Try
WWW.leevalley.com
There are probably other places, these are of really high quality and come in a
rather nice plastic case.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan & Terrie Robbins
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 7:44 AM
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Aligning a saw blade when ripping
Dale,
These set up blocks sound interesting and very useful. Any big box stores
handle such things or do you have an on line vendor. Were these developed
for blind folks or sighted individuals and we've just found a good use for
them? Approximate cost for a set?
thanks
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Dale Leavens
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:05 PM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Alining a saw blade when ripping
You might like to investigate set-up blocks. They are available several
places. One common set has a metal block 1 by 2 by 3 inches, a series of
half inch by 3/4ths, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16. This is somewhat limiting but
you could cut yourself some hardwood blocks say 4 6 and 12 inches or what
ever else all to be used in combination.
I did a lot of work with a folding boxwood carpenters ruler with tacks
installed to make tactile dots, 24 inch, 36 inch and 1 meter used to be
available from RNIB and other vendors. These aren't necessarily easy to use,
blind parallax is way worse than sighted but with practice one can get
pretty Goode.
For us, the cost of such devices is really a disadvantage. I have seen 24
inch folding carpenters rulers in our hardware store for under three dollars
while paying over thirty dollars for a marked braille one otherwise exactly
identical.
----- Original Message -----
From: Agent086b
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Alining a saw blade when ripping
Thanks for all this info.
Only problem I have I can not purchase a rotomatic in Australia. I have
tried the NFB or something in the US, but they have not replied to my
email.
So I only have my talking tape measure with all it's querks.
Max.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Alining a saw blade when ripping
From: john schwery <jschw...@embarqmail.com>
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 5 December 2009 12:25:06
> With my rotomatic, I have no trouble at all. I
> put one end against the fence and align the blade
> with the fence on the rotomatic.
>
> earlier, Agent086b, wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> the earlier question and answers got me thinking. When ripping I find
it
>> hard to measure from the fence to the saw blade accurately.
>> What wonderful answers can we get to this one.
>> Thanks as always for the help.
>> Max.
>>
>
> John
>
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