RE: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes
Alan, I could not agree more with you on kids earning money for themselves. Unfortunately snow in Oklahoma was rare but we made the most of any opportunity. Now, in Colorado my kids had ample chances to make a little moola on a weekly basis. (LOL) cy From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 3:25 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes When I was a kid, you would get one kid sitting in the car driving and another kid behind him to push it to the end of the block. Then, you swapped places for the return trip. The car was made of metal and raddled and vibrated down the sidewalk. You could feel every crack in the sidewalk on your butt but nobody cared. We weren't as big a sissies as kids are today. If you turned the wheels more then 45 degrees, you took a spill. Usually, it was the last time you did something that stupid. A cloths pin and an old baseball card turned any 2 wheeler into a motor bike and if you were really cool, you put one on each of the 2 wheels! As kids I never even thought of asking my old man for money. I knew what he'd say! We got a bucket and another kid with a bucket, you put soap in yours and he put water in his and you went banging on neighbors doors offering to wash their car for a dollar. You looked for pop bottles and filled up your American Flyer Wagon. If you couldn't find pop bottles you collected newspapers. We mode grass and raked it up. In the winter, we shoveled driveways and sidewalks. A chance of snow meant money in the bank! You tell a kid today to go out and make his own money and your abusing your kid and are some kind of low life parent for not giving it to them. I can't say on this list what I think of that. There are ladies present. Alan Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. - Original Message - From: William Stephan wstep...@everestkc.net mailto:wstephan%40everestkc.net To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:40 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes Lenny: I remember those pedal cars, though I never had one. We use do steal your sister's roller skates, which were metal then, and screw thm to each end of a 8 x 1 plank. Then we'd mount a wooden crate on the front and put handles on it. It was a great scooter and roared like a jet on concrete. Maybe all the children have segways these days, I don't know. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 14:04 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes Some great memories of Christmas Eve. Still, there will never be a replacement for the old individual owned hardware/toy stores. When I was old enough to help assemble toys for my younger brothers and sisters there was one hardware store from which my parents purchased everything. There was more than one year where putting something together we discovered that there was a missing part. I remember my dad calling the owner at 1 or 2 in the morning. Fran would say drive out the parts will be in a bag at the side door. He did that for everyone not just my dad. With support like that everyone that we knew only purchased from Saures' hardware. I sure do miss that store. Around 1960 we put two Scat cars together for my brothers. These were peddle cars that now remind you of a go-cart. Sure wish we still had them, last week on the History Channel there was a program about antiques. These cars now sell from $1,200 to $1,500. -- From: Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net mailto:alanandsuzanne%40earthlink.net mailto:alanandsuzanne%40earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:43 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes LLOL! when I was married to my first wife, we bought a tricycle for her. All I got was a box of metal parts and on the box it said Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes More like 20 days! There I am on Christmas Eve On the back of the tricycle were 2 steps to get up to the plastic seat. The holes for the second step were missing I mean not even there so here I am with only
[BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes
LLOL! when I was married to my first wife, we bought a tricycle for her. All I got was a box of metal parts and on the box it said Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes More like 20 days! There I am on Christmas Eve On the back of the tricycle were 2 steps to get up to the plastic seat. The holes for the second step were missing I mean not even there so here I am with only a power drill and the damn tricycle made of steal. There was some other toy to assemble as well. I don't remember what it was but I finished the job about 5 minutes before my 3 year old daughter woke up and ready for some serious Christmas present opening. I remember she was very happy with her bike and road it all over the house that morning. I think every body who has kids has at least one story like that. I was so torked off that the damn holes weren't even there and the second step was actually a reinforcement peace as well so I couldn't just leave it off. There was a swing set that Suzanne bought for the kids at Toys are us. I couldn't see what it looked like because I didn't go with her so she says I'll read the instructions to you over the phone if you get stuck. You've seen swing sets before. How hard can it be to put a kids swing set together. LOL! It took me 4 days but in the end, there were 3 A-frame supports, 2 regular seats, a trapeze, a sea saw and a 4 kid glider plus a slide attached to one of the A-Frames. I think my oldest was almost 20 when that swing set got pitched. Every kid in 2 miles had played on it at one time or another. There were ruts in the ground from kids shoes and that's some trick in the desert where the ground is as hard as concrete. Alan Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. - Original Message - From: Cy Selfridge cyselfri...