Lost a piece of brass

[DouglasPaul]

My story is this, I foolishly decided to work on my old early 70's telescope mount out in the yard in the grass. Dumb, yes I know. There was a little brass part that resembles one of those screwdriver bits but maybe cut in half that fell out when I wasn't paying attention. I crawled on my hands and knees for an hour and couldn't find it. So I decided to get a Harbor Freight metal detector and tried that with no prior experience.

I think I just found a new hobby to compliment telescopes, especially in cloudy weather which is common here. I would appreciate any tips or suggestions of threads to help me learn how to try and narrow my search to the object I'm looking for if at all possible, seem like there is a ton of objects where it was lost. Maybe a way to keep the depth at or near the surface?
I'm just now starting to understand how much time is needed to get adept at this.

Thanks in advance and looking forward to learning about all this.

 

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[DouglasPaul]

The $15 one was what I was referring to for that purpose. It should be able to find a coin sized metal object on the surface or near an inch down.

It may struggle to detect something smaller sized like 1 cm diameter, and the build quality may not last long. But any pinpointer that isn't high end $85+ would likely face similar issues.

Thanks.

 

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