Why We Sell These
We're plumbers and sewer lining contractors. We didn't set out to sell cameras — we set out to find one that worked.
We bought the name brands. All of them. We paid the premium, believed the warranty, and sent them back to the service centre when they failed. Then we waited. Sometimes weeks. Meanwhile the jobs didn't wait, so we'd buy another one.
There's a shelf in the back of our shop we call the sewer camera graveyard. Tens of thousands of dollars of dead equipment sitting there, most of it killed by one bad head or one kinked cable, none of it worth what the repair quote came back at.
What lining work does to a camera
If you do lining, you already know. Resin, grit, hot water, cleanup chemicals — the camera goes into the worst conditions on the jobsite and it comes out dirty every single time. Heads get scratched. Cables get dragged over broken clay and cast iron. It isn't abuse, it's just the work. Any camera in this trade is a consumable, whatever the brochure says.
The problem was never that cameras break. It's that the expensive ones break the same as the cheap ones, and then hold your business hostage while they're being fixed.
The repair that costs you twice
Here's the part nobody tells you when you buy a name brand. Send a damaged cable in for repair and they don't replace it — they re-terminate it at the point of failure. Whatever was past the break gets cut off. You pay for the repair, wait weeks for it, and the camera comes back shorter than it left.
Break it at 60 feet on a 131-foot reel and you now own a 60-foot camera. Do it twice and you're pushing 40 feet into a lateral that needs 80, and buying a whole new unit anyway.
When you change out a push rod on these, you get the full length back. Every time, for a fraction of what a re-termination costs.
What we found
These cameras are affordable, and every part that fails is a part you can buy and change yourself. Head, cable, reel, monitor — all available separately, all swappable on site with basic hand tools.
A blown head used to mean a repair quote and a two-week hole in the schedule. Now it means ten minutes in the van. We keep spares on the shelf and we stopped thinking about camera downtime altogether.
That's the whole pitch. We use these every day, we stock the parts because we need them ourselves, and the graveyard hasn't grown since.