@comcast.net To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:00 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Alan, My good friend, let me tell you a very short tale of woe about assembling items. One Christmas we purchased a doll stroller for our daughter and it *CLEARLY* stated that simple household tools required. Now, that is one of the most deceptive and misleading statements which could be used by any purveyor of goods. (LOLLOLLOL) We did see the finished product at Toys Are Us so we felt confident that success would be forthcoming. Much to our (particularly mine) dismay nothing quite lined up correctly. Of course, it was Christmas Even when this discovery was made. Fortunately I still had a tap and dye set and could make holes where holes needed to be. It took about 4 hours and quite a bit of Wild Turkey to assemble the wonderful little thing and I do not think wonderful was one of the words I used to describe it. (LOLLOLLOL) Cy, The Anasazi From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:28 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Claudia, We have a metal bed frame that is standard or queen. The queen is 6 inches wider then the standard with 3 inches on a side and the length is the same. Where the head board would be on the frame isa plate with holes in it. This plate holds the box spring esembly from shooting off the other end. When you buy a head board, there are holes in it that line up with those holes on the plate and hold the head board firmly in place. You can move the bed for cleaning because the plates on either side hold the head board up off the floor a bit so you can move it. Some frames can be adjusted to standard or queen. Others are queen and can be adjusted to king but the most popular size is queen. The kind of head board your talking about from Wal-Mart should mention in the add what size bed it fits. If you have a queen, then make sure you get a queen etc. Putting them together is childs play. If I can see what it looks like, I can put it together. My wife and I will go down to the store and she'll show me what she wants. I'll look it over real good and when we get it home, I can put most things together and the ones I have trouble with my sighted wife is there to read the instructions. We bought one of those kinds of head boards. Putting one together was pretty simple. Any bed frame you buy will accomidate a head board but given what you described, you don't need a new frame, just the head board. HTH Alan Okay, I need some explanation here. We have a queen-sized bed that sits on a metal frame with wheels. The bed has both its matress and box spring! The headboard is what's called a bookcase style. It's
Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes
Some great memories of Christmas Eve. Still, there will never be a replacement for the old individual owned hardware/toy stores. When I was old enough to help assemble toys for my younger brothers and sisters there was one hardware store from which my parents purchased everything. There was more than one year where putting something together we discovered that there was a missing part. I remember my dad calling the owner at 1 or 2 in the morning. Fran would say drive out the parts will be in a bag at the side door. He did that for everyone not just my dad. With support like that everyone that we knew only purchased from Saures' hardware. I sure do miss that store. Around 1960 we put two Scat cars together for my brothers. These were peddle cars that now remind you of a go-cart. Sure wish we still had them, last week on the History Channel there was a program about antiques. These cars now sell from $1,200 to $1,500. -- From: Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:43 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes LLOL! when I was married to my first wife, we bought a tricycle for her. All I got was a box of metal parts and on the box it said Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes More like 20 days! There I am on Christmas Eve On the back of the tricycle were 2 steps to get up to the plastic seat. The holes for the second step were missing I mean not even there so here I am with only a power drill and the damn tricycle made of steal. There was some other toy to assemble as well. I don't remember what it was but I finished the job about 5 minutes before my 3 year old daughter woke up and ready for some serious Christmas present opening. I remember she was very happy with her bike and road it all over the house that morning. I think every body who has kids has at least one story like that. I was so torked off that the damn holes weren't even there and the second step was actually a reinforcement peace as well so I couldn't just leave it off. There was a swing set that Suzanne bought for the kids at Toys are us. I couldn't see what it looked like because I didn't go with her so she says I'll read the instructions to you over the phone if you get stuck. You've seen swing sets before. How hard can it be to put a kids swing set together. LOL! It took me 4 days but in the end, there were 3 A-frame supports, 2 regular seats, a trapeze, a sea saw and a 4 kid glider plus a slide attached to one of the A-Frames. I think my oldest was almost 20 when that swing set got pitched. Every kid in 2 miles had played on it at one time or another. There were ruts in the ground from kids shoes and that's some trick in the desert where the ground is as hard as concrete. Alan Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. - Original Message - From: Cy Selfridge cyselfri...@comcast.net To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:00 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Alan, My good friend, let me tell you a very short tale of woe about assembling items. One Christmas we purchased a doll stroller for our daughter and it *CLEARLY* stated that simple household tools required. Now, that is one of the most deceptive and misleading statements which could be used by any purveyor of goods. (LOLLOLLOL) We did see the finished product at Toys Are Us so we felt confident that success would be forthcoming. Much to our (particularly mine) dismay nothing quite lined up correctly. Of course, it was Christmas Even when this discovery was made. Fortunately I still had a tap and dye set and could make holes where holes needed to be. It took about 4 hours and quite a bit of Wild Turkey to assemble the wonderful little thing and I do not think wonderful was one of the words I used to describe it. (LOLLOLLOL) Cy, The Anasazi From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:28 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Claudia, We have a metal bed frame that is standard or queen. The queen is 6 inches wider then the standard with 3 inches on a side and the length is the same. Where the head board would be on the frame isa plate with holes in it. This plate holds the box spring esembly from shooting off the other end. When you buy a head board, there are holes in it that line up with those holes on the plate and hold the head board firmly in place. You
