buccicone

Looking into getting a high quality boresope. What are suggestions? Don't need WiFi enabled to smart phone necessarily. Thanks.......

daveo90s4

What did ya drop? 😀😀

buccicone

A bunch of things. Wanted to use for different inspections. Brake pad inspection, valley mouse nests and treasures.

FredR

Mike,

I ordered an endoscope for my Android phone- would not work with my previous phone but works nicely with my latest phone albeit I needed an adapter for by now outmoded connector. Very cheap but surprisingly good value for $20. Given your intended use you cannot go wrong I suspect. Below is a link to their latest offering which somehow features WiFi. The thing also had a good insertion length and we used it recently to inspect inside my friends BMW inlet manifold, runners and cylinders. I was surprised at just how good it was. No idea what your expectation is but value for money what more can I say.

https://iendoscope.com/products/smar...ource=omnisend

SwayBar

You can a decent one at Harbor Freight for about $75.

Shark2626

I bought a smart phone compatible version on Amazon, perhaps $35 by Rotek IIRC, it connects its own wifi to the smart phone to transmit the image, and you can snap photos or video of what you are looking at. It works great and it paid for itself.

But! The trouble with these new styles is that they need to be very close to what you want to see, from a distance the visual is quite poor, both by their design I suppose and perhaps more so from the lack of sufficient light supplied in dark spaces (it has tiny lights around the tip, but it just not stong enough IMO). If I wanted to buy again I would find one that works much better from varying distances and that supplies a greater amount of light. It would likely cost more than $35 though I'm sure.

dr bob

In my collection, I have a genuine borescope inspection tool, the one that has you you look through the eyepiece. Has a 10M snake with some articulation available through cables in the housing. They ran in the $3k range when I bought it a couple decades ago. FredR would know this one from doing industrial inspections. It will reach all the way around to the other side of a G-size frame turbine and compressor for blade inspections. Has a camera attachment that lets you take evidence snapshots. I had an adapter made to allow use with the hi-tech and hi-res (1024x768) digtal camera I had at the time. This scope is still in use today, as resolution is only limited to that available with a mark-1 eyeball, with easy enhancement with a magnifying eyepiece.


Nowadays, we "see" with cameras, and suffer with the available resolution. 4K+ cameras are becoming common, but we look at images on maybe 6" phone screens. Great if you are trying to locate a dropped fastener. If you want to get through a spark plug hole for a cylinder wall inspection keep in mind that you have maybe 12mm of hole to pass through. Unless the camera end has articulation available, your hope of moving the camera and light for a look-around is limited by the diameter and depth of the plug hole, and where you want to look. You bend the tube as you pass it through, or try to bend it against the top of a piston as you insert it. In the 4-cam motors with deep plug wells in the cam covers, this can be a chore. So manage your expectations. Find one that supports a larger screen like a tablet, maybe one with resolution and zoom capability to match the screen you will be looking through. The last inspection camera I looked at casually has 8k, and a wifi portal so I can use my 4k tablet to view and record. Still no articulating head. The camera barrel is 15mm OD, meaning it won't go through a 928 spark plug hole anyway. Variable focal length (user adjustable from about 10mm to 500mm) is pretty cool. 5M probe length is too short for frame turbines but would be OK for some of the small aero units I don't look at. Would be fine for auto and home use though, like looking in walls and through piping. Or under the intake.

islaTurbine

I use the one recommended on Rennlist by Jake Raby with Flat Six Innovations. It’s cheap, available on Amazon, and hooks up via bluetooth.

dr bob

Linky or reference?

buccicone

I saw that when I was following Jake Raby's series on Bore Scoring for my 996. Yes a link, or otherwise have to go through all eight videos to find it. I will look and post.

islaTurbine

Apologies, had to jump on a flight and didn’t have time to search for the link. This should be it.

gazfish

Last week I had a colono... Never mind.

dr bob

So things are looking up!

worf928

My useful borescope is VGA and 13 years old.

The useless borescope is USB, 5 years old, and comes with a root-kit guaranteed to eat your laptop.

As a result, I am only interested in stand-alone units.

I suppose I could get a burner Andriod for use only with the borescope.

Yeah. That's what I need: one more operating system in my life...

Tony

Cologuard...is in the mail.


meanwhile...

i have a HF scope..and just ordered a 20 dollar something scope off amazon to see how it works. The HF has paid for itself around the house already.