for one if I walk into a shop and want to pick up a table saw or chaine saw why not sell it to me. For one how do they know that it's for me not a friends Birthday or a Christmas gift for me or a friend? I think if you're playing with sharp tools and injure yourself do to wood being warped and slipping or something unmechanical that it's not their falt. If you buy the machine and the blade comes spinning off and the screw is stripped or something like that and is clear that it was stuck on and that you just bought it because you still have the recete or something then I would see something being done about that but if you injure yourself by something that you're doing or that the wood is doing then it's not their fault and you should use precossion when working around electric machines. My friend has no fingertips on his one hand anymore because he was using a radial arm saw and the wood was a little warped and somehow pulled his hand in and chopped the ends off. The radial arm saw that is the one that you can pull back and forward to cut correct? I know the mitor saw, Extention cut off saw, might be the one that I'm thinking. I thought that the radial arm saw was the one that went up and down but that was the band saw. Anyway he cut his fingers off 20 years ago but still is in the shop today and really things happen. If I'm doing some shopping around by phone I will not tell them that I'm blind because I'm just wanting information on a product and who cares if it's for me or for a friend and I'm picking it up. Blaine ----- Original Message ----- From: Jewel To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] "can this be used by the blind?"
A couple of years ago, I bought a 20 inch chainsaw, and although I had been using these saws for years without having an accident, the salesman said that he would not sell it to me, unless I signed a waiver stating that I would not sue the shop if I had an injury accident. I did, but had no need to do so, as New Zealand has a "no fault" scheme wherein a person cannot bring an injury suit against an individual or corporate company. This scheme is funded by the government and levies on employers. However, The income of the ACC [accident compensation commission] is falling far below its expenses, and it is now in debt to the tune of about 4 billion dollars. The Government is looking at bringing in a law to make compulsory private health and accident insurance. Jewel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Kennedy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] "can this be used by the blind?" Couldn't agree more! ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Fowle To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:21 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] "can this be used by the blind?" Moderators, if this is unacceptably off topic I'll understand. Just to state my policy and maybe to cause a little "OT" flap, When I call a seller of a product that is not intended for blind folks, i never mention blindness or ask if there product can be used by the blind. Firstly how are they supposed to know, most sighted people havn't a clue, and second, you run the risk as was the case with a previous maker of talking meters, of causing the dealer to panic in fear of suits, and refuse to sell the product to blind folks. Mentioning blindness in that situation so rarely gets a usefull or positive response, and so often causes demonstrations of ignorance and prejudice, I don't think it's worth the risk. There are rare exceptions, sometimes in the case of travel it is to one's advantage to let a responsible hotel or airline etc. know you're blind and so on. But asking shmuck and company if there latest whizbang can be used by the blind is worse than a waiste of time. Tom Fowle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [email protected]! Groups Links __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4956 (20100318) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
