Make $$ with a pipe inspection camera - Sanyipace pipeline camera

Intro

This is Sean. I'm in the shop today and I wanted to show you this new inspection camera that I got from Sanyipace.

I know many of you have mentioned that I can really use an inspection camera for the type of work I do. And so I finally got one. I want to talk about this one really quickly here in the shop. And then I want to show you how some of the different things you can do with it and some of its applications.

Unboxing

So firstly, I like this one. Because it comes to its own case. This whole thing is one Mobile unit. You've got the cord reel down here, that's going to run out in your pipe. All the electronics are stored in this waterproof hard case. Lift the keyboard here, you've got the camera head, a couple of rollers depending on what type of pipe what size pipe you need to inspect. There's your camera head, this is a self-leveling 1080p camera. Depending on what size pipe you're looking at, you can use these two different spacers to help center it. This one works really well for 4in pipe.

Let me show you some of the features of this thing. It's got a sun shade that also protects the screen while it's closed up. Turn it on, and you can see whatever we're looking at here. It's got a self-leveling camera head on it, which makes it nice. So if I lay that right there a couple things here, you can record, play back, also take photos. Let me see if I can get a dark. Here you've got the distance that you have unwound the Reel and so that makes it really nice too. Because if you're coming out to something, you can measure how far out you are.

You've also got a couple of shortcut keys here. If you hit F4, that changes my units right there from meters to feet. You can also remove that display all together. If you want to off your screen, that's an F5. About the LED lights, you have 5 levels of illumination. You can also change that on the machine itself, not on the keyboard. Another really nice feature here is you can zero the counter. So say you pull out however much before you get to your pipe. Take a look, I'm 8.72ft out. You can hit F7 and that'll zero it back out. So if I'm just entering the pipe at that point, the counter will start back to zero. Now I can see where I'm at. I'm pretty excited about this. It's got a really smooth reel to it and I can't wait to give it a try.

 

Application of sewer cameras in different scenarios

Well inspection and cleaning

The first thing I want to do with this is I've got a property with a well that has really rusty, dirty water. I want to use this to inspect it and see if there's a crack in the lining. I mean in the casing or if maybe there's a crack in the Rock, and it's getting surface water into it.

Let's head over to that property. It's a rainy day today. I've got the camera, got this open up, I've got a light in here. This is an ancient well from the' 50s. We're going to see if we can pop get into this thing and see what we find. Look at that, I was trying to get these bolts loosened up, but this is all rigid pipe, so there's not much room to pull up. I gave this little nipple a tug and that slid out of there. Pretty well. So I should be able to access the well right there through that hole, which makes it really nice for me.

 

 

So let's see if we can get this camera rolling here. Okay so the well kicked on the well pump kicked on, and we dropped quite a bit here the level of the water dropped quite a bit. Now we're looking for water that is flowing in from the sides of the well, and we were at 45ft and looks like some debris got in the way. Well's kicking on again, all right. Now I'm right above the water so you can see the well pulling itself down, pulling the water level down going to try to chase it here. Look at how nasty that water is. I'm going to record this too once in the while you can see that the casing is Pretty Dirty.

Looking there's a lot of nasty water in here and a lot of what looks to be corrosion and maybe rust along the sides of the casing here and so the pump just turned on and that's why the water level is going down here, but we're at about 56 ft and that was one of the things I needed to know with this well was How deep the water was. I think it started out about 45 ft. Once the pump kicked on, it drops. When the pump kicks off, it rises back up. So that was a pretty important reading to know. From this first initial inspection of the well, just real nasty.

I have decided that I want to do a deep clean on this well, and the other thing I wanted to find out was how deep the pump was. So I decided to plunge the camera into the water. Typically, you would not plunge your camera into the well water. Since it's already so nasty and dirty, and I want to do a deep clean on it. I just decided to go ahead and plunge it in there. What I'm doing here is I'm just going to push it down until it hits something and stops, that may be a torque arrested may be the top of the pump whatever it is. That'll give me a pretty decent reading of how deep the pump is.

