Electronic stud/cable finder - budget

Surely that would take less time than getting a new one! :-)

A cheap stud finder is a magnet - use it to find the plasterboard fixings...

Cut the rotten connector off, hold the wires on the battery. Get new connec tor or clean old one.

I've got one I made long ago, cost was a hex invertor & a few small passive s, so under £1

NT

Yes just strip the top off the old battery from a smoke alarm and solder that on, making sure its not backwards of course. Brian

Not in my experience.

And I wouldn't be surprised to find a repair taking an hour, once all the issues of modifying the case and/or battery cover to provide suitable clearance are sorted. I'd go down David's route myself at that price level.

(Having just thrown away a box full of broken electronic gadgets that I'd had for years in case they contained something that might be worth salvaging)

Now scrapped it because I dug out a connector and some crimps but when I started stripping back the wires the metal cores were rotten - presumably because the battery contents had wicked up inside the wire.

Never mind, when I was looking for the crimps I found another (Lidl) meter which I had forgotten I had. I think I bought it for the wireless room measurement.

Now trying to work out why there appears to be so much wiring where I want to put the screws in.

Cheers

Dave R

Why are those PP3 battery connectors always so delicate?