SHOVE IT .. an ENDOSCOPE Camera ..

 OK - that is what this thing has printed on the carton - 'ENDOSCOPE CAMERA' - but I'd call it a "Flexible Borescope" as it isn't intended to be used for medical examination. (not by me anyway)

- Don't ask me WHY did I buy this from USA - when it was made in China and - I could have bought it from AliExpress for one tenth of the price - sighs .. When will I learn to check my impetuosity?

There It Is:

If you've not read my stuff before - the antique 'Ottoman' flintlock in that pic was received loaded with ball and powder underneath a blockage that might have been chewed wood from some nesting insect .. 

This what I got after buying that drill bit and collecting the detritus .. I drilled all the way through the soft lead ball - reducing it to swarf.

- And after 100-150 years perhaps .. the damp powder charge still went POOF when ignited.

- You gotta be careful eh.

So I have managed to install this magic wand-scopey-thing onto my phone-camera and I now spend my wakeful hours trying to find uses for it, to justify wasting spending my pension dollars on it.

NO - It is not available for do-it-yourself COLONOSCOPY ..

On The Way in .. This 5/8" caliber Ottoman Flintlock needs the 

Oil of Wintergreen Rust Treatment eh.

Rust is INSIDIOUS stuff .. nasty.

At The Bottom:

That is one ugly looking Breech Plug - Don't members of the LGBTQI A+ community use breech plugs?

Either way - there seems to be an inwards BULGE down there that isn't visible from the exterior so I now have another task - to dissassemble and investigate the citee-ayshun. 

It looks like it may have had one hell of a whack .. (or not?). Surely if it's an inwards bulge that would be OK?- or is that a "thickening" at the vent?

Either way I'm having fun playing with these things and learning ..

I tell you what .. in the last several years I have lost my only sister and her good husband Fred - and FIVE of my best long time mates .. I only hope that they were having as much fun as me in their life and that there might be better things now that they have passed.

Are You a Fit and Proper Person?

Are NZ Police 'FIT AND PROPER'?

nah

FIREARMS LICENCES FOR NZ POLICE.

Marty K.