All right, I bottomed out at something. I'm hitting something at 110 the way. I'm going to deep clean this thing is I've got some pool shock here and this is 73% calcium hypochlorite. What with the idea here is we're going to dump this in the well. And then we're simply going to recirculate it for like an hour or more

That water's been circulating for a while, and hopefully it has cleaned out whatever was going on in there. All right, take a look at that, so that chlorine is loosened up a bunch of the gunk in there. I let this garden hose run here in the woods for a few hours and that really cleaned up the well and so what I want to do next is I want to run the camera back down there and just take a look at that casing again after running this deep clean with this chlorine this thing sure looks a lot nicer and cleaner that's for sure. At this point, the water still looked kind of bad, but the casing looked a lot better. I ended up running it and evacuating it for about like another 3 hours. And that cleaned up the water pretty good, but I didn't run the inspection camera back down after the water cleared up.

 

Drainage system inspection

Another way you can make money with an inspection camera is inspecting Drainage Systems, so let's see if we can take a look at what's going on with this one. It looks pretty good, let's run the camera down there and see what we find out okay looks pretty good so far I'm going to zero out.

My counter looks kind of dark. Look at that, there's some water held in there. Check this out, looks like I'm hitting a y right here and right upstream of that y there's a little bit of sediment in there, and hopefully it'll go down the right path. So it looks like at about 3 and 1/2ft there's some sediment okay looks like I'm hitting a y so it looks like there's a little bit of sediment being held in there, and hopefully it'll go down the right path that might be a break in the pipe.

Okay, I can't get around this corner, so I've got it comes with these little bushings here, and I don't know where the screwdriver is. Let's see if it'll get around that corner with that bushing on it. Now and I'm going to restart all right that got around it all right that got around it and there's another y right there, oh I think I'm going the wrong way.

At this point, the pipe looks perfect. Getting a little bit hard to push because we're at 96 ft okay I think that's the end down there, so I'm going to walk down there and close off that end and see if the light goes out. Okay I'm back over here, the light flickered as I covered it up. I'm going to turn my LED back on here and try again to get it to push through. But it might not make it, that's almost 100 ft of line.  It does seem to be flowing. It's clear after that. So you've got some sediment in there and that looks like it's right here within a few feet.

So that's another way you can make money with an inspection camera. Inspecting outdoor drainage systems for flow, blockage and cracked pipes, that kind of thing.

Culvert inspection

I'm out here where I recently redid a culvert and I wanted to check on the connection. So I thought this might be a good time to try out the inspection camera, so let me just show you what we had going on here.

There's actually a manhole in under the ground right there and that's where the connection was made, so it's probably been a couple of months since I did this work and I wanted to check on that connection and the only way to see it is via the culvert. So I'm going to run my snake or my camera through there and check it out, looks pretty good. Unlike the round manhole covers these rectangular ones will fall through there so you don't want to let that fall through, then you got to go fish it out.

Look at that, I'm almost there, I am so close. I just get over that little hump. What's happening here is this is a toot diameter pipe and the sewer camera just did not want to push through it, the pipe was too big so I did end up jumping into the drainage basin and try to get it pushed in there.

Okay, what we're looking at here is the mortar I put in around that curate, I mean that double wall culvert pipe. I just got that hydraulic in there got everything sealed up really nicely there's barely any room in there, so my hands are all messed up, and I'm all completely filthy. So that's what I wanted to see.

I wanted to make sure that concrete mortar was still that was quick. I think it was quick setting hydraulic cement, wanted to see make sure if that was still looking good, so yeah I'm in the manhole right. Let me see if I can pull out just a little bit there. I got that gap back on there and I feel excellent about how that's holding up in there.

