Smartphone borescope - GIF

Smartphone borescope.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...346#post177277
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...981#post202856
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...973#post198836

Be ready for Instagram and Tic-Tok videos of self-administered Colonoscopies. Or idiots feeding the cameras down their throats so they can find the things they swallowed.

I have two of these. One is wired only, the other can use Bluetooth. I don't use them often, but they are indispensable when I do. Looking into engine cylinders, intake and exhaust in situ is really cool. I have an older iphone that I use for this so I don't risk my good one.
Maybe I'm just not cool enough, but I've never considered cramming one into any body cavity.

Neil

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Originally Posted by sossol

I have two of these. One is wired only, the other can use Bluetooth. I don't use them often, but they are indispensable when I do. Looking into engine cylinders, intake and exhaust in situ is really cool.

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Bingo. Same here. I have two wired ones. One is wired with its own screen, and the other is wired but you use your cell phone (or laptop) as the screen. Just a USB webcam, essentially. Drop bolts into the engine bay somewhere? Grab the borescope and a magnet. Wondering if you have scratched cylinder liners? Grab the borescope. Need to look behind the drywall? Borescope. Have a resident beaver and want to spy on him in his lodge? I have a tool for that.

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Originally Posted by nova_robotics

Bingo. Same here. I have two wired ones. One is wired with its own screen, and the other is wired but you use your cell phone (or laptop) as the screen. Just a USB webcam, essentially. Drop bolts into the engine bay somewhere? Grab the borescope and a magnet. Wondering if you have scratched cylinder liners? Grab the borescope. Need to look behind the drywall? Borescope. Have a resident beaver and want to spy on him in his lodge? I have a tool for that.

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Agreed I bought one off of a Snap-on truck many years ago. self-screened. One of the handiest tools I had when diagnosing. mechanical issues but its short lead made limited its usefulness not sure what ever happened to it probably wound up in Guatemala with a truck load of my other tools and equipment when my shop was broken into. During my days of thinking I needed have my shop in a city.

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Originally Posted by Frank S

not sure what ever happened to it probably wound up in Guatemala with a truck load of my other tools

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Have a look on that jungle website. You can get a pretty decent one for the cost of lunch.

My kids gave me a bore scope for fathers day, it is a very handy tool.