picked up a medical borescope at a auction for $1, had to jury rig a light scource for the fiber optic cable but the result is awesome. no more wondering if a barrel clean or fouled, smooth/rough, cylinder alignment on revolvers, cylinder in auto engine, allways learning something new.
I've always wanted to get one of these.
Looking for one that can be used from 6.5 and up.
5.5 would be good to, but I'm not sure how clear the picture would be.
Searched ebay, but I really didn't find anything.
Gotta be cheap. I'm poor.
Suggestions????
Any of the cheap ones will look forward and work ok but you have to make a mirror to go into the bore in front of it and bend the view to look sideways - not tough to do if you can work metal at all, just steel rod right diameter and saw it at 45 degrees and sand/polish the cut end.
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other options for right angle http://www.amazon.com/Supereyes-Bore...0KZM4W6VGRD3VS Supereyes Borescope Side View Mirror Set 30 45 60 degrees for Supereyes Borescope N005 N013J
Don't know what diameter they are.
The supereyes Borescopes are 7mm (.284) and that goes over the end of it making it larger still.
je suis charlie
It is better to live one day as a LION than a dozen days as a Sheep.
Thomas Jefferson Quotations:
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Lyman has one in the works. They say June 2015, but who knows?
http://www.lymanproducts.com/lyman/G.../borescope.php
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More "This is what happened when I,,,,," and less "What would happen if I,,,,"
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I'm in the process of writing an article on two different, el-chepo, bore cameras I bought and tested. Until the article is released there are tons of pictures and videos here:
http://public.fotki.com/Rbertalotto/.../bore-scope-1/
Great info. Thanks for doing it.
As you can see in my post above. I've done extensive research on these little bore scopes. ALL of them are really not suitable for what we want to do. They simply do not have the proper focal length for the tight areas we want to look at. I had a Hawkeye that was simply fantastic and you could see the smallest scratch in a bore. But the Hawkeye was a Direct View device. You were actually looking directly through the fiber with your eye.......not a crappy , low resolution, 30 frame per second , video image. And the cost was 20 times what these Ebay cameras cost.
The best way to use them is with a bore fitting slug with a piece of white paper on the end. A thin piece of copper wire to push the "slug" along before the camera lens. The light reflects off the slug and creates the proper illumination some distance from the lense at the proper focal length. If you simply tape the copper wire to the camera end, you can slide it in and out for the appropriate focal length.
One of the cameras I bought came with a 45 degree mirror that was useless as it needed the subject to be about 2 inches away from the mirror. Might work OK in a 10ga Shotgun or a cannon!
I'm going to order a Lyman camera at some point and will report back.......
Be Safe!
Videos and still pictures here:
http://public.fotki.com/Rbertalotto/.../bore-scope-1/
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