Re: [ihc] Special Tools, was: Re: Starter help 74/75 4wd TA

["Allan Ericson" <lowvolt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hofstetter" <hofs@domain.elided>
>
> I bent over and asked him to save me some money, but he said he was too
> busy. You need one of those, Joel. You could inspect inside cylinders just
> by taking the plug out. Wow!
>
> John
>

John-

If you need a camera of that type, I can get you one wholesale. They aren't
that much. I'm going to the security systems trade show in Las Vegas at the
end of March/first of April (and the systems contractor show in mid-March),
so whoever has the latest and greatest will be there with catalogs.

At the moment, camera size is determined primarily by lens size. The
invention of the CCD chip, which later became the basis for the digital
camera, has been the ultimate  technology advancement in the camera industry
in the last decade, and still continues to improve. I expect the advances to
continue in the same manner as the microprocessor. We have entered into a
time where you can be easily observed by anybody, anywhere, and cheaply.
Lest anybody object, the genie is out of the bottle, is not going back in,
and I don't like it either. Like social diseases, those who get the most
attention run the most risk.

I have been meaning to get a camera of this type for use in examining nooks
and crannies. Checking to see where a hole is located inside a wall so that
a wire can be fished, checking cylinder wall condition, and even checking
the inside of a gas tank or radiator, inside of a differential without
popping the cover, and some other places that can't be easily reached are
just the tip of the iceberg.

When environmental housings are not needed, and the areas to be viewed are
just "room" sized, within about 25 feet, the typical camera I install is
less than 3" long and less than an inch wide, and can be used underwater or
in temperatures below 0 degrees F, in light levels as low as 0.02 lux.
That's just the standard stuff. The good stuff is right out of spy movies,
and still less expensive than the basic cameras were 20 years ago. Even 10
years ago, the manufacturers had to filter out the infra-red to get the
visible spectrum to show clearly (or go the other way and charge more for
the same thing).

I hope you were talking about bending over backward to do him a favor, not
forward...