Re: radar

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.

Some time back, a friend used a grid dip meter to find the nails (studs and whatever). IIRC, the coils were about that size.

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.

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

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.

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

Once you find one, the rest should be easy if the guy who framed the house did so correctly.

Lotsa luck with that one.

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.