and three at the top of a say four foot stick.
Aligned vertically, it would keep you from getting a false reading from a drywall nail not on the stud line.
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Use an induction heater, and look for brown spots in the paint. ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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The easy ways is a neodymium magnet, but where's the fun in that :)
-Lasse
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Once I intended to hang heavy shelves and I didn't want the screws to be on the edge of each stud. I wanted the strength of having them in the center. So I crawled into the attic where the studs were visible and took exact measurements.
It would be nice if those devices indicated the left and right boundaries.
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The capacitive sensors theoretically do that. They detect capacitance thru the wall on either side of the stud. Balanced = center.
Haven't actually tested one, but it seems sound. They were very cheap, $10-$20 range IIRC.
Cheers, James Arthur
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Once you find one, the rest should be easy if the guy who framed the house did so correctly.
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Lotsa luck with that one.
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You are, of course, correct.
The days of 20 men taking two months to frame a house out with all rough cut full dimension lumber are gone.
Today, we'd be lucky if the chief contractor on the site had decent carpentry education and skill.
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-- Some do: http://www.zircon.com/products/products.html I have an old one, a "Studsensor 4", and it works great.