RE: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes
Lenny: I remember those pedal cars, though I never had one. We use do steal your sister's roller skates, which were metal then, and screw thm to each end of a 8 x 1 plank. Then we'd mount a wooden crate on the front and put handles on it. It was a great scooter and roared like a jet on concrete. Maybe all the children have segways these days, I don't know. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 14:04 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes Some great memories of Christmas Eve. Still, there will never be a replacement for the old individual owned hardware/toy stores. When I was old enough to help assemble toys for my younger brothers and sisters there was one hardware store from which my parents purchased everything. There was more than one year where putting something together we discovered that there was a missing part. I remember my dad calling the owner at 1 or 2 in the morning. Fran would say drive out the parts will be in a bag at the side door. He did that for everyone not just my dad. With support like that everyone that we knew only purchased from Saures' hardware. I sure do miss that store. Around 1960 we put two Scat cars together for my brothers. These were peddle cars that now remind you of a go-cart. Sure wish we still had them, last week on the History Channel there was a program about antiques. These cars now sell from $1,200 to $1,500. -- From: Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net mailto:alanandsuzanne%40earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:43 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes LLOL! when I was married to my first wife, we bought a tricycle for her. All I got was a box of metal parts and on the box it said Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes More like 20 days! There I am on Christmas Eve On the back of the tricycle were 2 steps to get up to the plastic seat. The holes for the second step were missing I mean not even there so here I am with only a power drill and the damn tricycle made of steal. There was some other toy to assemble as well. I don't remember what it was but I finished the job about 5 minutes before my 3 year old daughter woke up and ready for some serious Christmas present opening. I remember she was very happy with her bike and road it all over the house that morning. I think every body who has kids has at least one story like that. I was so torked off that the damn holes weren't even there and the second step was actually a reinforcement peace as well so I couldn't just leave it off. There was a swing set that Suzanne bought for the kids at Toys are us. I couldn't see what it looked like because I didn't go with her so she says I'll read the instructions to you over the phone if you get stuck. You've seen swing sets before. How hard can it be to put a kids swing set together. LOL! It took me 4 days but in the end, there were 3 A-frame supports, 2 regular seats, a trapeze, a sea saw and a 4 kid glider plus a slide attached to one of the A-Frames. I think my oldest was almost 20 when that swing set got pitched. Every kid in 2 miles had played on it at one time or another. There were ruts in the ground from kids shoes and that's some trick in the desert where the ground is as hard as concrete. Alan Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. - Original Message - From: Cy Selfridge cyselfri...@comcast.net mailto:cyselfridge%40comcast.net To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:00 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Alan, My good friend, let me tell you a very short tale of woe about assembling items. One Christmas we purchased a doll stroller for our daughter and it *CLEARLY* stated that simple household tools required. Now, that is one of the most deceptive and misleading statements which could be used by any purveyor of goods. (LOLLOLLOL) We did see the finished product at Toys Are Us so we felt confident that success would be forthcoming. Much to our (particularly mine) dismay nothing quite lined up correctly. Of course, it was Christmas Even when this discovery was made. Fortunately I still had a tap and dye set and could make holes where holes needed to be. It took about 4 hours and quite a bit of Wild Turkey to assemble the wonderful little thing and I do not think wonderful
Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes
When I was a kid, you would get one kid sitting in the car driving and another kid behind him to push it to the end of the block. Then, you swapped places for the return trip. The car was made of metal and raddled and vibrated down the sidewalk. You could feel every crack in the sidewalk on your butt but nobody cared. We weren't as big a sissies as kids are today. If you turned the wheels more then 45 degrees, you took a spill. Usually, it was the last time you did something that stupid. A cloths pin and an old baseball card turned any 2 wheeler into a motor bike and if you were really cool, you put one on each of the 2 wheels! As kids I never even thought of asking my old man for money. I knew what he'd say! We got a bucket and another kid with a bucket, you put soap in yours and he put water in his and you went banging on neighbors doors offering to wash their car for a dollar. You looked for pop bottles and filled up your American Flyer Wagon. If you couldn't find pop bottles you collected newspapers. We mode grass and raked it up. In the winter, we shoveled driveways and sidewalks. A chance of snow meant money in the bank! You tell a kid today to go out and make his own money and your abusing your kid and are some kind of low life parent for not giving it to them. I can't say on this list what I think of that. There are ladies present. Alan Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. - Original Message - From: William Stephan wstep...