Ridgid SeeSnake Micro Inspection Camera
Generally, micro inspection cameras are frightfully expensive professional instruments for dedicated industrial applications with commensurately high professional fees attached. When I stumbled across the $182 Ridgid SeeSnake, I became so excited that I felt a wave of static electricity across my scalp and was momentarily light-headed before I regained my composure long enough to click Add to Shopping Cart.
Besides being able to see in hidden locations, there are hook and magnet wand attachments to grab objects discovered in these previously uncharted territories. Clearly, this is not a professional grade tool and is not a direct replacement for versions costing thousands of dollars. However, with the 3-foot wand it is more than adequate for looking in your own ears. Ladies and gentlemen, let's face facts, that alone is worth $182 and any ancillary purpose is gravy.
Rigid SeeSnake Micro Inspection Camera
Besides being able to see in hidden locations, there are hook and magnet wand attachments to grab objects discovered in these previously uncharted territories. Clearly, this is not a professional grade tool and is not a direct replacement for versions costing thousands of dollars. However, with the 3-foot wand it is more than adequate for looking in your own ears. Ladies and gentlemen, let's face facts, that alone is worth $182 and any ancillary purpose is gravy.
Rigid SeeSnake Micro Inspection Camera
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Oh geez, I have wanted one of these (that didn't cost kilobucks) for SO long. Bless you, Mr. J, for the heads-up.
thank you, I did not need to eat lunch this week, but I do need to buy me some ear-lookin
(and the ability to peer into the cylinder of a motorcycle through a spark plug hole? oh, hosannah! thank you)
I do a lot of industrial property inspections, and I drill a lot of holes in the ground. "Cable Reach: 3' (expandable to 30' with optional extensions)". This will be the best tool ever.
"However, with the 3' foot wand it is more than adequate for looking in your own ears."
Or your own navel, for that matter, I suppose.
Home colonoscopy a go!
I am trying so hard to justify buying one. Everyone here should list as many uses as they can think of to push me over the edge. An adjunct to my vehicle entry kit (to avoid setting off side curtain airbags) is my offering.
I love how the Amazon page has a 1-star review that complains the picture is upside down. This is responded to in a 5-star review that says, basically, "turn the snake".
Ha!
Typical Amazon.
This tool is great, I use it at work all the time. Be really careful with the head. Its cheap plastic and snaps off easy. I reinforced the second one, do that with your first.
Funny, I've already been occasionally seeing these for sale used on Craigslist, etc. I've been seriously thinking about getting one; seems like one of those tools that lends itself most often to uses you hadn't thought of when you bought it.
Ah, Ridgid. Helping rednecks misspell the word rigid for over 80 years...
@FreakCitySF:
Make sure you don't use the hook attachment! Though in certain cases I'm sure the magnet attachment could be very handy.
I once picked up an actual used medical endoscope on ebay for about 200 bucks. Just another way to get similar functionality.
But you should probably know that colonoscopes and sigmoidoscopes do not have to be sterilized after every use, so do wash off whatever you do buy.
I forsee a new porn genre.
#12: This item is NOT FOR USE by Japanese businessmen on the train.
The Milwaukee Electric version has double the resolution/pixel-count and runs longer on the same batteries (though the Ridgid is waterproof), for the same price:
http://www.milwaukeetool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_27_40028_-1_751156_197137_192137
Also available from Amazon. If you're in the 'States, that is...
I have one of these which I used to try to run some Ethernet (it worked fine, I just didn't have the access I was looking for).
Its pretty cool, I lent it to my neighbor, and I don't think I'm getting it back.
What's really funny is that I lent it to my plumber, who looked at it like Golum looks at the ring.
...Had this article showed up on Boing Boing before last week's ColOMoscopy, I'd have probably been a little freaked by this sort of technology being in the hands of someone not a licensed physician :-P :-P
...Had this article showed up on Boing Boing before last week's ColOMoscopy, I'd have probably been a little freaked by this sort of technology being in the hands of someone not a licensed physician :-P :-P
@#6
Okay, here's my go for Over-The-Edge Pushing
My work here is done.
Gosh, even for just plugging in something behind the TV/Fishtank/Refridgerator without having to move it this is worth it.
I suspect that if I owned this I would attempt more breach-clear scenarios a la Rainbow Six.
Imagine showing up to buy a used car, pulling the spark plugs and performing a live interior inspection of the cylinder walls. This would be particularly useful in vehicles that have not been started in years.
Drilling a pilot hole in a wall and getting a look before you engage in a course of irreversible demolition.
All specifics aside, I agree with the DarkBeanie as this tool would be most useful in applications that you have not imagined. A one minute peek to save an hour of fishing around.
Home endoscopy now affordable.
The camera head isn't small enough for about 90% of the applications you guys are coming up with. :-P
Man on Pink Corner is correct; it would be hell trying to get that thing past the ileocecal valve.
I'm sure it won't be long before someone figures out how to record the output of one of these things. I can't WAIT for all of the "guess where I've stuck my Ridgid SeeSnake" YouTube videos.
Re: uses you hadn't thought of when you bought it
SeesSnake and PUPPIES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5zCd331sUw
Hitting E.R. foreign object removal lists in 3,...2,...
This thing is a lifesaver. If it broke I would buy another one even if I found out they are made of ground-up puppies.