Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

My Draper one from the shed isn't working because the battery ate the
connector and I don't have time to solder on a new one at the moment.

Looking in the £10-£20 range.

Putting a couple of screws in the wall should be simple, right?


Cheers



Dave R


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On 27/03/2018 15:46, David wrote:

Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

A cheap stud finder is a magnet - use it to find the plasterboard fixings...


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David wrote:
Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

My Draper one from the shed isn't working because the battery ate the
connector and I don't have time to solder on a new one at the moment.

Surely that would take less time than getting a new one! :-)

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Yes just strip the top off the old battery from a smoke alarm and solder
that on, making sure its not backwards of course.
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David wrote:
Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

My Draper one from the shed isn't working because the battery ate the
connector and I don't have time to solder on a new one at the moment.

Surely that would take less time than getting a new one! :-)

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On 27/03/2018 16:48, Chris Green wrote:
David wrote:
Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

My Draper one from the shed isn't working because the battery ate the
connector and I don't have time to solder on a new one at the moment.

Surely that would take less time than getting a new one! :-)


Not in my experience.

And I wouldn't be surprised to find a repair taking an hour, once all
the issues of modifying the case and/or battery cover to provide
suitable clearance are sorted. I'd go down David's route myself at that
price level.

(Having just thrown away a box full of broken electronic gadgets that
I'd had for years in case they contained something that might be worth
salvaging)

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Chris Green wrote:
David wrote:
Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

My Draper one from the shed isn't working because the battery ate the
connector and I don't have time to solder on a new one at the moment.

Surely that would take less time than getting a new one! :-)

Why are those PP3 battery connectors always so delicate?

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On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:46:37 UTC+1, David WE Roberts (Google) wrote:
Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

My Draper one from the shed isn't working because the battery ate the
connector and I don't have time to solder on a new one at the moment.

Looking in the £10-£20 range.

Putting a couple of screws in the wall should be simple, right?


Cheers



Dave R

Cut the rotten connector off, hold the wires on the battery. Get new connector or clean old one.

I've got one I made long ago, cost was a hex invertor & a few small passives, so under £1


NT

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:46:32 +0000, David wrote:

Anyone recommend a budget stud/electric cable finder?

My Draper one from the shed isn't working because the battery ate the
connector and I don't have time to solder on a new one at the moment.

Looking in the £10-£20 range.

Putting a couple of screws in the wall should be simple, right?

Now scrapped it because I dug out a connector and some crimps but when I
started stripping back the wires the metal cores were rotten - presumably
because the battery contents had wicked up inside the wire.

Never mind, when I was looking for the crimps I found another (Lidl) meter
which I had forgotten I had. I think I bought it for the wireless room
measurement.

Now trying to work out why there appears to be so much wiring where I want
to put the screws in.

Cheers


Dave R


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