Is there a metal detector that can find platinum?
deidre asked:
I’ve asked a lot of questions concerning my earrings that I lost yesterday in the grass. I’ve purchased and taken back two different metal detectors today. I have pulled grass out around the areas that I think they may have fallen, I have waited until night and shined a flashlight on the grass to see them sparkle. Nothing. The metal detector beeps no matter what. It even beeped on it’s side, up in the air… I’m running out of steam, but refuse to give up on them. What the hell am I doing wrong? Are there any reliable metal dtectors out there. I know the earrings aren’t in the ground, maybe an inch below the ground, but I keep getting beeps for stuff I do not see. Help!!!
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I’ve asked a lot of questions concerning my earrings that I lost yesterday in the grass. I’ve purchased and taken back two different metal detectors today. I have pulled grass out around the areas that I think they may have fallen, I have waited until night and shined a flashlight on the grass to see them sparkle. Nothing. The metal detector beeps no matter what. It even beeped on it’s side, up in the air… I’m running out of steam, but refuse to give up on them. What the hell am I doing wrong? Are there any reliable metal dtectors out there. I know the earrings aren’t in the ground, maybe an inch below the ground, but I keep getting beeps for stuff I do not see. Help!!!
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May 13th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
You might want to buy a big magnet and “comb” your garden with it until your earrings are found (but it’ll take a very strong magnet to find it, as platinum is not that paramagnetic -attracted to magnets-). You could use the magnet inside a useless hard disk for this (ask your local computer wiz on where to get one).
You could calibrate your metal detector (since you already have one, and it’s a much better way to solve your problem). To do this, try to find another piece of platinum of about the same size. Also get some other pieces of metal. Moce the knobs on your detector until it only beeps when it’s over the platinum. You can repeat the test burying the metals under some soil (a couple of inches like it must be on your garden).
If you can’t get more Platinum, Gold or Silver will work more or less like Platinum.
If it has a dial, just see the value it gives when passed over gold or silver.
If it is just sound, pay attention to the noise it makes when passed over a piece of gold or silver that’s the size of your earrings.
Good luck.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Well, this may sound a little crazy but platinum doesn’t burn, so you could torch the whole dang yard and viola!, there your earings will be, sparkling in the sunlight.