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I got a new "Video Inspection scope" from my Snap-On dealer this week. I was gonna post a link to a site about it, butI can't find one. It just came out, so must be it's not in the book yet.
This thing rocks! It's a box about the size of a steno pad with an LCD screen in the middle. Attached to it is about 2 feet of posable line with the "borescope" on the end. with an adjustable intensity light. It feeds a live picture to the screen, and has a video out jack. it also came with the 90deg mirror, and a small magnet attachment.
It fits through most spark plug holes, and down ac ducts, and over gas tanks, and down in little cracks, and behind waterpump pullies, and........you get the idea.
It weren't cheap, but it'll be worth every cent.
cool!!!
Beats the old borescopes I've used. Hands down.
 
I am SOOOOoooo jealous!!! :sick:
 
National Safety Products has a nice one for 300 bucks. 3 foot probe. It just doesn't have "Snap-On" printed on it, but works the same and it's made in the U.S.A.
 
Yup, roughly the same, but the snap-on scopes body is a larger, square. and there is adjustments for the intensity of the light, and it came with a "video out" cable, I only wish that the video out was a USB. Right now I'd have to get a card for my laptop to convert the signal, then I could take digital borescope shots and post them!!!(or email them to a tec assistance site, or print them out and show the customer
 
N.S.P. has one with TV and USB connections also. But, $1375.00 is a little much for a tinkerers shop.
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Wowzers! that's pricey! I'll spill it. mine was around $500. I'll be paying it off for quite a while.
I normally don't buy fancy stuff like that, but once in a while I find something that I can think of dozens of times when I needed just that thing, so I splurge and get it.
Being that cautious, I've not regretted any of my "splurges" yet. and most of them have paid for themselves in short order.
 
Considering its usefulness, you should have a fee for it every time it comes out of the case. "Internal Visual Inspection" or suchlike.
 
funny, my proctologist said the same thing :jester:
 
I do. It's what's called "diagnostics" Doc. it also applies to the use of the rediculously overpriced scantools, labscopes and computer based data systems that good shops have to buy and keep updated. not to mention all the classes and certifications required of tecs to keep current.
 
YUP! The cost of doing business keeps on draining us shop-owners' pocket books! I own a Snap-On Modis and an OTC Genysis. The doggone things are very expesive when you add accessories and perform up-dates! On top of that, I use Mitchell 1 Shop Manager linked to Quickbooks....Then there are the 2 5GA's I own, and so much other stuff! It is a factor in high cost to consumers who have me fix their cars. What I find irksome is to drive past a competitor's shop where their marquis sign declares "Free Diagnostic Scan!" because that undermines the integral price structure of car repair as germane to these newer computerized cars where we have to dive into mode 6 diags and refer to a library to elucidate hex language into english... hoo boy!
 
Man, you need to have a word with your snap on guy. I got mine for 325.00 At 500.00 I might have balked, but 325.00 seemed reasonable. I hear there is an update to extend the battery life. I havealready used up a couple of sets, but I also got a request for a loan to a nearby shop. Its a great tool.
 
Maybe you should do like the Clinics and charge seperate for lab work.
 
The whole thing is designed to put independent shops out of business. Snappy and OBD spec's/standards have somewhat ameliorated that.

I'll continue to own and maintain my pre-processor vehicles until they're ~legislated~ out of existence (or gasoline is unavailable).

What the rest of the "motoring public" choose to do will be driven by whatever the manufacturers decide they'll offer. As long as an i-pod, GPS or Sirius are the decision factors, "cars" ain't cars IMHO. But I'm no soccer mom. I just need to go from point A to point B. I should not be coerced to pay Sherman or Goodwrench or any other "specialist" for the privelege of that movement. I'll be responsible for myself, thankewverrymuch. If th' plumbing leaks, I am th' one wot has th' duty to FIX it.


AOL and th' innernet are examples of th' SAME paradigm... but unfortunately we're a society of lemmings. Conditioned. Culturated.


...and doomed.
 
DrEntropy said:
AOL and th' innernet are examples of th' SAME paradigm... but unfortunately we're a society of lemmings. Conditioned. Culturated.


...and doomed.
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Well, aren't WE Miss Sunshine today! :jester:

<span style="font-size: 8pt"> However, I'm in the same school! </span>
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Well, aren't WE Miss Sunshine today! :jester:

<span style="font-size: 8pt"> However, I'm in the same school! </span>
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Hey, according to local media reports as recent as yesterday I'm about to be blown from here to somewhere in north Georgia... I'm entitled to be a bit morose. :smirk:
 
DrEntropy said:
Mickey Richaud said:
Well, aren't WE Miss Sunshine today! :jester:

<span style="font-size: 8pt"> However, I'm in the same school! </span>
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Hey, according to local media reports as recent as yesterday I'm about to be blown from here to somewhere in north Georgia... I'm entitled to be a bit morose. :smirk:
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This is when the British that comes with our cars is particularly helpful: "tut, tut, a tad bracing for open top motoring wot?" :laugh: good luck!
 
Modern cars are insane. I have spent THOUSANDS on digital equipment to try to keep. Not to mention paying for a "data base" just to get the info I need to see if I can fix it in the first place. Lately I have just been paying for a days access at a time to the manufacturers sites. I charge a "technology charge" for that. The worst thing tho is parts that need a manufacturers specific scan tool to be "coded" to a specific car to even work in the first place. What a benefit to the customer!!! I am with Doc here,currently my daily driver is an 87, and when the corvair is done it will be a 67. I love simple cars than can be fixed on the side of the road if necessary. Rolling computer systems have no fascination for me at all.
 
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My urologist has one of them dumaflatchies. I have an appointment with him Friday morning to look inside my bladder, from the business end of my thingy. Not exactly looking forward to that procedure. This will make the 16th time. (Had bladder cancer twice)
 
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