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On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, robert moore wrote: > I put new belts and plugs and a replacement headlight assembly > on a friends car today. > While I was replaceing the belts on our friends 1991 Plymouth Acclaim My > wife and our friend took our car to the salvage yard to get a replacement > headlight assembly. The headlight assembly got broken when she hit a deer. > They got back with the part and I installed it and replaced the spark plugs. > Well when I was all finished I put the garage door down and turned on the > lights so they could look and see if the lights were pointing straight or if > the replacement was pointing too far up or down. They were both surprised at > that little test and both said they would not have thought of that.Leave it > to a blind guy to make sure that the visuall part of the job was proper. My > wife told me today after our friend left that our friend was a bit nervous > about me working on the car the first time. That was about 4 years ago and > now she always asks me first if I can fix her car before she brings it to a > shop. > If the job is more than I can handle I tell her. If It is some thing that I > can handle I tell her that too. > Now she tells people that she knows, about the blind guy that works on her > car. > In my humble opinion, any time some one asks you if you could fix some thing > for them and you truly have the ability to perform the task, do it. It helps > all of us. The more people here about a blind person doing a particular task > that is one less person that you have to convince the next time. > So that's my 2 cents worth for what it is worth. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Don > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 5:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Electric motor > > Job well done, that is pretty cool > ----- Original Message ----- > From: RJ > To: Handyman > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 4:10 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Electric motor > > Today a neighbor lady called and said the motor for the fan on her > dehumidifier wasn't working and asked if I would take a look at it. Now that > is some thing to ask a blind guy. But I did go down and tore the unit apart > and found the motor is a throw away, no way to get at the bearing. I sprayed > W D 40 over the motor, figuring I couldn't hurt the motor. any worse than > it was. Sure wasn't turning the way it was, for the bearings and shaft > were froze. Took the fan off the shaft and put my 1/2 inch electric drill on > it. The shaft began to turn, and I had her drop some penetrating oil on the > shaft. After a few minutes and a few more drops of the oil the shaft began > to freely turn. Put the fan back on the shaft and it spin like a new one. > Put every thing back together and the dehumidifier was working like a > charm. Than she told me, her gas fire place wasn't working. This was a > little more tricky, seeing I never felt around one of these. Tore the thing > apart and cleaned up the electric points and moved a few wires around. Don't > have the slightest ideal what I did, but it is also working like a charm. > Guess now and than even a blind squirrel finds a acorn. > > RJ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
