What do you guys think of this prototype?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29771494/MetalDetecting/PlugDrill.html
There's a description on that site but it's copied here:
I wanted an easy way to dig out coin targets while metal detecting. Plus I wanted a way to easily clean up after a target dig. Lastly I wanted a way to use plastic tubing so that once the plug was dug, hopefully containing the target, I could pass my detector coil over the plug, still in the cutter tube, and detect whether I had located the target.
Features:
• It is made of ABS plumbing tubing which will not trigger a detector signal.
• The cutter tube is has a 4" opening to create the plug, which is small enough to still manage to cut but large enough to encompass most targets.
• The teeth are cut so that the sod plug fits exactly into the cutter tube.
• There is an inner plunger that is used to belly push the plug back into the hole.
Comments welcome.
NOTE: I posted this deep in this site as a comment but thought it deserved its own post. Apologizes to those on that thread.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29771494/MetalDetecting/PlugDrill.html
There's a description on that site but it's copied here:
I wanted an easy way to dig out coin targets while metal detecting. Plus I wanted a way to easily clean up after a target dig. Lastly I wanted a way to use plastic tubing so that once the plug was dug, hopefully containing the target, I could pass my detector coil over the plug, still in the cutter tube, and detect whether I had located the target.
Features:
• It is made of ABS plumbing tubing which will not trigger a detector signal.
• The cutter tube is has a 4" opening to create the plug, which is small enough to still manage to cut but large enough to encompass most targets.
• The teeth are cut so that the sod plug fits exactly into the cutter tube.
• There is an inner plunger that is used to belly push the plug back into the hole.
Comments welcome.
NOTE: I posted this deep in this site as a comment but thought it deserved its own post. Apologizes to those on that thread.