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Dropped $400 on a borescope last year, and now I can't decide if it was the best or worst buy of my career
I picked up a cheap articulating borescope for $400 to check a turbine for FOD without pulling the whole engine, and it found a cracked blade that would've been a $30k surprise down the line. But I've also caught myself stalling on jobs because I can see every little nick and scratch now, and I wonder if that's making me slower or sharper. So I gotta ask, do you guys trust the cheap scopes or do you think anything under a grand is just a toy that'll make you see problems that aren't there?
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jessica8416h ago
The "now I can see every little nick and scratch" part is the real story here, and it's not just scopes. Same thing happened when I got a good flashlight, suddenly every corner of my garage looked like it needed fixing. Same with people who buy a moisture meter and start finding "problems" in every wall of the house. The tool didn't change the building, it changed what you can notice. A $400 scope showing you a cracked blade is real value because that crack was always there, you just couldn't see it before. The trap is when seeing more makes you think every flaw needs action, when most of them were fine for years and would've stayed fine. So the scope isn't making you slower, your judgment is just catching up to your eyes, and that part takes time.
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