Stainless steel

[fishracepoint]

Hello Everyone
I just need some clarity: No matter how I set up my detector it will not make a peep when I pass stainless steel under the coil.
300 series any size piece from a #10 sheet metal screw to a 3" long 1/2" bolt.
Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance

 

[glenn3-88]

No you aren't. I hit a coin at the beach and dug it up only to
find a soup spoon with stainless steel in words on the bottom of
the handle. I thought that was what I had hit but was wondering
why it hit on 12/34 rather than 12/45 or above. I scanned that spoon
laying on top of the sand and never got a hit until I turned the sensitivity
wide open scanned it several times and got it to make a sound one time
and I am not too sure that wasn't something in the ground up under it.
I don't know what the deal is with stainless but it just doesn't show up
at least on the 3030. There was a discussion somewhere about this anomally
somewhere on this forum but I don't remember where. There were many
detectorist that had the same problem with stainless.

 

[sprchng]

I have found a number of stainless rings usually in the 12-01 to 12-03 range. Different grades of stainless may run differently. Same with stainless bolts and washers in totlots but they seem to run much higher on the ferrous and erratic, again probably because of the grade. Always disappointing regardless.

 

[jarrow]

Is that a good thing, I don't want to dig stainless.

 

[MarkCZ]

It looks like stainless falls into the Iron range, I checked a stainless butter knife and it came at a meter reading of (7) with my F70.
A little better grade of stainless, even though it was a little smaller than the butter knife came in at (1

Mark