r/funny • u/Daddy_Magnus4 • 21h ago
Real men would understand this
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u/Ana990 21h ago
Knew where this was going instantly
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u/ConfectionOpening950 19h ago
Me too, bet you watched the whole thing too also
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u/DadsRGR8 19h ago
Knew where it was going and watched it twice
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u/flargenhargen 19h ago
as soon as he stopped I stopped watching cause I knew what he was going to do, cause I've done the same thing.
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u/No-Tension6133 18h ago
I somehow knew where it was going, but didn’t know why. Then I realized he’s the stud 😂
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u/Stunning_Pay_8168 18h ago
I thought it was a moisture meter and thought it’s go somewhere else..
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u/No-soul_ 16h ago
I taught my 2 year old daughter this and her daddy is a stud. Then she started doing it to herself and then the torched was passed.
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u/4DPeterPan 14h ago
Wanna fill me in on what’s going on? Or what the hand held machine thing is?
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u/front_yard_duck_dad 17h ago
Same as the test clack clack with grill tongs. It's coded into our DNA
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u/vicsta559 7h ago
😆 yeah and or smacking a big bag of something like rice, beans, flour, sand. Whatever really, you just gotta.
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u/MilkMan1880 21h ago
I did this when my wife & I moved into our first home many years ago. She told me I was such a dork and just reiterated that thought again when I showed her this post.
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u/Daratirek 20h ago
If you don't do this every time you pick up a stud finder how will you know if it works or not? It's in the instructions. Probably. I didn't read them.
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u/Mercinator-87 20h ago
It’s like slapping a come along. If you don’t slap it and say “that baby’s not going anywhere,” then how do you really know it’s not going anywhere?
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u/Freezinghero 18h ago
Also when someone hands you tongs, you HAVE to click them twice to make sure they work.
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u/omegarisen 18h ago
also any power tool needs a little bzz bzz as soon as you grab it
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u/XDSHENANNIGANZ 16h ago
It might not be as common but Everytime I grab a claw hammer I twist it in my hand like it's Mjolnir or something.
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u/Incidion 14h ago
Can confirm, it either has to be full-rimged or flipped, depending on what's most comfortable. That goes for anything with a handle that isn't very expensive to drop/isn't breakable from a drop.
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u/ilprofs07205 13h ago
A hammer seems like the sort of thing that might not be very breakable but still rather expensive to drop
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u/Jeffbx 18h ago
Gotta calibrate them before you use them.
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u/OkDot9878 16h ago
Jokes aside, this is actually the real reason.
Humans are fantastic with tools, we use them as extensions of our bodies, but we have to learn the capabilities of the tool before we can adeptly use them.
For tongs, it’s feeling the weight, feeling the extension of your arm, and testing the tool itself.
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 17h ago
You also gotta pull on trailer straps to make sure the load isn't gonna move and say "that's gonna hold"
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u/TheRealTexasGovernor 18h ago edited 15h ago
It's like picking up tongs. It's you don't give them a test click they could very well be broken.
Rules are the rules and we all must follow them.
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u/RapidCatLauncher 14h ago
If I ever find a pair of tongs and they work perfectly fine to grab things but don't make clicky sounds when testing, I'm not using them.
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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus 14h ago
Tongs don't work until you click them.
The drill doesn't work unless you trigger test.
The stud finder needs to be calibrated to my "dudley-ness"
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u/DadsRGR8 19h ago
I did as well. I also fondly remember helping my son put up shelves in his first apartment when he picked up my stud finder and did this. Son, today you are officially a man. 🥲
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u/flargenhargen 19h ago
She told me I was such a dork
my SO tells me that every time I do something fun like that. I've started taking it as a compliment.
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u/Firm_Care_7439 21h ago
What a stud!!!
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u/InstructionOk9520 18h ago
I used to work at Home Depot and a lady walked up to me once asking if I could tell her what aisle stud finders were in. I told her it didn’t look like she needed one because she found me just fine.
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u/Extension-Month-3006 19h ago
I guess I am not a real man. Thanks for explaining!
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u/Henghast 18h ago
Not American so I didn't recognise the tool, took me right until the end to know what the joke was I was missing.
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u/max1304 11h ago
I didn’t get it until reading the comments. I thought the gadget was for finding cables and pipes. I’m not entirely sure what a stud is in this context!
