I didn't build it, just bought it to see if it worked. Give the people that built it the grief. Someone asked how they worked. I had one, that's how it worked, I responded with the low tech info I had. I guess you could tack a pic to the pointer and make it work better. Dale Botkin wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Larry Williams wrote: > > > The one I bought consists of a magnet on a pointer. Move the thing > > around, find a nail, stud found! > > Unfortunately if someone like me nailed up the drywall, you may have just > found one edge of said stud. Fortunately I don't build houses for a > living. I prefer the cpacitive/inductive/whatever type that finds the > edges and the middle of the stud. > > Dale > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body