Why do I think I need one of these???

[Merlin66]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mini-USB-Endoscope-Borescope-Snake-Inspection-Video-Camera-Zoom-2M-Cable-TE15/170993540834?_

This looks like it could be useful...but I don't know for what......

[omegacrux]

There handy for looking in engine's
Take a spark plug out , poke that in and you can check the bore for wear.

David

[Screwdriverone]

Home colonoscopies?

Save on theatre fees.....

Just a thought ;)

Chris

[The_bluester]

I have a big old clunker borescope, I should replace it with something modern and easy to move around like the ebay ones.

the old one is interesting technically but if it fails it will be a bin job. It has a mono camera and three lots of memory to scan an image off it. Threee screens worth of memory is the giveaway. It has a hulking great light source which shines through a fibre optic link to the camera on the end of the cable. The light source shines though a shutter and a colour wheel, so when using the light source you get a colour image from a mono camera! It flashes red/green/blue in sequence via the shutter wheel and filter wheel (Fast) and writes a red, green and blue image in the respective memory pages to then build a colour image from!

One thing that is really handy with the old clunker I have now, it has "Tendons" through the lead to a control know so you can steer the camera from side to side on the end, handy for looking around. And it is flexible enough that with a bit of patience I can feed it into a cylinder of an engine and get it to flip around to inspect the cylinder head from the inside!

You do wonder though about all the ebay ones, these things are Borescopes, I am not entirely sure that the sellers realise what an "Endoscope" actually is!

[Baddad]

I have used the earlier ones to locate dead possums in ceilings. Particularly ceiling cavities that are too small for a person to get into.

Drilling 10mm holes at various points to place the camera through. Once the carcass is located a large hole to remove the body. Then it was a medium job to repair the large hole and just plug the smaller ones.

The device saved so much time and minimized the ceiling repairs necessary.

Cheers:)

[louie_the_fly]

You need one just because, and they're currently available at a good price. Just tell the wife (assumption on my part that you do have one) that if she ever loses her diamond engagement ring down the sink you'll be able to locate it. ;)

They do come in handy though. For finding stuff. Or poking in holes and looking at stuff.

How tiny must that goldfish be?

[BlackWidow]

Have a look at that bead you stuffed up your nose when you were six. Great for finding those hairs that are growing out of your ears.

Put one down a funnel web spider hole. Very interesting to see a fang wielding spider looking back at you at close up...

Besides all the stupid and fun things, they are very handy. You will be using it for all sorts of things once you have one. Got one for checking my aircraft bores and have ended up using it for other things..

I think you should get one. It seems you are left out as all of us on this post have one, and you don't.. Yep like the ring idea... Keep the Wife happy.

[Ric]

EEEEK!! :eyepop: :scared2:

[OzStarGazer]

Well, I don't know why, but I added it to my Watch List. :)