At least this male, somewhat sortof handyman, also thinks it's
more than time to stop pointing such simple toolkits at women.
Not that there isn't a place for simple, light weight, basic kits, it is just
that that place has nothing to do with sex, sexual preference, planet of
origin, guide dog us
Back in the late 70s when we had a big drought here,
I just removed the trap from the garage sink, capped the sewer line with
an appropriate pipe cap, and put fittings from the sink drain
to garden hose size. Then ran a garden hose out maybe 20 feet to the dry soil.
At that time I had no problems
Can't help with crossing the walkway, but you don't want to add load to the
outlet hose, as in having to push through the pipe, you want to use the garage
sink as a flow control device, kind of like a capacitor that the washer charges
up quickly and the slower flow through the hose, pipe etc. disc
Dan,
Of course, kidding obviously I hope.
Now where is it the women are strong and the men are good looking?
Was it Pitsburgh
and all the blind people are nearly above average!
Poor Ray, I'm sure he didn't mean it at all, and he's quivvering in his
mucklucks.
Tom
To listen to the show archi
A sighted person might get in there with small tweezers and do it, without
opening it up, but those jacks are in a molded plastic housing these
days so even if you opened up the thing you can't get inside the jack
except through the hole into which you put the plug.
I wouldn't try it without sight
Dan,
Jeez another crazy successfull mechanical engineering job!
congrats!
Do you have a nearby window out of which you can just heave the thing and have
it land somewhere near a cellar window? If the stairs are that bad, what
leads you to believe there is anything high to which to hang all
the li
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Have fun
Tom Fowle
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u can afford em.
Tom Fowle
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You can build a house with mud and straw and thatch and probably using
only your hands, but you wouldn't want to live there in the rain.
You can get your food by hunting and gathering if you live some places
but I'd not take any bets on most modern people surviving that way
including my self of co
hole.
The spade bits are not good for going entirely through the wood
unless you go part way through and flip the work to finish from
the other side.
with either tool, of course, keep hands away from the tool while
spinning.
I'd use the hole saw my self.
Tom Fowle
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Agree with Victor, without wanting to be nasty, please enough of this topic
especially with the sniping! It's not in our spirit and is uncalled for.
Thanks
Tom
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We've had a sears washer and drier set with front loading whasher that's
supposed to use much less water for about 2 years now.
Everything boop and others wsay about this type of machine is true.
The spin, if set on fast, is a bit noisy but otherwise the machine is very
quite. Varriable rotation
Them stone biscuits, yummie, eat em for breakfast every day!
How do you think they build the pyramids!
tom
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ht
1960s for many years, it had wash and dry on a single timer
cycle. It used cold water to cool the excess heat from the dry
cycle and thus did not need an air vent. The dry was very hot,
but if the cloths could stand the temperature it did a good job
and no need to move cloths from one machine to
brice,
I had an old kenmoor that did just that, I found that wires had
become brittle and broken at several joints inside the back of
the machine. I suppose heat and vibration take their toll. I
just opened up the back after disconnecting the power of course,
and examined all the wiring and conne
Way to go Dan!
Bloody impressed good thinking through and well done.
tom
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Hey Ray,
This was a great article, more than any of us need to know
about wire, very interesting
Everything I see on sail boats these days is stainless and so far as I know
wire cored. Mostly swedge fittings although I know one guy with old fashioned
ideas who uses spliced eyes in his standing ri
It would be interesting to do the trig necessary to find the error caused by
the click rule sometimes needing to be at a slight angle to flat, I'd bet
it's very small. The more extensions you need, the longer the measurement,
the smaller the induced error Unless the edge I'm measuring too at the
stalled. You'd
have to contact Envision America and talk to them about international
expansion.
The machine does NOT read the print lable, there is a chip added by the
pharmacy that carries the info.
Tom Fowle
it'll fit your needs.
Tom Fowle
Jim,
How level do you have to hold it when closed for the dial to float really fre?
Tom
?
Gary,
It wouldn't have allerted you to your error unless you'd
had some reason to stop and check, The talking compasses, like the Columbus
have a resolution of 45 degrees or so, so whe they work they can tell you
if you're 90 degrees off course. I'd try to find an edge to
track or other land mark
there is a review of ScripTalk, the new drug prescription labling system
in the current January 2009 issue of AccessWorld at:
http://www.afb.org/accessworld
tom
the only criticism I have of Dale's excellent description is
it makes me exhausted just reading it.
