ALDI Inspection Camera

[Twizseven]

ALDI's latest offerings this last weekend included a Workzone Inspection Camera.  Although I have another inspection camera I thought it was worth a look.  The camera head is 5.5mm diameter and that includes the six LED's.  My current camera head is 16.5mm dia so quite a difference.

It is a very good piece of kit, how they do it for £39.99 I do not know.  Image can be colour or B&W, can be mirrored or turned up side down, magnified 1.5 or 2 times digitally, 5 stage LED brightness, picture brightness, Video output port, long flexible shaft, waterproof to 1 metre, complete with magnetic attachment, hook attachment and mirror attachment.  Uses 4 AA batteries.  So impressed I went back and bought 2 more for colleagues.

If you need to see into/access difficult places its well worth it.

No connection with ALDI, just satisfied.

Colin

[matter8]

Thanks for the information. I also think this is a great deal. Regards

[kvom]

Don't see it here in the US yet, at least not locally to me.

[b.lindsey]

Are we talking about the same ALDI that sells groceries?

Bill

[Twizseven]

Bill,

That's correct.  They regularly have specials of work tools, such as orbital sanders, compressors, angle grinders etc., work clothing etc.  The majority of kit is very good.  I had an electric extendable chainsaw for lopping tree branches and it is excellent, also an electrical garden shredder which has had lots of use.  All the stuff has three year warranty.

Colin

[b.lindsey]

Thanks Colin, I do have an ALDI's in the area but have honestly never been to it. Maybe it's time I visited it.

Bill

[bent]

We have something like that here in the shop, connects via USB, takes video at a 7 fps rate or so.  If you search amazon for borescope cameras, I think you can still find them.  FWIW, they are waterproof, we put one inside a valve and did flow testing at 10-20 psig with the camera focused on an area of interest.  Worked ok, but our water was too murky to see what we wanted.  I also used it to check the bore of a .22 cal air rifle, worked well for that too.

Quick look, and yep, they are still offering them, although this one is a bit bigger (.33 inch?)

https://www.amazon.com/Depstech-Semi-rigid-Inspection-Waterproof-Adjustable/dp/B00STB0EW6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1506371756&sr=8-3&keywords=borescope+camera

[Streamer]

Hi Colin,
Just picked one of these up, seem to be very nice bit of kit especially the business end being less than 5.5mm.

Thanks for the heads up.

Steve

[Twizseven]

Steve,

Glad you found it useful.  It was the 5.5mm head which made it very useful.

Colin

[Tin Falcon]

In Australia the aldi's sell 3d printers.  There are two that my wife and I shop at . I have found 500g cross peen hammers there so yes worth a look.