Hello, folks

quick query - is this :

Zircon Electronic Multi Material Scanner

Item Number 553241

QVC Price £49.66

UK Postage & Packaging £3.45

The zircon scanner which appears to be the only useful pipe/wire/stud
finder, or is it something else.

And if so, is the price reasonable, please?

I'm not bothered about the very best price, it's easy to deal with this
bunch (whispers - don't tell anyone, I've got an account)

mike

mike ring wrote:

quick query - is this :

Zircon Electronic Multi Material Scanner

Item Number 553241

QVC Price ï½£49.66

UK Postage & Packaging ï½£3.45

The zircon scanner which appears to be the only useful pipe/wire/stud
finder, or is it something else.

Nope that is the one (or should that be that is the range).

I have a Zircon Triscanner Pro that I am very pleased with - not sure
how that compares to the one your list, but I would guess the one you
list is a higher spec model.

And if so, is the price reasonable, please?

Could be. I think the one I got was about 39 from RS. Plus 5 quid for
delivery etc.


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John Rumm wrote in news:42b583ae$0$2057
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Zircon Electronic Multi Material Scanner

Item Number 553241


The zircon scanner which appears to be the only useful pipe/wire/stud
finder, or is it something else.

Nope that is the one (or should that be that is the range).

I have a Zircon Triscanner Pro that I am very pleased with - not sure
how that compares to the one your list, but I would guess the one you
list is a higher spec model.

Thanks, John. I'll try to compare them.

Sorry I couldn't give a link, not idleness, it's inside a frame, and I
couldn't make my browser go to it.

mike

mike ring wrote:

Sorry I couldn't give a link, not idleness, it's inside a frame, and I
couldn't make my browser go to it.

When I posted earlier the RS site was down, but it is back now...

The Multiscanner (product number 493-3358) does indeed seem like a
higher spec version. It has an LCD display and also projects a beam of
light to indicate the location of the edges and centre of the thing you
are detecting. This I would guess makes marking the position of what you
are looking for a bit simpler. The Triscanner pro as an LED bargraph
type of arrangement that you use to judge where things are - but then
mark the position based on a line on the case.

If you follow the "Tech Info" links on the RS detail pages you get to
some PDFs that give a fair bit more detail.

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Cheers,

John.

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When I posted earlier the RS site was down, but it is back now...

The Multiscanner (product number 493-3358) does indeed seem like a
higher spec version. It has an LCD display and also projects a beam of
light to indicate the location of the edges and centre of the thing you
are detecting. This I would guess makes marking the position of what you
are looking for a bit simpler. The Triscanner pro as an LED bargraph
type of arrangement that you use to judge where things are - but then
mark the position based on a line on the case.

If you follow the "Tech Info" links on the RS detail pages you get to
some PDFs that give a fair bit more detail.

Thanks, John, I found the RS site was down.

I don't need anything all that spectacular, just funtional, I hate wasting
monmey on non-starters.

I'll have a look at RS later, got to go out now.

(TBH I thought they were a bit of a hassle, have to have accounts, etc, and
now Maplin are all around me so it's not so hard to get bits...

mike

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mike ring wrote:
(TBH I thought they were a bit of a hassle, have to have accounts, etc,
and now Maplin are all around me so it's not so hard to get bits..

No - you can set up instant registration with RS and pay by credit card.
Their service is usually pretty quick.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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mike ring wrote:


(TBH I thought they were a bit of a hassle, have to have accounts, etc, and
now Maplin are all around me so it's not so hard to get bits...

You don't need an account for RS anymore - just order on the web site.

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Cheers,

John.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

No - you can set up instant registration with RS and pay by credit card.
Their service is usually pretty quick.

'Pretty quick', in my experience (several orders a month, over a number
of years) comes out as 'I can't remember them *ever* not delivering all
items they said were in-stock next day, and the number of
out-of-stock-at-central-warehouse items in all that time has been maybe
5'. It helps that I'm within a few miles of one of their trade counters,
and that my employer does enough business with them that they do a
delivery run up to our place every mid-morning once they've had their
delivery from their main warehouse in Corby. Stock levels at the trade
counter, though, aren't nearly as impressive - I've learned only to
expect the most common things to be available over the counter; but
again, I can't fault them in getting whatever's not there for 09:30 the
next morning.

You pay a premium for those levels of stockholding, mind... but with the
delivery being that reliable, it does mean your own stock of piece parts
can be pretty minimal.

Stefek