Out here in San Francisco we're short of water and long on sun which
may get to be a real problem this summer, but there
won't be anything to shovel till we have to dig wells.
tom Fowle
a stop watch, as does the robotron Aria, a
1990s similar product.
I know an engineer who has at least prototyped one, and will write him and
see how it goes.
There may well be other talking clocks out there with stop watch functions.
Tom Fowle
Hey Ray,
do you really mean this guy cut all the guttering and stuff with just a plain
old hand held hacksaw?
Wow, to me that either means he's cheap or he really has the experience to
be able to do it perfect the first time.
And from what you say, it's the latter possibility. He knows he can do
Luckilly I don't have to fix this:
About 20 years ago my landlord had the roof of our duplex redone by a cousin
who wa supposed to be a contractor.
Turned out they installed the gutters wrong so all the water ran up under the
shingles. so they cut off the roof back to the
edge of the wall and re-d
touch
you can read it pretty well without moving it, and it's only
a few bucks. Of course you look like you're
doing E ching or dousing for iron but what the heck, it may be
better than being lost.
Tom Fowle
included crossing large open areas with no sound or tactile
cues
The compass in the referenced article would give only 30 degrees of
resolution, maybe not bad over the long haul, but not good enough to get you
to that entrance across the big parking lot.
All very interesting
thanks
tom Fowle
Smith-Kettlewell RERC
San Francisco.
David,
On the assumption, which you should test, that they
reverse the polarity of D.C. to the drive motor,
a diode and a piezo beeper from radio shack should do the trick.
If they are using something other than a simple D.C. motor, then it gets more
hairy.
Tom Fowle
e carpets, so I don't have to worry about cleaning them.
Tom Fowle
turers make TVs with that capability
for just that situation, but I doub the average boob tube can do it.
Tom Fowle
Of course nobody said the vac that can only lift a 2Lb item
is developing 14.7 PSI of suction. However also involved would be the cross
sectional area of the pipe or hose, and the seal that developes between the
pipe and the item in question.
tom
Nope, you're just sending the same remote codes to the same TV with
a different remote.
Tom
I think you'll do better trying to limit the receiver's angle of reception
withsomething like a paper tube. first assuming you can actually find where
the darned receiving detector is mounted. Of course the staff will remove
it, not knowing what it is for.
Tom
What happened to sec 255 is the universal cop out in all such
laws, "When technically feasible!" which "they" all use even though it's a
lie. If it costs one red cent more to make things accessible capitalists
call it nonfeasible.
Tom
ny thing
else would be a way to end it all, and I'm not there yet and hope nobody
else is.
tom Fowle
like H---
when it hits the open cut, but then you know you've applied it where it
s
needed. If applied over and around the cut pretty well, it forms a coating
that keeps the cut closed and clean, assuming you wash first, for maybea day.
At least you don't have a messy bandaid comming off and getting caught up
in things.
tom Fowle
Ouch, with all that open surface area, that would hurt.
Tom
ds to enter the hole in the striker plate and
jam is the bolt its self.
Hope that helps
Tom Fowle
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:09:00PM -0600, Kevin Doucet wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I already have a door knob with a key lock and it does have the extra
> part on the slide. I am just asking what i
Hi Scott,
Max's idea of using ballanced inputs may work if your mixer has them, but I
doubt that it does, that's usually limited to commercial audio gear.
What you probably need to do is "break" the ground to one or other of the
computers, probably the laptop. Now, of course, just breaking
the gr
Mat,
I'd try sixty watts, don't think I've seen many fixtures that wouldn't take
that.
but I doubt using the wrong bulb would cause bulb burnout, more likely
premature fixture failure
Tom
Scott,
I'm told radio shlock makes cables of the type you may want, They might be
called isolator cables or ground loop prventers or the like.
I'll have a colleague look when I have time.
tom
"Ground loop isolator", This is a stereo cable with RCA plugs on both ends
comes with 1/8Th inch adaptor. presumably has two magnetically shielded
transformers.
Price $16.99
Catalog #270-054
They don't give the length but it may help
Tom Fowle
a larger surface?
Thanks
Tom Fowle
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:27:09PM -0600, Terry Klarich wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I just wanted to send a short email discussing the installation of my attic
> or whole house fan. My Wife and I decided to install a
> whole house fan to hopefully
As a total bat, it seems silly to spend lots on the fancy
Kindle display, although if they had large fonts, low vision folks might find
it very helpfull.
