A most useful tool..

[chris-s]

I’m not sure I’ve seen this mentioned often if at all, but one really useful tool/gadget is this…



… a ten meter wifi endoscope that works with an app on your phone or tablet to just view or capture images or video of what you couldn’t otherwise see.

I’ve hauled it up inside masts, shoved it round the back of cabinetry, down cable runs, up outboard motor legs, down dipstick tubes and just yesterday after descaling my VP2003 using its ‘right-angled adapter, thru the bypass tube to check the exit holes along its length (there isn’t enough space behind the engine to remove it without taking cabinetry apart).



Of course, it also has a myriad of other less nautical uses like looking for rats nests in crawl spaces

You have missed Mother’s Day, but you still have time to start dropping hints for Father’s Day.

Chris

 

[Daydream believer]

I suppose this now gives an opening for forumites to make suggestions where else to stick it.

 

[ash2020]

I've used mine in lots of circumstances. It's pretty good for checking the wax in your ears!

 

[chris-s]

I suppose this now gives an opening for forumites to make suggestions where else to stick it.

I was hoping we were more civilised than that! Perhaps we should move this thread to the lounge before it’s too late.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

It doesn't seem well focused.

 

[dunedin]

I suppose this now gives an opening for forumites to make suggestions where else to stick it.

I stuck mine in the end of the boom, under the deck organisers, and even waggled it close to the folding prop when it was turning. I like living dangerously. I am also boasting that mine is 10m long.

 

[Daydream believer]

I've used mine in lots of circumstances. It's pretty good for checking the wax in your ears!

I know a couple of sailors who could put it in one ear & look at people on the other side of the room?

 

[chris-s]

It doesn't seem well focused.

Don’t forget it was inside a 15mm tube looking sideways at a hole in the side of said tube.

 

[Refueler]

It doesn't seem well focused.

They're not ! The LED lights are the problem ... they cause the image to blur due to the amount of light.

Had one for few years now ... and other thing is they need a late version of IOS / Android and OTG ....

BUT it is useful to search out blockages or to see into awkward spots.

 

[Daydream believer]

I had to have one of those inserted up the rear end to remove a rather large growth some years ago. Then for several years I had to go for annual checkups. One time I was laying on my side on the theatre table whilst 2 very pretty nurses were setting up the screen & probe. The surgeon had his back to them & did not see what they were doing. Due to the pain I had endured when they cut the piece out before, they decided to put me right out. So they were waiting for me to go under.
As I was going drowsy one nurse had the probe & one was tuning the screen where I could see it. As the probe was moved around, I could see the room. Suddenly the nurse slipped the probe up the skirt of her colleague. When I had the original opp my heart stopped beating & they had a panic to re start it. I cannot help thinking that if it had happened again & I had died, at least I had died with a picture of---- well I will leave it to your imagination. But these cameras really do have good image intensity.
Last thing I heard was the surgeon saying "Oiy, stop that if I see you doing that again you are both out of my theatre for good"
But I did not mind

 

[Bouba]

I had to have one of those inserted up the rear end to remove a rather large growth some years ago. Then for several years I had to go for annual checkups. One time I was laying on my side on the theatre table whilst 2 very pretty nurses were setting up the screen & probe. The surgeon had his back to them & did not see what they were doing. Due to the pain I had endured when they cut the piece out before, they decided to put me right out. So they were waiting for me to go under.
As I was going drowsy one nurse had the probe & one was tuning the screen where I could see it. As the probe was moved around, I could see the room. Suddenly the nurse slipped the probe up the skirt of her colleague. When I had the original opp my heart stopped beating & they had a panic to re start it. I cannot help thinking that if it had happened again & I had died, at least I had died with a picture of---- well I will leave it to your imagination. But these cameras really do have good image intensity.
Last thing I heard was the surgeon saying "Oiy, stop that if I see you doing that again you are both out of my theatre for good"
But I did not mind

Are you saying that a nurse put it up another nurse’s skirt after it had been up your jaxie ?

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Are you saying that a nurse put it up another nurse’s skirt after it had been up your jaxie ?

Or was the nurse sans culottes

 

[William_H]

I got one hoping to see what the halyards were doing inside my mast. A total failure for me. A very detailed picture close up but i could not sort out what I was looking at. Gave it to son who successfully used it to look inside structure of his guitar. ol'will

 

[colind3782]

I use mine once in a while to check on my shaft anodes. You have just reminded me that it's nesting season here so time to use it to check inside the boom!

 

[Snowgoose-1]

They're not ! The LED lights are the problem ... they cause the image to blur due to the amount of light.

Had one for few years now ... and other thing is they need a late version of IOS / Android and OTG ....

BUT it is useful to search out blockages or to see into awkward spots.

Agree. I've tried two but both kept crashing. My tablet was too low powered or android version too old. Wonder if you can buy a used one from the hospital .

 

[Leighb]

Agree. I've tried two but both kept crashing. My tablet was too low powered or android version too old. Wonder if you can buy a used one from the hospital .

I doubt if the hospital ones are likely to be long enough for boating uses? I was surprised about the voyeuristic nurse, all the nurses I have ever seen in theatre wore scrubs, not skirts?

 

[Wansworth]

Bought one to check on the beast seemingly squatting in our roof,couldn’t see nowt

 

[Bouba]

I doubt if the hospital ones are likely to be long enough for boating uses? I was surprised about the voyeuristic nurse, all the nurses I have ever seen in theatre wore scrubs, not skirts?

Perhaps he was watching Carry On Nurse, before his general anesthetic

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Perhaps he was watching Carry On Nurse, before his general anesthetic

That would explain the daffodil

 

[Wansworth]

Had one recently shoved up the old John Thomas…..very welllit interior of my urinal tract