Guys, I hate to editorialize but Mohammad Olli once said " if you can do it, it ain't braggin." I grew up in an ihra when we were at least given a chance not to brag. Now days with kinder and gentler, politically correct, the ADA, unleaded gasoline and Japanese cars. We are basically ham-strung by the system. It's our independence and nobody gets to screw with it.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of robert moore Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan]Maintaining a friends car. WAS Electric motor When the sighted think that life ends with the loss of sight it is unfortunate. When the blind think like that it is a tragity. Robert -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RJ Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan]Maintaining a friends car. WAS Electric motor How I agree. For the sighted world and some of the blind believe life ends with lost of sight. RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: robert moore To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:52 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan]Maintaining a friends car. WAS Electric motor 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:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> ]On Behalf Of Don Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 5:56 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> 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. 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