Video Borescope

I bought one years ago from a medical equipment manufacturer in Florida. It was designed to determine the sex of parrots. The probe is 3mm in diameter and 10 inches long. It also came with a video camera you attach to the probe. I paid $2500 at the SEMA show in Las Vegas and got a great deal. I find your prices hard to believe. By the way, you need an internal 90 degree mirror. There will not be enough room to bend a flexible probe to be totally useful. Steve

So how much is the voscope? I didn't see a price on their website. Harbor Freight now has a video borescope, 8 mm (.315") diameter, 48" long, with 0 and 90 degree tips, for $300.

-- Regards, Carl Ijames carl dott ijames aat verizon dott net (remove nospm or make the obvious changes before replying)

More than likely 320x240, or QVGA as it's called. These screens are all over the place in media players. They can actually look pretty good, especially in a 2 to 3 inch size.

If you can live with a slightly bigger hole, you can dig around get a media player (try the JXD661) with video input and a small camera for about $120 total; make you own mountings and scope away.

Several online stores have the VOscope for around 225-260 bucks. It comes with a mirror kit. It's not a fiberscope, but a small diam camera on a flex stalk, so resoulution seems limited by the CCD's pixtel count rather than the the number of fibers as would I guess be the case with a fiberscope. I think I'll have a look at the Harbor Freight unit to see how it works, but for now at $300, it's more than the VO scope, which is assembled in the USA. The HF seems to have a diameter advantage, 0.315" vs 0.40" for the VOscope.

Rigid makes one too... Grainger had it on display for $250.00 It had a bigger head and plans are on the deck for one to pass through a plug hole with a mirror that goes in and articulates independent of the scope arm. Very cool. I'm going to buy one as soon as they come out. The medical grade ones are way out of my price range.

Rob