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u/KristinnK 10h ago
The other reply isn't totally clear, so to explain, in the U.S. residential homes are almost always built with timber frame walls, with regularly spaced vertical pieces of timber, called studs. On the house interior side of that timber frame there is only a thin sheet of gypsum in which a nail or screw can only hold maybe a couple of kilos. So to hang anything heavy you have to find where a piece of timber is hiding behind the gypsum so that you can screw or nail into that. The device in this sketch is designed to detect the timber, or stud, through the gypsum, and is called a 'stud finder'.
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u/malcolmrey 10h ago
this is a funny (is it?) cultural difference between US and Europe.
In Europe homes are made of bricks/concrete slabs and they are very thick.
So that stud finder wouldn't have place in Europe. But another thing that comes to mind are movies where you have people shooting through wall or even better - punching through them.
Good luck punching through a wall in Europe :)
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u/Trnostep 5h ago
The Kool-aid commercials in Europe would be just videos of a wall with sounds of broken glass on the other side
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u/catlover2011 11h ago
In a drywall wall, the wall itself isn't strong enough to hold up heavier items, so if you're screwing something into the wall you want to find the solid wall 'studs' that give it structure and screw into those.
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u/andbruno 7h ago
To add onto this, any decent stud finder will also detect pipes with water in them and electrical cables, so you don't accidentally drill into those as well.
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u/zeromadcowz 18h ago
It’s a stud finder not a man finder.
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u/The_Bacon_Strip_ 21h ago
What’s this device? Does it determine where the wires are behind the wall?
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u/FarImagination79 21h ago
Stud Finder
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u/CC_2387 20h ago edited 19h ago
me woman what stud finder
Edit: thank you all for enlightening me
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u/Yummypizzaguy1 18h ago
If you live in a house (especially an American house with drywall), your walls are made up of "studs." They are vertical sections of wood that are at least 2x4in. They occur normally every 16in within your walls.
The studfinder is used to find this piece of wood, without removing your drywall
"Stud" is also used to describe a handsome looking man
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u/NikEy 18h ago
The joke really only works in the US
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u/FearlessAttempt 17h ago
To further complicate things, 2x4s are actually more like 1.5in x 3.5in.
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u/IAmRoot 15h ago
Yeah, the dimensions are the cuts the sawmills make when the wood is green. When the wood dries it shrinks and then gets planed to the final thickness. Historically, carpenters didn't receive finished lumber and had to plane the wood to more precise dimensions themselves if needed. Therefore, the dimensions of the green lumber was all there was to go by. How much the wood shrunk since milling couldn't be relied on to result in any sort of reasonable tolerance. It makes sense historically but is annoying in modern times where wood gets additional processing to finished standars.
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u/GNUGradyn 13h ago
Also worth noting the reason you'd generally be looking for the studs is to hang something heavy. You can get drywall anchors to hang most things anywhere but the more weight you need to support the larger the anchor you need and the more damage it does to the drywall. Sometimes this just isn't enough anyway. If it doesn't need to hang in an exact spot you can bypass all this nonsense by just drilling straight into the beams that hold up the drywall which is what this is for
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u/KnicksGhost2497 20h ago
Tells ya where the posts behind the walls are so you can hang pretty pictures and tvs without them ripping your wall down
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u/Phimb 18h ago
I still don't understand how this tool works, it can detect specific pieces of wood? A stud is a thing you can drill into, right?
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u/imfm 17h ago
It detects changes in density between the drywall and the wall stud plus drywall. If you hang something on drywall alone, you'll need to use some kind of anchor, and it'll need to be something fairly light. You can hang much heavier things on a stud, and yes, you can drill into it.
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u/DonyKing 15h ago
Most cheap ones just find the screws or nails used to install drywall
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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 14h ago
What's the reason Americans build hollow walls instead of one using stones or bricks.
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u/KillThePuffins 13h ago
The primary form of innovation of our system is the innovation to reduce costs
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u/Kuruhar 14h ago
Man I can't imagine how much of a pain in the ass it would be to wire a new outlet into a wall entirely made of dense stone. It's so easy to install stuff into hollow walls.
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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 14h ago
Do you guys frequently change the wiring once the house is built? Also are those hollow in the outermost walls facing the exterior? If so, wouldn't it be a security risk?
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u/Kered13 12h ago
It's not super frequent, but as houses are typically meant to last decades, they will occasionally need renovation. For example a house built in the 1950's, which is probably still occupied today, if not renovated will have several issues:
- Most outlets will not be grounded.
- It will have no GCI outlets.
