The groom to be was showing the wedding ring off to his friends at work the day before the wedding when it slipped from his grasp and fell down an industrial drain. The drain was about a 10-foot vertical drop before it turned sharply horizontal. The groom to be had no idea how far the ring had traveled or how it could be retrieved. Someone suggested a borescope rental to locate the ring. That was when Advanced Inspection Technologies received a very panicky phone call.
Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) specializes in the rental of borescopes, fiberscopes, videoscopes and long pipe inspection cameras for a variety of remote visual inspection applications at industrial sites around the world. Borescope rentals are used to examine pipelines, pumps, gearboxes, compressors, boilers, heat exchangers, headers, valves and air conditioning ducts. A borescope rental allows engineers to check for pitting, cracking, corrosion, erosion, weld and other defects in industrial systems that cannot be accessed.
AIT is also the leading source for industrial foreign object search and retrieval tools. These tools are used to remove loose parts and foreign materials from industrial systems.
"We were honored the young groom thought of Advanced Inspection Technologies in his time of need. We had the borescope rental tools he needed to locate and retrieve the wedding ring in his hands with hours,” said Paul Fitzgerald, president and CEO, Advanced Inspection Technologies.
The story ended happily for everyone. The groom was able to navigate the video borescope rental equipment to find the ring. The ring had traveled approximately 10 feet vertically and another 5 feet horizontal in the 3-inch pipe line. Once the groom located the lost ring, he used a foreign object retrieval tool to pluck the ring from its resting spot. The wedding went off without incident.
