LOST P2D - FOUND!!!!!

[jwl]

I lost my Fenix P2D in a LARGE evergreen hedge. What I need to know is, will a metal detector find / locate an aluminum flashlight? It does have a battery installed if that would help any.

I've never really had a chance to mess with a detector so I don't know but I'm sure somebody I know has a detector I can borrow.

 

[yaesumofo]

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I suspect a metal detector will find your light...if you look in the right place.
Higher quality units will yield better results. They are also very expensive. so it may be more economical to just buy a new light. and hope that you find the old one some day.

I found a 6P on a chain link fence at a friends house once and lost it...or thought I had. over a year later my buddy said hey man come over i found something belonging to you. He had found that same 6P on the fence where I had left it over a year later. It was NONE the worse for wear. no markings what so ever and when I turned it on ...the light turned on.

The moral is you haven't lost it at all you have just lent it to nature for a while.
Yaesumofo

 

[z96Cobra]

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Another one of my (many) hobbies is... metal detecting! I've found tons of aluminum pull tabs, bottle caps, and cans (both full and empty!!!)... I can say YES a metal detector will find your P2D. Since I wanted to verify that a detector will find your P2D I did a little test in my front yard @ 11:55PM.... I used my Minelab Quattro detector and my own P2D dropped onto the front lawn and guess what... I found it!! Really I just wanted to see what kind of signal I would get on the display, but any metal detector should find your light and pretty easily too. If I was a little closer to you I would stop by and help you find it.

If you have some of the larger "rare earth" magnets, they would also grab it (I just tried it!), since the CR123 cell is magnetic. Put a few on a stick and go fishing for it in the bush.

Roger

 

[abvidledUK]

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The reflector is designed to reflect...

So, shine a bright torch into the hedge at night, you may just spot the P2D.!

 

[Dark Vapor]

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Unless the reflector is faced down in the dirt. . .(I'm just being a nuisance)

 

[jwl]

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The reflector is designed to reflect...

So, shine a bright torch into the hedge at night, you may just spot the P2D.!

Tried that last night. No luck. This hedge is REALLY thick (dense). I was laying on top of the hedge (which is where I think I lost the light).

Anyway, I have a fairly strong rare earth magnet so maybe once I locate the light I can use it to retrieve the light.

 

[Windscale]

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Keep this Hush Hush. Or else the gold rush is on!

 

[scottaw]

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Hedges grow back nicer if you give them a good chop....

 

[jwl]

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Hedges grow back nicer if you give them a good chop....

Oh YEAH! Completely removing the hedges had already been discussed before I lost the light. I'm liking that option even better now.

 

[Mad1]

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May sound silly but have you tried shaking the hedge? It may be lodged in a branch, just listen out for a dropping sound.

 

[jwl]

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May sound silly but have you tried shaking the hedge? It may be lodged in a branch, just listen out for a dropping sound.

Doesn't sound silly at all. Although, this hedge is wide enough that with a electric hedge trimmer with a 22" bar (held at arms length) you still can't reach the center of the bush going from both sides of the hedge. That would really stick to try and retrieve a light that had fallen all the way to the ground.

However, I FOUND MY P2D tonight. I was over at my grandparent-in-laws (if that's what you call them) trimming more evergreens and thought I'd try looking for the light while it was still daylight. I took a ladder and used it to reach up unto the top of the hedge where I was last night to look around and while looking around into the hedge from above, my hand, that wasn't holding the modified Mag, touched something smooth and non-plant like. I looked over by my right hand and there was my P2D, just 2 inches down from the top of the hedge stuck in the top growth.:twothumbs:rock::rock: Thank GOD!

 

[Mad1]

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Yay all safe and sound.

 

[PegAir]

I bet the hedge is relieved. :laughing:

 

[Sigman]

Really is a "suck" feeling to lose something valued and then what a positive rush to find it! :thumbsup:

 

[Windscale]

You should lose it again just to have the fun and satisfaction of finding it again!

 

[vic2367]

glad you found the light ,,

 

[BGater]

A few years back, we had a large wild rose bush growing next to our bay window. The birds used it as a 30 nest town house and in the evenings and early mornings they would raise seven kinds of heck, banging into the window and fighting. One evening I was spouting my usuall verbal assault at the goings on and my wife said "complaining wont fix anything so stop it". With that I got up and went outside. By the time the wife heard the chain saw and got to the door it was to late. Problem solved. :naughty:

That bush would have coughed it up or else. Im glad you had the patience to wait a bit.......if one of my lights was being held hostage I would have broke out the big guns ! After all, an LED is a terrible thing to waste...

As a side note, that bush was WAY less trouble and more plesant to the ears than what I had to listen to from the wife after cutting it down !

 

[TORCH_BOY]

Its good to hear that you found it