Re: [BlindHandyMan] Vita Mix

2010-03-29 Thread Spiro
I have a quisineard (spelling) and it's like a blender with changible blades. Watch out, they are sharp. On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Alan & Terrie Robbins wrote: > I have been considering getting a Vita Mix machine (kind of > like a blender, or food processor) for the kitchen. > Wondering if anyone

Re: [BlindHandyMan] replacing knob on mobile home door

2010-03-29 Thread Kevin Doucet
Thanks, I will tell her. At 05:51 PM 3/29/2010, you wrote: > > >A lot of parts used in mobile homes can be found >at camper supplies. Not many of them use standard >parts and there not cheap either. > >At 11:06 PM 3/28/2010, you wrote: > > > > > >Hi, > > > >A friend wants to replace the door knob

Re: [BlindHandyMan] replacing knob on mobile home door

2010-03-29 Thread Trouble
A lot of parts used in mobile homes can be found at camper supplies. Not many of them use standard parts and there not cheap either. At 11:06 PM 3/28/2010, you wrote: > > >Hi, > >A friend wants to replace the door knob on the front door of her >mobile home. We took off the old knob and its innar

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Accessible weather stations.

2010-03-29 Thread Melissa Riley
Speaking of weather, does anyone know of a usable weather station that has the thermometer and/or the berometer? The kind many people keep either in their kitchen window or just outside their home? Warmly, Melissa From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On

RE: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Andrus
and starts adjatating again, drain again, then starts >> spinning where you hear some water being injected into the tub as it spins. >> Then the water injection stops and it spins for about 5 minutes. In >> the pas with the Kenmore, the load would be finished, but with this

[BlindHandyMan] Accessible weather stations.

2010-03-29 Thread Sam Leonard
Hi all I've been lurking for a while and have gotten some good ideas about how to do things I would have never thought of. The electrical tape over the color identifier is one i wouldn't have thought of. Anyway I am interested in getting a weather station and need to pick y'alls brains about on

Re: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles

2010-03-29 Thread Brice Mijares
he water injection stops and it spins for about 5 minutes. In >> the pas with the Kenmore, the load would be finished, but with this >> woorldpool after what you'd think was the final cycle, you hear a buzz >> alerting that the load is done. But Wrong! The whole cycle starts over >> again. Is there a setting that all

Re: [BlindHandyMan] replacing knob on mobile home door

2010-03-29 Thread Kevin Doucet
>Hi Art, Yes, the latch mechanism did have two screws holding it in. >- Original Message - >From: Art Rizzino >To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 6:28 AM >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] replacing knob on mobile home do

RE: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Andrus
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles

2010-03-29 Thread Brice Mijares
is done. But Wrong! The whole cycle > starts over again. Is there a setting that allows this second cycleto be > shut off? I'm wasting both water and power with this unnecessary secon > cycle. > > __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signatur

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Water filter question

2010-03-29 Thread wstephan
Dan, thanks, I'm pretty sure it's just an activated charcoal filter, it's a slightly tapered cone with cristals in it. I wanted to be sure there wasn't some kind of molicular change going on because of the freezing. Bill Stephan Kansas Citty MO Email: wstep...@everestkc.net Phone: (816)803

RE: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles

2010-03-29 Thread john schwery
Whirlpool is w h i r l p o o l. earlier, Dave Andrus, wrote: > > >Hi Brice, > >Kenmore is made by World Pool. Both are very good machines. We have had >both. > >We purchase a World Pool about four years ago. We meaning my sighted wife >and I looked at a lot of wash machines. We learned that almost

RE: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles

2010-03-29 Thread Andy Borka
We were lucky to get one with the old fashon dial on it. -Original Message- From: Dave Andrus Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:39 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles Hi Brice, Kenmore is made by World Pool. Both are very good machi

Re: [BlindHandyMan] light weight handtruck

2010-03-29 Thread Lee A. Stone
look on the doctors side of that hand truck Lenny. if you use it only one time at a cost of $20 you save a trip to a doctor to fix your back. I have something similar but it is curved to move something like a heavy garbage pail. L On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:51:55PM -0400, Lenny McHugh

RE: [BlindHandyMan] washing machines cycles

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Andrus
Hi Brice, Kenmore is made by World Pool. Both are very good machines. We have had both. We purchase a World Pool about four years ago. We meaning my sighted wife and I looked at a lot of wash machines. We learned that almost all the machines on the market now take longer in their cycles to was

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Vita Mix

2010-03-29 Thread Scott Howell
My wife and I have had one for a number of years. They are very friendly as last I checked the controls are still switches and a rotating knob. I will tell you that this is one serious machine that has the ability to take a solid potato and turn it into liquid. In my opinion, they are well worth

Re: [BlindHandyMan] folding handtruck

2010-03-29 Thread Don
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] hello need some questions ansers regarding a car hope this is not off topic

2010-03-29 Thread Victor Gouveia
Hello Julio, If you do a Google search on the 1996 Geo Metro, you'll get quite a number of hits on your specific car. It seems to be the consensus that the car has transmission problems after 65000 kilometers or miles, don't recall which one, and is very noisy on the highway. It's not made fo

[BlindHandyMan] Vita Mix

2010-03-29 Thread Alan & Terrie Robbins
I have been considering getting a Vita Mix machine (kind of like a blender, or food processor) for the kitchen. Wondering if anyone on this list has or has had one and how blind friendly the units are? thanks Al

[BlindHandyMan] folding handtruck

2010-03-29 Thread Lenny McHugh
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] replacing knob on mobile home door

2010-03-29 Thread Rick Hume
I owned a mobile home once. I found that items related to the doors, windows, etc. often weren't standard. At first, I'd have a local mobile home service company send over a serviceman to make repairs. I'd ask him to explain to me the repair he was making, and after a couple of visits, decide

[BlindHandyMan] hello need some questions ansers regarding a car hope this is not off topic

2010-03-29 Thread Julio and Los pintores De La Cumbia
hello someone is selling me a geo metro car it's a 96 and it's full injection I want to know is this a car that will get me from point a to b and should I buy it do you know if it's a car that will give me probloems in the long run? the caust is 800 dollars Sent from My T-mobile Dash 3g. Julio

Re: [BlindHandyMan] replacing knob on mobile home door

2010-03-29 Thread Art Rizzino
Kevin, did the latch mechanism have two screws holding it in? I believe that I have seen mobile home doors that did not have any screws holding the latch in. Also sometimes mobile homes use non standard hardware for many things. Maybe the door is one of the things that uses non standard hardw