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Old 26-04-2009, 11:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
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How to use Makita Stud Detector?
Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but I have just borrowed a Makita metal/wire/stud detector from someone and I dont have the faintest idea how to use it

I need it to find somewhere suitable in the living room ceiling for a projector mount and a manual projector screen.

I have the detector set to find studs but it seems to be beeping pretty much all the time?

Cany anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or if there are any on-line instructions for this things.
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Re: How to use Makita Stud Detector?
Your doing nothing wrong, the detectors are a waste of space I have tried using one and ended up taking it back for a refund.
You are better off using a very fine screwdriver and putting holes in the ceiling to find the joists. Once you have found one they will be around 16" centres or 400mm.

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Re: How to use Makita Stud Detector?
i had one, and if the power socket on the wall i was testing was switched on id get millions of false beeps, as soon as i turned the wall sockets off on the wall it worked fine.
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i had one, and if the power socket on the wall i was testing was switched on id get millions of false beeps, as soon as i turned the wall sockets off on the wall it worked fine.
Same here, worked fine once the electricity was off (the meter was on the same wall).
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Re: How to use Makita Stud Detector?
Thanks for the replies. Kind of figured it was not that great a peice of kit as I seemed to be getting beeps all the time....even if it was knowere near the wall!

I ended uyp sorting it last night though. was giving the stud detector another rty and, in between all the random beeps, there was one area in the right vacinity where I wanted to mount the projector that kept giving a beep.

I took the detector away and gave the ceiling a gentle tap in that area to see if it sounded different......and about two inches to the left a couple of the nails holding the plasterboard to a stud popped straight out.

So, thanks to the shoddy build quality on new builds, all I needed to find a stud was my fist :-D
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