A rare situation in which it might turn out that devices made for the bat
market could actually be price competative with "visie' mar
herwise they'd have to be in the crawl space and I've
not been down there and have no desire to go!
Few years back, I nearly moved in to a mobile home that had
not a single shutoff anywhere. I'd have fixed that quick.
Tom Fowle
Dale,
You have a point there, yes Kindle does use several proprietary formats and
will have access to materials before they get to one of the bat systems.
And yes there is that silly worry about synthetic speech taking market from
audio books.
Being cheap, I would rarely pay for books I can get f
;ll rust over
pretty quickly. but when really sharpened on a razor stone and a proper
leather strop, will be much sharper than a modern blade.
Not that i have the guts, or the spare blood, to try one on the old "dial"
tom Fowle
you're talking about the upcomming "over the air' digital TV, then any of
the available digital to analog converter boxes has audio out jacks that can
be dealt with as above. Of course the accessibility of the converter boxes
leaves some to be desired, thanks FCC and republicans once again.
Tom Fowle
David
How many, how accurate holes? is this like sheet vynl or more like
harder acrylic?
If it's fairly hard, I'd say a drill and a square file.
You won't find an actual punch like that I think unless you need a large
number of holes the cost of a real punch with dye would be p
sed slot as you can, then you could
drill out some holes in the middle to make cleanout easier.
You could try cleaning up the edges with a wood chisel held vertically with
the flat sides out, but either press only or tap very gently to avoid
cracking. then file it clean.
tom Fowle
donny,
So far as i've heard they will have a longer shelf life if stored
in the refrigerator, not the freezer.
Presuming they're alcaline that is, not sure about zinc carbon.
tom Fowle
Kevin,
I assume you used to be able to turn the drum by hand?
If this is a top loader, does the top rim of the drum look like it
may have shifted position at all in relation to the housings
around it?
Sounds like a destroyed main tub bearing to me, but hope not.
Tom Fowle
USB connector. It's 12 volts at half an amp which
meets the USB power standard.
If you have trouble finding one, I can ask my wife if she can find
specific info on the one we bought.
That'd be a good gizmo for the mice to get.
Tom Fowle
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:28:46PM -0400, Lenny
batteries, and it's so easy to do.
Otherwise tell Dish it is a problem and they need to replace the remote
or send you a supply of batteries
Tom Fowle
small
pain, but much better than buying new cells all the time.
Tom Fowle
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:49:54PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> I ended up switching to rechargeable batteries because our Dish remote
> seem to be eating them rather quickly as well.
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 6:3
Another way to tell if a remote is stuck or working at all is with an
audible light probe if you have one. All the photo sensors I've tried that
might be used in probes pickup the infrared from remotes pretty well. Just
hold the sensor of the probe within an inch of the business end of the
remote
d you have.
If it's not a real ground rod, like 8 footer, it should be.
As for location, as high as you can get it is all that matters asside from
physical strength of the mount, and you're a mechanical dudt ain't you
Sounds like you're correct, why get ripped off by cable
wire from the mast to
a very good ground may help drain off some of the energy in a close miss.
Tom Fowle WA6IVG
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:57:36AM -0600, Gerry Leary wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
> WB6IVF Gerry Leary here. First I don't know much about the antenna you have,
> so I do
hange with function and pop up meus
it's a mess.
Always the cynic, and sometimes even correct!
Tom Fowle
Dan,
I assume you have some noteworthy electrical storms there, and if so, I think
whatever protection you can manage may; help. But it does have to be pretty
serious, just a small wire to a water pipe or the like isn't worth the trouble.
It needs to be at least no 10 wire to a very good ground,
Way to go Betsy, gloat all you want.
Tom
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:48:34AM -1000, Betsy Whitney wrote:
> Aloha all,
> We got the shower fixed about a month ago, but I didn't get around to
> a follow-up message. This is one of those things that people who are
> blind do best.
>
> The problem wa
Dan,
I know of a vga to ntsc video converter that would do the job but there are
probably other ways, Look for vga to S-video
Tom
Bill,
first, of course, stay the heck away from power lines but you know that.
Every year or so hams are fried to death trying to put up a big beam
or something too close to the power lines.
Most short wave receivers are designed to be not very pickey about
antennas just because randomness is expe
he insulated the top
> strand of a barbed wire fence that covered a couple hundred acres. He said
> it was the best receiving antenna he'd ever had, so I guess the old guy
> wasn't kidding after all.
>
>
> Bill Stephan
> Kansas Citty MO
> Email: wstep..