@everestkc.net To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:40 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes Lenny: I remember those pedal cars, though I never had one. We use do steal your sister's roller skates, which were metal then, and screw thm to each end of a 8 x 1 plank. Then we'd mount a wooden crate on the front and put handles on it. It was a great scooter and roared like a jet on concrete. Maybe all the children have segways these days, I don't know. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 14:04 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes Some great memories of Christmas Eve. Still, there will never be a replacement for the old individual owned hardware/toy stores. When I was old enough to help assemble toys for my younger brothers and sisters there was one hardware store from which my parents purchased everything. There was more than one year where putting something together we discovered that there was a missing part. I remember my dad calling the owner at 1 or 2 in the morning. Fran would say drive out the parts will be in a bag at the side door. He did that for everyone not just my dad. With support like that everyone that we knew only purchased from Saures' hardware. I sure do miss that store. Around 1960 we put two Scat cars together for my brothers. These were peddle cars that now remind you of a go-cart. Sure wish we still had them, last week on the History Channel there was a program about antiques. These cars now sell from $1,200 to $1,500. -- From: Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net mailto:alanandsuzanne%40earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:43 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes LLOL! when I was married to my first wife, we bought a tricycle for her. All I got was a box of metal parts and on the box it said Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes More like 20 days! There I am on Christmas Eve On the back of the tricycle were 2 steps to get up to the plastic seat. The holes for the second step were missing I mean not even there so here I am with only a power drill and the damn tricycle made of steal. There was some other toy to assemble as well. I don't remember what it was but I finished the job about 5 minutes before my 3 year old daughter woke up and ready for some serious Christmas present opening. I remember she was very happy with her bike and road it all over the house that morning. I think every body who has kids has at least one story like that. I was so torked off that the damn holes weren't even there and the second step was actually a reinforcement peace as well so I couldn't just leave it off. There was a swing set that Suzanne bought for the kids at Toys are us. I couldn't see what it looked like because I didn't go with her so she says I'll read the instructions
Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes
yeah, that stuff isn't the count the holes count the screws and divide by type we're used to with furnature assembly. but it's worth it enough that we'd do it again. I just had to study hand brakes, with the pieces in my hand as one of them was locking up and made it hard for the little one to pedal. Okay, so what's next? On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Alan Paganelli wrote: LLOL! when I was married to my first wife, we bought a tricycle for her. All I got was a box of metal parts and on the box it said Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes More like 20 days! There I am on Christmas Eve On the back of the tricycle were 2 steps to get up to the plastic seat. The holes for the second step were missing I mean not even there so here I am with only a power drill and the damn tricycle made of steal. There was some other toy to assemble as well. I don't remember what it was but I finished the job about 5 minutes before my 3 year old daughter woke up and ready for some serious Christmas present opening. I remember she was very happy with her bike and road it all over the house that morning. I think every body who has kids has at least one story like that. I was so torked off that the damn holes weren't even there and the second step was actually a reinforcement peace as well so I couldn't just leave it off. There was a swing set that Suzanne bought for the kids at Toys are us. I couldn't see what it looked like because I didn't go with her so she says I'll read the instructions to you over the phone if you get stuck. You've seen swing sets before. How hard can it be to put a kids swing set together. LOL! It took me 4 days but in the end, there were 3 A-frame supports, 2 regular seats, a trapeze, a sea saw and a 4 kid glider plus a slide attached to one of the A-Frames. I think my oldest was almost 20 when that swing set got pitched. Every kid in 2 miles had played on it at one time or another. There were ruts in the ground from kids shoes and that's some trick in the desert where the ground is as hard as concrete. Alan Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. - Original Message - From: Cy Selfridge cyselfri...