Borescope Care and Maintenance: A Practical Guide for Reliable Inspections
By Paul Fitzgerald
Protect your borescope with simple maintenance habits that improve inspection reliability, extend equipment life, and help prevent costly repairs.
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By Paul Fitzgerald
Protect your borescope with simple maintenance habits that improve inspection reliability, extend equipment life, and help prevent costly repairs.
By Paul Fitzgerald
Today, video borescopes can use a variety of recording media to capture your inspection. Occassionally, there is difficulty viewing the video you download from your video borescope. Your media player...
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The field of view of a borescope, videoscope, fiberscope or pipe camera is the cone of vision that extends from the objective tip. Typically, the wider the field of view...
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A borescope, fiberscope, videoscope or pipe inspection camera can view or point in different directions in relation to the distal tip of the scope or probe. The direction can vary...
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By Paul Fitzgerald
New drain cameras now offer smaller camera heads to allow easy inspection of drain lines as small as 1/2 inch. Technology has made it possible to manufacture smaller diameter CCD cameras...
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A borescope, videoscope or fiberscope can typically handle temperatures of up to 176° F (80° C). Do not exceed 176 F This temperature limit applies to the flexible insertion tube. Once...
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Video borescopes come in many forms and are called many names: Videoscope, VideoProbe, Videoimage Scope etc. By what ever name you call them, video borescopes are an essential part of...
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It may sound like a simple concept but over the years I have witnessed multiple fiberscopes and borescopes that have been returned for completely avoidable fiberscope repairs. Operators need to understand that...
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