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    With our current projects having large amounts of demolition I知 finding I知 salvaging some nice old hardwood and I知 going to repurpose a bit of it. Does anyone use a metal detectors like I see for sale at carbatec etc? Waste of time and money? Thoughts please. Bear in mind I知 using my old style straight knives planers which I can sharpen myself, and I have a lot of sets of knives.

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    I have a Metal Detector I bought from Carbatec about 6-7yrs ago, works well and saved me a few times
    Similar to this one but from memory I didn't pay what this one is advertised for!
    Cheers, crowie

    Carbatec Metal Detector | Carbatec

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    I've denailed many meters of old HW. I always use a metal detector, it was from carbatec but I don't think this model is still available. There is ALWAYS one or two you cant see. The screws that have the head broken off are the worst. The wood sort of closes over the remains of the screw but they will take a big bite out of your knives.
    Those were the droids I was looking for.
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    Yep, me three!-I have also the one shown (purchased over fifteen years back) and pretty sure it was well less than $50.00 from Carbatec.

    Also and as mentioned above, there will always be a 'sneaky' bit of metal that ends up gapping your thicknesser blades.
    I bought a Taiwanese made 400mm thicknesser from Gasweld that was used specifically for shoving recycled hardwood though-Couldn't kill it and is still operating fine after 20 years! The only items that wore out were the roller bushes and the serrated infeed roller, which were still available and replaced.
    Have an old Robland for machining the finer timbers...

    The rewards you get from seeing the recycled timber that comes out the 'other side' of the planer is just Gold-Cheers C.R.

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    I'm pretty sure the Carbatec ones are the same as the $20 ones on ebay although the CT one pictured has an earpiece plugged into where I insert a 9V power pack. (I've had my ebay one for many years problem free)
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    Had a Garrett Super Scanner at my old work (the wand all the airport security guys have), not sure if it's 3 times better than the Carbatec one, but you definitely want something

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    I use a gold detector. The long arm allows me to run over timber in a pile or large logs before sawing. Wander a beach or fossick the old gold fields for a bit of R&R. It has paid for itself many times over.
    If you are only worried about ferous metal a strong magnet works well.

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    I have two sets of sacrificial blades - one in the planer, one in the thicknesser - which are very adroit at finding both metal and non-metal intrusions. When I am satisfied that all nasties have been removed, then I switch to smoothing blades, the good blades,

    When end I trialled a metal detector 10+ years ago I found that the smoothing blades still found nasties, especially non-ferrous and non-metal, that the detector missed. So I by-passed the middle man.

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