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Re: Utility Locators
Are you looking for old style stuff, cheap stuff or something that can help you
with a geophysical problem? There have been several magnetometers on auction
in ebay this month old & low cost.
>>> [email protected] 03/26/01 10:25PM >>>
The Proton Mag Forum
does anyone know where I can get one of the old-style locators-magnetic
needle type.this is a great forum. Thank you for any information,
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael R. Hall
To: The Proton Mag Forum
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:41 AM
Subject: Utility Locators
> At 03:24 PM 03/13/2001 -0600, Tom Alvarez wrote:
> --------------
>
> > Someday we may need to license "Well Finders", but for now to find lost
> wells our inspectors use mostly >utility locators and backhoes.
>
> Tom,
> Are those "utility locators" the old magnetic needle types used to find
> service boxes? I recently did some work for a company here in Ohio (Aqua
> Locator in Cedarville) that has made the old style locators for over 30
> years. While admittedly not in the class of a modern magnetometer, it is
> nevertheless a beautiful instrument. I also have, on loan from a local
city
> utility department, a pair of really old units. My local public library
> produced a Smithsonian Catalog of Geomagnetic Instruments which
illustrates
> the older units as being early 1900's vintage. The catalog contained some
> fascinating background information on the Earth's magnetic field and early
> research into it's nature. The photos and descriptions of the old
> instruments was very interesting, most of them being painstakingly
hand-built.
>
> As a sailor, I was already obsessed with compasses and navigation, but the
> work for Aqua Locator opened up a new world for me. I had no idea it was
so
> damned complicated!
>
> Mike Hall
> Wright State University
> Dayton, OH
>
>
> __________________________________________________ ____________________
Are you looking for old style stuff, cheap stuff or something that can help you
with a geophysical problem? There have been several magnetometers on auction
in ebay this month old & low cost.
>>> [email protected] 03/26/01 10:25PM >>>
The Proton Mag Forum
does anyone know where I can get one of the old-style locators-magnetic
needle type.this is a great forum. Thank you for any information,
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael R. Hall
To: The Proton Mag Forum
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:41 AM
Subject: Utility Locators
> At 03:24 PM 03/13/2001 -0600, Tom Alvarez wrote:
> --------------
>
> > Someday we may need to license "Well Finders", but for now to find lost
> wells our inspectors use mostly >utility locators and backhoes.
>
> Tom,
> Are those "utility locators" the old magnetic needle types used to find
> service boxes? I recently did some work for a company here in Ohio (Aqua
> Locator in Cedarville) that has made the old style locators for over 30
> years. While admittedly not in the class of a modern magnetometer, it is
> nevertheless a beautiful instrument. I also have, on loan from a local
city
> utility department, a pair of really old units. My local public library
> produced a Smithsonian Catalog of Geomagnetic Instruments which
illustrates
> the older units as being early 1900's vintage. The catalog contained some
> fascinating background information on the Earth's magnetic field and early
> research into it's nature. The photos and descriptions of the old
> instruments was very interesting, most of them being painstakingly
hand-built.
>
> As a sailor, I was already obsessed with compasses and navigation, but the
> work for Aqua Locator opened up a new world for me. I had no idea it was
so
> damned complicated!
>
> Mike Hall
> Wright State University
> Dayton, OH
>
>
> __________________________________________________ ____________________
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