Hi all
Just joined the list recently, and finding many of the conversations quite
interesting. I've heard many many stories of people blind and fully sighted
alike being treated poorly by sales people. I can honestly say that I have
not really had too many of those experiences, in fact, I
What really torques my jaws at Home Depot is whenever I ask a clerk for help
finding something, they want to know what I'm using it for. For instance,
I've ask them where I can find the number 8, one inch long, flat head, brass
wood screws. Invariably they will say, what are you using them for?
That's funny. Thanks for the info Jewel. Sometimes my wife of 25 years,
refers to me as her future ex husband.
Regards, Tom
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Jewel
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 6:10 PM
To:
Thanks Clifford, I thinks it's great to have been married for 39 years.
I've been married for 40 years. Let me see, first one, 4 years, second onee
11 years, third one, 25 years. Yep, I got it right, 40 years. Grin.
Regards, Tom Hodges.
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Hello Paul, and welcome to the list. You will see lots of great tips come
across the list, over time. Good job fixing monitor. Talk later. Don
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From: Paul
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Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:56 AM
Subject:
Al, I think that's a good idea having them next door to each other. It
wouldn't hurt either of them and it would be very convenient for us
customers. They match each others prices anyway so it wouldn't affect their
profits.
Regards, Tom Hodges
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Bill Stephan,
Kansas City MO
Email: wstep...@everestkc.net
Phone: (816)803-2469
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Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] surprising question
From: Tom Hodges tomhod...@fuse.net
Date: 11/17/2009 07:35
What really torques my jaws at Home Depot is whenever I ask a clerk for help
Bill, I received the email from you but can not find the message anywhere.
Tom
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Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:42 AM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan]
rob,
Don't know what the capacitance or voltage ratings of those caps might be,
the popular talking voltmeter has capacitance ranges that may help.
Good continuity testers, not the beep-nobeep kind in meters, but the kind that
make a tone whose pitch changes with resistance, can test a cap with
Tom: I wrote that on my cellphone while I was on the bus going to a meeting,
so who knows why it didn't get sent.
I said that sadly, questions like the ones you got from Home Depot are probably
driven at least in part by product liability concerns. There's case law out
there where product
F Y I...
The people at lows were quite friendly and helpful to me today. I came back
with 4 sheets of plywood, 8 by 4 I think it is, and about 12 96 8 foot 2 by
fours. Also picked up a couple more clamps, a nice ratchiting screw driver set
with many other pieces, such as utility knife, a
Thanks Bill, I got the message that time.
Regards, Tom
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On Behalf Of wstep...@everestkc.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:17 PM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: [BlindHandyMan] surprising
Shop clerk to Tom: Do you want a black eye? Tom to clerk: If I had wanted
one, I would have
asked for it!
Clerk to Tom: Believe me: Buddy: You did ask for one,so I will give you
one, and it won't cost
you a cent, although it may end up costing me several but it will be worth it!
Well Matt, sounds like you had a good day. Sometimes I think I could just
hang out at Lowes all day, as long as I had someone with me to tell me what
everything is.
At our Lowes, most everyone knows us by name now.It makes it more
enjoyable to go there.
Regards, Tom
From:
Matt! With an order like that, I am not surprised that the staff were
friendly!
Jewel
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From: Matt mattmull...@suddenlink.net
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] surprising question
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Don't discount the discount shelf either.
I was in tool world or whatever, the tool section of lows and a nice helpful
guy helpped me to find the ratchiting handles which someone on the list had
suggested?
Well, that was great, had the bits in the handle and everything.
Then we wandered by the
Check out those big nice sinks they have now?
They look like decorative glass or metal pots, and have to be mounted some how.
They have like cast iron twurley rods or something which they can sit in.
I forget the price, but they are suddenly the in thing evidently and we're
talking big bucks for
Yeah, all said and done, I spent over 200 bucks.
Not hard to do...
Now I have to go back and buy a door?
hahahahah,
Oops.
Matt
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From: Jewel
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] surprising
Just a reminder is all.
David Ferrin
www.jaws-users.com
VIP Conduit Tech Support
www.vipconduit.com
And, I think, some of those people are just
curious, and, with a blind person asking, that
peaks their curiosity more. Some of those store
people think it is great that I would even try
building something. I know, they shouldn't be
amazed at what we do, but, I think talking with
them helps
* I am amazed at what some of our blind handypeople do, so it is scarcely
surprising that sighted
strangers should be even more so!
Jewel
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From: john schwery jschw...@embarqmail.com
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:07
somewhat off topic maybe, but I've learned through
richard Oehm, that DTV converters that use the BroadComm chip set have
a neat signal strength meter that's accessible.
If you can find out that you have such, and they are distributed under many
brand names, try pressing
Menu
5
4
you'll get a
Well, I have always proclaimed that there are no accidents just careless
mistakes and today I had two blunders. I am constructing a printer stand for
a friend and it is nearly completed. I have it sitting on a small work table
about four feet to the right of my router table. I only had some
Hi all,
I am interested in playing with a router.
I have no experience with one of these, but I have the opportunity to
borrow one.
I have a good idea some of the things you can do with one.Do any of you
who are totals use a router?
thanks for any and all advice.
Max.
My careless mistake stabbed a one inch piece of plywood veneer into my
thumb -- went in one side and stuck out the other.
Took three trips to doctors, and finally a bit of surgery to get it out.
I'm thinking of gluing the splinter to a plaque and hanging it on my shop
wall
Blessings,
Tom
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I have 4 of them and I'm a total. Just keep a firm hold on it and your fingers
clear of the bit. BTW, if it's a hand held router, move from right to left.
That will keep the bit bighting into the wood. Left to right will cause it to
skip and jump and makes it very hard to control.
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Aloha Lenny,
Gosh, it's so amazing how quickly things can happen. Thank heaven you
weren't between the board and the stand.
Betsy
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Tom,
What will the caption be?
Grin...
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My careless mistake stabbed a one inch piece of plywood veneer into my
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Took three trips to doctors, and finally a bit of surgery to get it out.
I'm thinking of gluing the
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There may be something like this on the market, but I like to make my own
when I can.
I took a piece of half inch pvc, and a half inch dowel that will fit
inside.. The dowel is about an inch longer than the pvc.
I cut about half of one side of the dowel -- off the long side, not the end,
except
I too have four routers and have destroyed another two over the years.
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From: Bob Kennedy
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Using a Router
I have 4 of them and I'm a total.
hi tom i love this and will be making one soon.
how did you get the nut to stay in the pvc?
jim
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