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Does anyone know if optical scopes exist, and if so where you can find them? I know they are commonly used in macroscopic surgery, they even come with a finger like feature for guiding your way around. I don't see why such a device can't exist for folks that want to look down the throat of intake, spark plug hole, ect.

You mean something like this?

Jean

Yeah, just like that, but with out the stupid price tag.

I know the fiber optic it's self cost pennies per foot, I don't think the other parts really cost that much either. I'd say they are playing marketing games when it comes to their price tag. There has to be a more competitively priced product out there.

Thanks for the link.

I noticed this from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borescope

Now knowing that borescope is a fairly common term for this kind of device, I tried this

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q= ... a=N&tab=wf

Also fiberscope produced this

http://www.google.com/products?q=fibers ... en&show=dd

Looks like borescopes are commonly priced in the $150 to $200 range, and fiber scopes are commonly priced in the $200 to $250 range.