Thread 2937802

Would a metal detector pick up aluminum nails?
The neighbor hired mestizos to do their roof and siding and the old stuff was held on with aluminum nails so now I got a bunch of them in the grass I have to find.

No, aluminum isn't metal

>>2937803
I heard they can have trouble with aluminum and they are small nails, not like aluminum cans. I wouldn't be buying some expensive one so I just want to see if anyone has experience with doing it.

>>2937805
Just use a magnet

>>2937807
They are aluminum, I only found out they were such because the magnet broom wouldn't pick them up.

>>2937808
They're metal bro, a magnet will pick them up

Retard,
Magnets only pick up ferrous metals like steel and iron.

>>2937805
I would think any decent metal detector should be able to pick up aluminum as they also pick up other non magnetic materials.

>>2937847
>>2937853
>>2937807
>>2937802 (OP)

diamond is the hardest metal

>>2937873
Death is the hardest metal

>>2937873
>diamond is the hardest metal
My cock is harder...

>>2937873
maddick is the hardest metal

just tell your neighbor to pick up all the nails or you're going to take him to court for all your medical bills for stepping on them.

>>2937847
Why do dumbasses loudly proclaim things that are obviously false as though they are experts? Basically every single decent metal detector will detect non ferrous metals because they induce current in metals by projecting magnetic fields which can then be detected by the metal detector

>>2937940

Did you even read his post???

No one is that retarded

>>2937873
Doesn't a pound of diamond weight like 5 pound though?

>>2937941
On 4chan (all of which is /b/ however flavored) many Anons are that retarded and worse.

>>2937802 (OP)
Yes a metal detector will pick up aluminium nails without a problem, as long as it's a half decent metal detector and not a $70 junk.

t. metal detectorist

>>2937944
no that's lead and feathers

>>2937847
Er hello? Just use an aluminum magnet?

>>2937944
no, i think you're right.

>>2937944
It actually only weighs .82 pounds, since you'd be using troy pounds

>>2938021
you're damn right. /diy/ is full of scientologists. best and brightest!

Aluminum nails…..wait for it……hahahahahahahahahahah

>>2937802 (OP)
>the old stuff was held on with aluminum nails

Enjoy your mesothelioma because that was probably asbestos siding if it was on with aluminum nails

I don't understand why people pretend to be mentally retarded.

>>2938333
>pretend
Czeching those digits, fren.

>>2937944
1 krat is 24 kg everybode knows that

>>2937802 (OP)
use a large shopvac with the floor cleaning bar attachment to suck them into the vac. You can put an old pillowcase around the motor and filter to save them from any inadvertent impacts. Use some elastics to hold it on there. A big poweful shopvac like my dad has will suck these up no problem. Then fish them out afterward. It will probably suck up some leaves and rocks too but at least you can sort that stuff out easier when you can see the nails. It will be kinda loud but so what.