In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:45:35 -0400, Todesco
wrote:

10 years ago I installed a post lamp in the front of my property. The
house builder left a 2" plastic conduit (maybe 100 feet) from the house
to the area where the post light was to be installed. I put a 4" square
plastic box at each end of the conduit as ground level. The house end
is no problem as it is in the asphalt driveway. At the house end, I
connected an underground "romex" to a breaker on the panel. At the
other end, I connected 2 underground "romex", one to the post light and
one to an outlet, some 25' away. Through the years, the outside box has
disappeared and I can't find it. I've tried raking up the leaf mulch.
Nope. I've also tried one of the non touch voltage testers. Nope.
I've tried a tracing unit connecting a signal to the power line and
snooping with the other end. Nope! I don't have a metal detector.
Not sure where to go from here. Any great ideas out there?


Well I checked Amazon for ground penetrating radar and they actually
have something but it's $1350.

https://www.amazon.com/Leica-Geosyst...ef=sr_1_1_sspa
Goes up to 33 feet deep.


Check to see if there is a tool library in your town.

There are two in Baltimore, and they have a lot of great hand and power
tools though they didn't have this one. Still, yours might.

The rental for a power hammer that Home Depot wanted iir $40 for 4 hours
was $20 for a week, but at this one it's supposed to be only for
community projects, not home. Still, they don't send a warden with the
tool. (And right now they're only doing covid projects, whatever those
might be.)


Or maybe some electrician with the right too. will do this for ???
Should only take 10 minute of his time but I know there's a minimum,
especially when a special tool is involved.


In indianapolis we had a wall switch for a light post near the street,
but no post. I don't know how we were supposed to find it in 1960. I
don't even know if the conduit was in place, maybe just the switch.