Attic Treasure

[Lite2Win]

Please help me before my wife divorces me
I was up in the attic and when I went to brush the insulation off my pants my wedding ring slipped off my finger and dropped down in the insulation. I try looking for it with no luck. Insulation is 18" deep. I was wondering if a metal detector would be able to find it?? My concern is all the nails and wiring up there - would that just confuse the detector?? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. And yes, she already knows about it :-(


Thank you,
Steve
Arlington, TX

 

[dirtdigginlady]

Wow if you know pretty much where it dropped in, I would think you could find it with a very small foot on a detector or maybe even better with a good pin pointer so you could avoid the surrounding nails etc.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

In the general area where you lost it should be able to locate it with the tector.
Likely will come in the pull tab/foil signal if its gold
.Higher number if its silver.
Unfortunately nail s copper wiring and other metals there will make you pull your hair out.
Good luck in finding it !!

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Good Luck Ron

 

[dahut]

Get a small coil on your detector, turn the sensitivity down and discriminate out iron. A ring will come through pretty smoothly.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[edjcox]

Blown insulation?

If so go and get a shopvac and vacuum away the insulation in a grid about where you lost the ring....

 

[silversmith]

If all else fails.....! Get a 3\4 inch drill and drill a hole through the ceiling, about where you lost the ring. Get some wire and hang an empty peach can under the hole. Bring in your 13 year old son's CD player and point the speakers at the ceiling and turn the thing wide open playing some RAP CRAP. Go away and shut the door coming back now and the to listen for a rattle in the can.....there's your ring. Now there's 2 schools of thought on why this works. 1. Sooner or later the vibration slowly works the ring down through the insulation, and then vibrates all over the ceiling 'till it falls through the hole..... 2. After a couple of minutes, the ring can't stand that noise any longer jumps threw the hole in an attempt to escape........There you are. All you need now is a can of ceiling patch compound.

Of course, divorce ain't so bad either. You get to play the game again. Worth considering.

 

[flash5153]

Remove the detector head from the shaft and the coil , wt no shaft can move around a little better. Holding the smallest coil you have in your hand wt the sens turned down all the way. Just need to keep the coil wire away from the coil.

 

[Lite2Win]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Silversmith - I'll save yours for last
I'll let y'all know how it turns out.

Steve