Where/who can I buy a nice spring steel privy probe?

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Where/who can I buy a nice spring steel privy probe?

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Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone knows people that take orders for making them. All the soil probes you can buy online are absolute garbage and bend within 2 uses.

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My Buddy I dig with just bought 2 probes but forgot who from. all his old sources dried up & he had to go through this new guy. He seems to like them, I used them & they work good. Do you want me to find out where he got them? LEON.
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Re: Where/who can I buy a nice spring steel privy probe?

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I tell everyone to go here for one.
http://www.oldwestbottles.com/Probes.php



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Thanks Daniel, I was told by another guy on a facebook group to go to that site too.
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I emailed this guy but never received a reply
http://singingprivyprobes.yolasite.com/

I'll try this suggestion:
http://www.oldwestbottles.com/Probes.php

Has anyone made their own? A thin steel rod with a tubular handle seems fairly straight forward.
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My buddy said he got his 2 probes recently from that oldwestbottle site. They seem to work good. Canhawk, you can't just run to hardware store & buy a thin steel rod & make your own. Well, you can, I did 7 years ago but it's not the same as a real probe, which uses a special spring steel, which means it bends but bends back straight again. unlike a regular steel rod that bends & stays bent, unless you physically unbend it yourself. big difference. And some are more springy then others. LEON.
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Leon wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:21 pm Canhawk, you can't just run to hardware store & buy a thin steel rod & make your own. Well, you can, I did 7 years ago but it's not the same as a real probe, which uses a special spring steel, which means it bends but bends back straight again. unlike a regular steel rod that bends & stays bent, unless you physically unbend it yourself. big difference. And some are more springy then others. LEON.
Leon, I have heard that, incl stories of guys making them out of steel auto springs. I connected this week with a bottle collector who is going to sell me one.
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canhawk wrote: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:27 am
Leon wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:21 pm Canhawk, you can't just run to hardware store & buy a thin steel rod & make your own. Well, you can, I did 7 years ago but it's not the same as a real probe, which uses a special spring steel, which means it bends but bends back straight again. unlike a regular steel rod that bends & stays bent, unless you physically unbend it yourself. big difference. And some are more springy then others. LEON.
Leon, I have heard that, incl stories of guys making them out of steel auto springs. I connected this week with a bottle collector who is going to sell me one.

The steel auto springs your referring to is actually trunk lid hinges springs. These can be hard to find in the right diameter & length. If you get one do you have a spot planned to use it? LEON.
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The probe arrived Friday. I got a 3-footer, to probe for subsurface bottles and cans in and around dumps, and in drained lake beds (of course) When we were detecting cans at Lake Delhi, Steve and I wondered if a short probe would help us pinpoint cans so we didn't shovel-foul them. In one case we fetched a stick to use on a particularly deep can I had detected.
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