Make money with Sanyipace sewer camera

I'm out here today looking at a job, and we have a lot of really saturated soil here and a drainage system that's already in place that was put in place by landscapers so it hasn't rained in a while and just look at how wet it is out here.

For some reason, this bank just stays really saturated. So Ronald and I came over here this morning and cleaned all this out. I'll show you what that looked like. This drainage basin is just full of all this sand and debris that's been washing down from the hill up here. So we're going to clean it out.

Today and hopefully get it flowing a little bit better and there's a drainage basin right here. So that might be part of the problem, but the homeowner and I were out here a couple of days ago. And we ran some water in these pipes, it just didn't really seem to want to come out. So I'm going to predict that one of these pipes is broken. It's just dumping the water underground. I'm going to camera and scope out that pipe. I think I'm going to access firstly through here. There's the pipe that they put in, so it's not very well sealed up. But let me get my camera going here and get in there.

This will be the first time I'm actually making some money with this camera. So I'm excited about that, go ahead and get it turned on, get our camera hooked up. I think I want to put the 4in roller on it. Still haven't gotten my right screwdriver, but this one does work okay. It's getting pretty dark, so I'm going to turn my LED on. Let me start recording. There's our first joint, make sure you can see this down.

If you take a look at this at about 23.5ft, we have a bulge in the pipe it looks like the pipe's been damaged, that's why my that 4-inch roller wouldn't go past that spot. This is schedule 30 pipe which I don't use it is PVC, but there's definitely a damage right there. That looks decent, you can see evidence of holding water here too. Okay all that looks decent as well looks like a hard 90, and I think that might be it for pushing it looks like a little bit more damage right there in the pipe, but it still seems to be okay.

I think the only thing I'd like to check now is these little short pieces, but they've got these adapters on there. So you can't access it. That's why I never put these down spout adapters and never put these on. These are all riveted they have to be drilled out, so there's no way to access that same thing here.

There's a ton of water in this area, it stays really wet. But if you look up here, all this is bone dry. My original hypothesis was that there was a break in the pipe somewhere, and we were injecting water somehow underground. You notice that they've got rocks up against the foundation, which rocks slow down and hold water. If the pipes are working fine, my other hypothesis was that the gutters are overflowing.

So let me get you up there and take a look at that old style gutter guard. I've already talked to the homeowner about getting out here during the rain. The rocks would obscure any drip line. It is possible if the gutters are overflowing, and the water's getting into these rocks. This could be slowly letting the water out and causing this persistent wetness. At this point we are gathering more information. We dug out and cleaned out the drainage basin. So hopefully that'll work better now, and get some of that surface water off. I just scoped the pipes to make sure they're not broken or cracked or disconnected.

The next thing the homeowner is supposed to be reporting back is if the gutters are overflowing. So my guess is they're the old style gutter guard. No matter how good of pipes you have, if the gutters aren't collecting the water and sending it into the pipe, you're going to have water out here.

Conclusion

So that's what I think is going on. Let me talk some more about that camera. I've had this inspection camera for a little while now. And I've done a few different things with it. Hopefully, you have really seen the value in having a camera like this for checking out different types of pipes. I used it for my well and for a couple of drainage pipes. You can also use it for septic pipes and along those lines.

The camera also functions as a transmitting beacon. If you have a 512Hz locator, you can locate this underground. That's especially useful in conjunction with the meter counter. How many feet out you are. Everything stores under the keyboard, which makes it nice and mobile. The one thing I did do, I added a couple of labels here for the different functions or keyboard to make it easier. So you've got units display, LED zero out, and locate.

So far, this thing's been working really well for me, and I really like it. If I have inspired you to get an inspection camera of your own, and you see the value in owning one, I will put a link to where you can purchase this directly from the manufacturer in the description. I hope you all have enjoyed this video, where I talk about some new equipment that I just got. This camera has been working out pretty well. I think it's going to be a great addition to what I'm out here doing, so if you did enjoy it, make sure you hit the like button and I will see you on the next one.

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