@comcast.net To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:00 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Alan, My good friend, let me tell you a very short tale of woe about assembling items. One Christmas we purchased a doll stroller for our daughter and it *CLEARLY* stated that simple household tools required. Now, that is one of the most deceptive and misleading statements which could be used by any purveyor of goods. (LOLLOLLOL) We did see the finished product at Toys Are Us so we felt confident that success would be forthcoming. Much to our (particularly mine) dismay nothing quite lined up correctly. Of course, it was Christmas Even when this discovery was made. Fortunately I still had a tap and dye set and could make holes where holes needed to be. It took about 4 hours and quite a bit of Wild Turkey to assemble the wonderful little thing and I do not think wonderful was one of the words I used to describe it. (LOLLOLLOL) Cy, The Anasazi From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:28 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Claudia, We have a metal bed frame that is standard or queen. The queen is 6 inches wider then the standard with 3 inches on a side and the length is the same. Where the head board would be on the frame isa plate with holes in it. This plate holds the box spring esembly from shooting off the other end. When you buy a head board, there are holes in it that line up with those holes on the plate and hold the head board firmly in place. You can move the bed for cleaning because the plates on either side hold the head board up off the floor a bit so you can move it. Some frames can be adjusted to standard or queen. Others are queen and can be adjusted to king but the most popular size is queen. The kind of head board your talking about from Wal-Mart should mention in the add what size bed it fits. If you have a queen, then make sure you get a queen etc. Putting them together is childs play. If I can see what it looks like, I can put it together. My wife and I will go down to the store and she'll show me what she wants. I'll look it over real good and when we get it home, I can put most things together and the ones I have trouble with my sighted wife is there to read the instructions. We bought one of those kinds of head boards. Putting one together
RE: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes
when mine was a tot, I put metal storm door screen onto the bottom of one of those kiddy flinstone cars. walk feet and move car. It was a dune buggy with roll bars and rather high walled at that. She could sit in there and I'd use ropes attached to decorative lugs (but they were molded of the heavy pvc) and by turning my wrist I could steer it while walking with my cane in the other hand. We used to go for long rides. On down hill I could jog a bit if I knew the path, but just stop it with the claf muscle as a bumper. On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, William Stephan wrote: Lenny: I remember those pedal cars, though I never had one. We use do steal your sister's roller skates, which were metal then, and screw thm to each end of a 8 x 1 plank. Then we'd mount a wooden crate on the front and put handles on it. It was a great scooter and roared like a jet on concrete. Maybe all the children have segways these days, I don't know. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 14:04 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes Some great memories of Christmas Eve. Still, there will never be a replacement for the old individual owned hardware/toy stores. When I was old enough to help assemble toys for my younger brothers and sisters there was one hardware store from which my parents purchased everything. There was more than one year where putting something together we discovered that there was a missing part. I remember my dad calling the owner at 1 or 2 in the morning. Fran would say drive out the parts will be in a bag at the side door. He did that for everyone not just my dad. With support like that everyone that we knew only purchased from Saures' hardware. I sure do miss that store. Around 1960 we put two Scat cars together for my brothers. These were peddle cars that now remind you of a go-cart. Sure wish we still had them, last week on the History Channel there was a program about antiques. These cars now sell from $1,200 to $1,500. -- From: Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net mailto:alanandsuzanne%40earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:43 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes LLOL! when I was married to my first wife, we bought a tricycle for her. All I got was a box of metal parts and on the box it said Easy to Assemble! Takes only 20 minutes More like 20 days! There I am on Christmas Eve On the back of the tricycle were 2 steps to get up to the plastic seat. The holes for the second step were missing I mean not even there so here I am with only a power drill and the damn tricycle made of steal. There was some other toy to assemble as well. I don't remember what it was but I finished the job about 5 minutes before my 3 year old daughter woke up and ready for some serious Christmas present opening. I remember she was very happy with her bike and road it all over the house that morning. I think every body who has kids has at least one story like that. I was so torked off that the damn holes weren't even there and the second step was actually a reinforcement peace as well so I couldn't just leave it off. There was a swing set that Suzanne bought for the kids at Toys are us. I couldn't see what it looked like because I didn't go with her so she says I'll read the instructions to you over the phone if you get stuck. You've seen swing sets before. How hard can it be to put a kids swing set together. LOL! It took me 4 days but in the end, there were 3 A-frame supports, 2 regular seats, a trapeze, a sea saw and a 4 kid glider plus a slide attached to one of the A-Frames. I think my oldest was almost 20 when that swing set got pitched. Every kid in 2 miles had played on it at one time or another. There were ruts in the ground from kids shoes and that's some trick in the desert where the ground is as hard as concrete. Alan Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. - Original Message - From: Cy Selfridge cyselfri...@comcast.net mailto:cyselfridge%40comcast.net To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:00 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Buying a new Bed? Alan, My good friend, let me tell you a very short tale of woe about assembling items. One Christmas we purchased a doll stroller for our daughter and it *CLEARLY* stated that simple household tools required