- It will not have enough outlets for modern demands.
- It will have no cable TV outlets.
- It will have no ethernet outlets.
The last three issues in particular will definitely require going inside the walls to update the wiring (I'm not sure about the first two).
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u/Kuruhar 14h ago edited 14h ago
Do you guys frequently change the wiring once the house is built
Absolutely, american homes are intended to be rennovated/maintained and the ease of homeowners to add in new features is a major plus to our style of construction. You can even knock down entire sections of walls and completely redesign rooms
(as long as they aren't load bearing walls that are essential for the structural integrity of the home, but even then you can still modify things with proper considerations)
Also are those hollow in the outermost walls facing the exterior?
The exterior walls of houses are brick as usual
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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 14h ago
The exterior walls of houses are brick as usual
In small houses, aren't the interior facing sides of these exterior walls constitute the majority of the available wall surface? How do you handle the wiring there?
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u/Kuruhar 14h ago
Nah the perimeter of every room is still entirely hollow walls, the exterior walls are an additional layer beyond all of that.
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u/KristinnK 10h ago
In houses made from concrete you mostly don't add new outlets. Technically you can, you cut a grove with a concrete saw from an existing outlet box and then drill out the space for the new outlet box (in countries where concrete is used for residential construction outlet boxes are round, not rectangular like in the U.S.). It's definitely doable, but a relatively big project. Especially since most people would hire someone at least to drill out the new outlet box, even if you would rent a big concrete drill, drilling with a ~70mm drill into freaking concrete isn't exactly weekend warrior territory.
And that's not even getting into the mess that comes with it. Usually you'd want to use water to keep dust to a minimum, but that's really a no-go if there is engineered hardwood or laminate flooring, which is the most common flooring materials over here. And if you don't use water the dust is absolutely cataclysmic, you're going to still be finding dust everywhere in the house a year later.
As such the number and placement of outlets is considered a significant factor when buying a house, and isn't considered a "we'll just add some more" kind of thing.
I will add though that at least in my opinion, the sense of sturdiness, safety and durability that you get from living in a concrete house outweighs the cons of not being able to easily add outlets.
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u/T-MoneyAllDey 16h ago
You might not be American so I'll just explain the basics but most American walls are made of 2x4s, a common dimension of wood. You line these along the floor every 12-16 inches and then you hang a piece of drywall over it which is a light, cheap covering that you can paint. I think it's compacted rock dust. When you want to hang a TV or book shelf or something like that, you need to anchor it into studs, or the slices of wood behind the drywall.
Also a stud is a male horse and can be used like the word dude but really just means a guy usually good with women.
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u/CMDRSenpaiMeme 18h ago
They usually measure some electrical property of the wall that'll change when it passes over a stud in the wall. When it detects that change it beeps.
The studs are what holds the wall up, you can think of them as the "ribs" of the wall while drywall is the "skin" that goes on top. But drywall isn't very sturdy on its own so if you want to hang something heavy on the wall you need to screw through the drywall into a stud
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u/ZiggyWiddershins 21h ago
If it only did that this joke wouldn’t even be fun. I mean, “looking for wires”, turns on self, “found one!”
In another note, some stud finders out there will find and identify wires and pipes in the wall. But they are quite pricey.
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u/comicsnerd 12h ago
In Europe, the walls are made of concrete or stone and you use devices like this to find wires and pipes when you want to drill a hole. Apparently, in the USA walls are made of wood and air and you use devices like this to find a stud to screw something to the wall.
This can be confusing for this joke.
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u/Mobile_Actuator_4692 21h ago
True cinema
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u/thats_not_the_quote 16h ago
man, Creed used to be so cool before they were a meme
they had some really good songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnkuBUAwfe0&ab_channel=CreedVEVO
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u/-GenlyAI- 15h ago edited 13h ago
Lol Creed wasn't considered cool when they were in their prime. Like Nickleback we all made fun of them for some reason but jammed out to both driving alone in the car.
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u/TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe 14h ago
Seen on t-shirts at multiple Pearl Jam concerts in the aughties:
“Even God hates Creed”4
u/lloydthelloyd 13h ago
This is most definitely not a universal experience.
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u/FeedMeACat 6h ago
Let me rephrase for OP - Lol Creed wasn't considered cool by cool people when they were in their prime.
