Wanted: Probe! Will buy or trade bottles :-)

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: xxfollyxx

Actually got the spring steel in the junkyard in your neck of the woods RICK. HARRYS, in Allentown, awesome place.

I had a bolt tacked on a few inches up and grinded it into a cone shape. It widens the hole so there isn't fiction all the way down the rod, making it easier to push in, and picks up some fill

Oh yeah Harry's,we pulled a few engines from that yard.[]
I get my steel from the fire Dept now,they practice on old cars,burn them smash them etc. We got permission to get the trunk steel

 

[willieboy]

Grinding a point on the tip of the rod is, well.............pointless. Welding a ball bearing is one way to tip it but by simply adding some brass or hard welding rod and a bit of grinding does the trick much better. I've gotten pretty good at brazing an enlarged area on the tip of the probe. It will last quite a while and doesn't heat the tip of the rod as much. For the softer Florida sandy areas I like a 5' probe because you can work it at an angle which sometimes seems to cover more potential area.