[wbill]

Only cheap, costume jewelry sets of the magnetometer

Gold and silver are not ferrous. They can't set off a magnetometer. Ergo, wedding bands and most good jewelery shouldn't set it off.

[absolootezer0]

Gold and silver are not ferrous. They can't set off a magnetometer. Ergo, wedding bands and most good jewelery shouldn't set it off.

what about some of the other new fads in metals for jewelery? i recently bought my wedding ring, and while looking, my jeweler showed me some of their new stuff. rings made out of titanium, some with tungsten, one was gold and stainless steel, and various other metals.

[-YYZ-]

"Gold and silver are not ferrous. They can't set off a magnetometer. Ergo, wedding bands and most good jewelery shouldn't set it off."

Is that true, only ferrous metals set off the metal detectors? I sort of figured that was the case when I noticed that one house key in my pocket would set it off, whereas my 1/4 lb watch (mostly base metals) and largish belt buckle (brass), and also my eyeglasses (titanium) fail to make it go off. Like others here I've taken to unloading all metal objects into a pocket in my jacket and sending it through the scanner, so that I don't set off the detector and, thus, don't get wanded.