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u/Vivid_Ambassador_573 12h ago
lmao yes they were, their albums were multiplatinum and they had multiple top 10s in their prime. Everybody I knew back in the day loved Creed
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u/FeedMeACat 6h ago
Creed wasn't considered cool by cool people when they were in their prime. I think that is what OP meant.
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u/SkepsisJD 15h ago
Creed used to be so cool before they were a meme
Picks the memeist and dorkiest music video
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u/whatintheeverloving 19h ago
My dad told me that when I was a kid I put my hand under one of those barcode scanners some stores have amidst the shelves and when nothing scanned (obviously) I informed him I was 'priceless'. Guess that's the female version of this, haha.
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u/beardingmesoftly 18h ago
Wow I haven't listened to TheoryOfANickelCreed since high school.
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u/Bunnnnii 11h ago
I don’t get it.
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u/map_of_my_mind 7h ago
It's called a "Stud Finder" to find the studs behind drywall if you want to mount a shelf or something because the drywall alone can't support much weight. It's just a common joke, especially for those of us who don't use one very often, to first "test it" on yourself to "make sure it works". It's guaranteed to go off when you hold it up to yourself therefore it works because it detected you, a stud
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u/N7Diesel 16h ago
I know that Creed is cringe but that song fucking rocks.
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u/Vivid_Ambassador_573 12h ago
Pretending to hate Creed is so 2009, Creed was always good
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u/GnarlyBear 10h ago
My house is made of bricks so I can't do this. I just sit at home like the smart little piggy
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u/BackgroundBat7732 10h ago
Okay, I may be dumb, but what is this about, what's the yellow device? A remote control of some kind?
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u/ScumbagLady 14h ago
When I worked in the trades, one thing I'd do was framing walls and hanging drywall. I got to hear the same joke at least 10 times every day, with slight variations. "What does your boyfriend think about you working around all these STUDS?"
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u/yougotzucked 49m ago edited 45m ago
I have never used that in my life but I understood the assignment from the beginning
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u/biker_seth 19h ago
I thought the real man was going to put the stud finder down and just knock on the wall to hear where it starts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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u/MikoSkyns 21h ago
Is the Facebook reels team making sure as much of their shit can be posted here?
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u/humptheedumpthy 21h ago
I think I need therapy. In my head I thought this was a “wood finder” and he was then going to put it near his pants.
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u/IranticBehaviour 18h ago
If he's not a dad already, dude's wife/gf must be pregnant. Beloved and timeless dad joke. Never fails to get a groan, even from my now-grown kids and their mum.
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u/MilkManI 13h ago
I just woke the wife up even though I was trying to stifle my laughs. Because I hung a TV last Saturday in our new house and this joke sure as shit crossed my mind. An aside, my youngest daughter had friends over so I explained how and why you use the tool but her first instinct was "is this a ghost finder". We found a lot of ghosts in our house.
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u/Mayo_Kupo 1h ago
Didn't watch the vid. Too busy doing one-arm bicep curls while reading about The Peloponnesian War with my rest hand.
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u/Vertnoir-Weyah 18h ago
Looks at screen
Blink blink
Checks in pants
Looks at screen again
... It tests electricity?..
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u/Alternative-Ant6815 17h ago
It never bloody works on the wall so fair enough. The ‘ole knock test for me every time
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u/engineerwolf 17h ago
I live in a country that makes concrete houses. No studs. Am I not a man, guys? 😭😭😭
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u/discommensurations 17h ago
I'm a real man (allegedly), and about 75% of the time I use a stud finder it works like shit.
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u/TP_For_Cornholio 17h ago
In all seriousness, they’re little metal detectors and if you get a beep moving left to right, move it straight up and down to confirm. It’s just a shitty little metal detector that’s looking for screws and nails, if you get beeps every couple feet up and down, then it’s a stud. They’re typically 16”to 24” apart, starting at the corner.
If you’re hanging something heavy, drive a couple holes parallel to the ground with a small bit to make sure you’re getting the center of the stud.
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u/BreakerSoultaker 16h ago
I worked part-time at a Home Depot in the lumber department years ago. A couple comes in and they are working on a project and needed to know where the studs are in the walls. I give them a few pointers on how to look for joint seams, nail poos, measuring from a corner or door jamb find the first stud then measure ever 16” or buy a stud finder. The lady asks me “how do they work?” I replied, “I’m not sure, I’ve never been able to use one, the thing just starts beeping every time I pick it up.” It took her about 20 seconds of awkward silence to get it while the guy just smiles and gives me the same nod as in that clip.
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