borescope Articles
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SRV-J-4-1500 Joystick Videoscope
USA Borescopes is announcing the release of the new Surveyor HD Videoscope. The SRV-J-4-1500 borescope allow maintenance professionals to perform required FAA engine inspections without have the costly time investment of breaking an engine down. The slim 3.9mm diameter borescope easily fits into the Pratt & Whitney and Turbomeca (Safran Helicopter Engines) borescope guide tubes. ...
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NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference
Although the NBAA SDC2023 is not an event that we would normally attend, we just couldn’t resist the opportunity to see our customers while visiting the ‘Guitar’ AKA Nashville TN. We are located just 45 miles northwest of Nashville so this event is right around the corner for us. If you are attending the SDC2023 even or in the Nashville area we invite you to stop by and see the ...
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What makes rigid borescopes better than fiberscopes
Specialists who are interested in rigid borescopes want to know their pros and cons. A rigid borescope is an optical instrument with a metal insertion probe and eyepiece on one end and an objective lens on the other. There is a complex relay optical system between them. There are three types of optical systems: Hopkins rod lenses, achromatic doublets and gradient rod lenses. For large diameter ...
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Automotive Engine Inspection
Headquartered in Michigan, the heart of the US automotive industry, we are proud to offer a video borescope that helps ensure the quality, safety and reliability of cars and trucks. Our scopes are in use at every major auto manufacturer and dozens of tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers, saving time and money in QC, production and process machine maintenance. While automotive industry applications for ...
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.35mm Ultra Thin HQ Borescope now available on demand
We will now be carrying an Ultra Thin HQ Borescope that will measure only 0.35mm in diameter. As our thinnest diameter fiberscope yet, this fiberscope will allow places with even smaller access points to be visually inspected. This .35mm borescope features the same German made high resolution Quartz Fibre optic bundle used in our other Ultra Thin HQ Borescopes. This HQ fiberscope also comes with ...
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Our Rigel Videoscope was used on Graveyard Carz!
Video Borescopes have long be used to inspect inside engines, gas tanks and other hard to visualize places on auto mobiles. Borescopes can be used to look into any cavity that has a large enough access point to insert the probe. So there really is not limit to the ways videoscopes can be used by mechanics or anyone working on vehicles. We recently had our Rigel Videoscope featured on an episode ...
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Non Conductive Probes for Hazardous Inspections
Video Borescopes can be very useful for inspecting many hard to reach areas, but some places that it would be handy to use a borescope to inspect such as in fuel tanks, or in walls or spaces with live wires present, you don’t want a electrical charge or spark from the borescope interacting with the environment and causing a problem. Military and law enforcement applications such as ...
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What is the Best Aviation Borescope?
Simply put the best aviation borescope is the one that will perform all the task that you require as well as fit into your budget. Regardless, if you are a small operation or if you are working at a large repair station which supports various vessels, everyone wants the best borescope that they can get their hands on. Unfortunately, budget restraints may not let that happen. Let’s be ...
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USAVS 2-4-1500 Portable Videoscope
How can you tell which of these tools are right for your application? Much of the borescopes are going to be specifically sold for whatever industry they were made for. For example, the aviation/aerospace scope has the attachments and components necessary to complete the inspections of aircraft engines. The features frequently used for the inspection of long and narrow pipes will be included in ...
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USA Borescopes Releases the New EV Series Portable Videoscope
USA Borescopes is introducing Economy Series HD Borescopes to its line of helicopter and fixed wing tooling products. USA Borescopes is now offering its customers HD aviation Articulating Borescopes and Non-Articulating borescopes for all types of aviation maintenance and inspection. USA Borescopes will allow its customers to lower their direct operating costs for expensive turbine engines by ...
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Aircraft Maintenance: Benefits of Using a Borescope
Aircraft maintenance is crucial for ensuring the safety and efficiency of flights. A critical tool for aircraft maintenance is a borescope, a device used to inspect the inside of aircraft engines and other hard-to-reach areas. This blog will discuss the benefits of using a borescope for aircraft maintenance. ...
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Borescopes needed for turbine maintenance
Maintenance is essential in our lives. But especially important is maintenance in order to keep valuable turbines up and running. Note the comments below by Paul Boughton of EngineerLive.com: Inspections of the hot, turbine section are essential and close examination of the individual turbine blades can reveal issues with overheating. Initial inspections by an experienced service engineer using ...
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How to choose an automotive borescope?
There are many applications where borescopes are important and even critical. Borescopes are used every day by automotive technicians to inspect automotive components. The most important components such as fuel nozzles, hydraulic components and systems, welded tubing, engine cylinders, valve seats are all inspected using borescopes. This system allows the mechanic to inspect defects inside the ...
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Corrosion Inspection
Everything made of metal is susceptible to corrosion and can effect every non-service industry to one degree or another by the direct or indirect costs of corrosion prevention, mitigation or repair. The VJ-Advance (VJ-ADV) video borescope was used to take images above. The VJ-ADV is the ideal choice for any technician involved in corrosion control. No other borescope offers this level of ...
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Our RIGEL Video Borescope used for Field Research by Oklahoma State University
Dr. Stanley Fox, and Enrique Santoyo-Brito from Oklahoma State University contacted us looking for a video borescope to aid them in their research regarding care of young leopard lizards by adult leopard lizards in deep rock crevices in Chile. Our sales team determined the Rigel 2-way Articulating Video Borescopewould be the best fit for their research, as they wanted to be able to visualize ...
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Aircraft Engine Remote Visual Inspection
An aircraft MRO center was in need of an easy to use borescope for use in a wide variety of applications on both turbine and piston powered aircraft. The VJ-Advance (VJ-ADV) from RF System Lab was selected because of its unique combination of features and very competitive price. Using the VJ-ADV, technicians are now able to conduct engine and airframe inspections quickly and easily, documenting ...
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Factory Conveyor Inspection
A plywood manufacturer needed to inspect the roller bearings for its main conveyor motors. This inspection required a shutdown of the entire production line, and every minute of downtime would cost money. Additionally, because the motors were located in hard to reach areas, some several meters high, a portable and lightweight instrument would be needed. The VJ-ADV video borescope from RF System ...
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Borescope Magnification
What magnification does the borescope offer? That sounds like a simple question doesn’t it? But it is more complicated than it sounds. Both microscopes and eye loupes usually have a very restrictive DOP (Depth of Field). They can only focus images at a certain distances and therefore, their magnification is very limited. A borescope, on the other hand, has an extensive DOF (Depth of ...
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So, You have a Borescope
Borescopes are a necessary piece of equipment for your Quality or Inspection processes. A borescope provides you with the ability to examine those hard to see places within your specific application. A borescope will assist in identifying cracks, rust, debris, signs of overheating, and other nonconformities. Of course, the borescope is considered non-destructive test equipment as you do not have ...
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Exploring the Reasons for Price Differences Between Similar Looking Video Scopes
When looking for a Video Borescope the biggest factor to take into account is the job that needs to be done, and then the budget you have to work with. The price of a unit does not necessarily determine the quality of a product, but is a good thing to keep in mind when comparing scopes. High end scopes are going to be more expensive than economy scopes, the main reason for this is that higher end ...
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