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kkinney
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 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:07 am Post subject: Homegrown Boroscope |
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Both my fuel senders froze and I needed to free them. In my original plans, the senders were attached to the top of the tank. There was a drain hole I could poke a wire in, but to see what I was doing, I'd have to be able to look in through the fill tube 4 feet away on the other side of the wing.
After trying to borrow a boroscope, I was seriously thought about renting or buying one. As I explained to my wife what it was, I used the phrase "camera on a stick." But since it's a major purchase, I held off a couple days.
In that time I realized instead of a boroscope, I could use a CAMERA on a STICK. I already had a cheapo HaborFreight camera with limited night vision capabilities - http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=98813
It fit in the filler neck and I poked it down far enough to see the float. Then with the monitor on the other side of the wing, I was able feed my fish tape into the drain hole and jiggle the float. Viola!
Months of fretting solved by 30 seconds of work.
I'm not sure is good enough to be included on http://www.ch601.org/tools.htm
What does everyone think?
Regards,
Kevin Kinney
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:19 am Post subject: Homegrown Boroscope |
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Hi Kevin,
Great idea!
I've been thinking of doing a similar thing with a web-cam attached
to a laptop computer. Alas, I haven't found an application for this trick yet.
Looking at your Harbor Freight camera it seems it wants to connect to
a TV monitor. I'm sure this works, but then you have to figure out
what to do with the monitor when it is not working on this task.
Keep up the good work.
Paul
XL nearly done
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At 06:07 AM 8/20/2008, you wrote:
| Quote: | Both my fuel senders froze and I needed to free them. In my
original plans, the senders were attached to the top of the
tank. There was a drain hole I could poke a wire in, but to see
what I was doing, I'd have to be able to look in through the fill
tube 4 feet away on the other side of the wing.
After trying to borrow a boroscope, I was seriously thought about
renting or buying one. As I explained to my wife what it was, I
used the phrase "camera on a stick." But since it's a major
purchase, I held off a couple days.
In that time I realized instead of a boroscope, I could use a CAMERA
on a STICK. I already had a cheapo HaborFreight camera with limited
night vision capabilities -
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=98813
It fit in the filler neck and I poked it down far enough to see the
float. Then with the monitor on the other side of the wing, I was
able feed my fish tape into the drain hole and jiggle the float. Viola!
Months of fretting solved by 30 seconds of work.
I'm not sure is good enough to be included on http://www.ch601.org/tools.htm
What does everyone think?
Regards,
Kevin Kinney
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Gig Giacona
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chris Sinfield
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: Homegrown Boroscope |
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easy, whats that 18 year old boy doing downstairs with my 17 year old daughter and the lights are dim. Oh sorry did I leave the camera on? silly me..
Chris
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