Underground water pipe detector

[Alistair]

I understand now I didn't realise that CAT scanners use a generator only ever seen men at the side of the road with hand held ones

 

[Richard Devon]

If you attach the wire to a set of drain rods then poke 'em up the pipe. The CAT genny clips onto the wire, the earth stake is in the ground. Switch the genny on, activate your CAT scanner and you'll find the pipe run in seconds. Same for water pipe but high tensile wire is used instead of the drain rods.

How about wrap the wire from the genny to the pipe and will become the conductor?....should work?

 

[suffolksmallholder]

How about wrap the wire from the genny to the pipe and will become the conductor?....should work?

If your pipe is METAL it will work using the genny as it should be. There's a O shaped clip like a pair of scissors just for this that goes over METAL pipes. If this METAL pipe turns into PLASTIC anywhere along its length the search will fail but at this point but you will get an idea of the pipes direction unless it dramatically alters course where the PLASTIC starts!
If you NEED to find a PLASTIC pipe urgently, buy the correct sized Philmac fitting, switch the feed OFF & CUT the PLASTIC pipe at 45 degree angle (to aid raising it) and do the locating with all the bits I've mentioned, then use the Philmac fitting to repair the cut. Simples.
SS

 

[TripleSix]

I understand now I didn't realise that CAT scanners use a generator only ever seen men at the side of the road with hand held ones

It's a signal generator you hire with the CAT.

You can clip it's cable to a steel pipe or dead cables to help find them with a CAT.

or you can even just sit it above the pipe you want to trace.

 

[MickMoor]

Seems like Everytime I dig a hole I manage to find a drain or a water pipe.

Me too! Today, I knew I was close, so decided to dig by hand. Found the water pipe where I expected, assumed it ran parallel to the building to the trough in the field. Why did the person who put it in move it away frmo the building? So that I could put a pick through it?