This is probably getting to esoteric for this list, but
the only situation I know of where a grounded mast might be an issue is with
a vertically polarized beam type antenna, which T.V. antennas are not.
In that case, the mast might look to the antena like another partial,
and non resonant, elemen
a door was left open too long. Check around pipes
doors dryer vents and anywhere else anything penetrates the walls/floors.
Our landlord won't allow cats, so no experience with them.
good luck
Tom Fowle
ray,
We'll see what Ron thinks, but I'd not bother changing for just an ampere of
difference.
The rating of the fuse is the current it will pass in normal operation
NOT, as some think, the current required to blow it. You're only up by an amp
even if the caravan pulls its full 15 amps, so no deal
Problem might be that you don't know for sure that the 2 120 volt lines are
actually from the two sides of the service. There may be an easier way, but
I think you'll need an A.C. voltmeter that goes at least to 250 volts
to chec between the two hots to see that they are
actually 240 volts apart.
tubes.net
> Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com
>
> To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to,
> funwithtubes-subscr...@yahoogroups.com
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Tom Fowle"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:08 PM
>
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> - Original Message -
> From: "Tom Fowle"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Question to Electricians on this
I do seem to recall that european fuses may be "blow' at rated current
and U.S. are'flow through" at rated current.
changing fuse ratings should make no difference to how
the device operates, fuse resistance is minuscual compaired to the impedance
of the device.
Reminds me of a guy who called us
Silver solder melts at a much higher temp than tin/led and creates a much
stronger bond mechanically. It'll stand the temp shock of refrigeration
much better than tin/led
You wouldn't use silver for audio cause it's more expensive and
there is no point, unless maybe in a very corosive environmen
tom,
This may be late, but my guess is that ther is a near short
in wiring to the fixture and the bump caused a temporary short. which
blew the electronics in the dimmer but not the switch.
I'd turn off the power and have a close look at the wiring to the fixture
for worn insulation etc
much fuss you want to go to now
to get better materials versus how often you wanna fix it.
Tom Fowle WA6IVG
at kind of standard is that there are so many to choose
from!
Tom Fowle
in an extension cord
that's not plugged in till you think it fits well, then let it go
till the prong actually breaks, hopefully it doesn't
break off in a socket. I've re-bent many prongs and never had a problem.
tom Fowle
Is there a developing standard for ears?
I've never found an "In the ear" type that stays in my pinnae.
tom fowle
Balsa grows on trees, (No really?)) in central
and south America.
Maybe should say "in" trees, not on them.
Tom Fowle
Be carefull there, didn't you know that cold ones are
by there very nature "grounded" and if you suck too hard whilst
dragging the cord, you're likely to end up flat on your--
Sorry the picture was just too good to miss.
tom fowle
Dan
Have you ever looked to see if they have model with any kind of port for
output?
Tom
The wind turbines I've been around, some on boats, some huge
commercial ones, are pretty noisy. I'd check pretty
carefully before investing.
Were I in a position to go solar, I'd do it for
break evenzies in money just to reduce dependance
on gas or coal. Can't do it in a rented house unfortunate
thanks Dan will look
Tom
at of loss of license usually
has some effect. If she went with an unlicensed contractor, then civil court
is her only backup and good luck to her.
Tom Fowle
quot;us"!
Hope that helps, ask if you want more clarification.
There was a basic review of converter boxes in AFB's Access world a few isues
back.
Luck
Tom Fowle
Embedded Systems Developer/ Rehab engineer
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
231
And, since I'm feeling rebellious and anti establishment today,
Here's something somebody might try which would be quite illegal.
Take the digital to analog converter box, which
presumably has been set up with power and an antenna.
Connect its R.F. output, which would be set to either chanel 3 o
Spiro,
Nope, the converter boxes output on analog VHF chanel 3 or 4, just so as to
work
into almost any old piece of junk everybody has.
tom
is down at the moment, I wmay not be back to read
answers till Monday.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Tom fowle
quot;pull" end of the saw.
You have to stand back from the work a bit to get a good straight pull.
I am no joinery crafts person, can barely cut to follow scribed marks straight
but these are easy to use when you keep them going straight so they don't
bind, and I think they bind less tha
nutts. And, of course, as with all such devices
take three readings and see if they agree before deciding it might just be
kinda close.
tom Fowle
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:05:47AM -1000, Betsy Whitney wrote:
>
> >I saw this item and wondered if anyone had any experience with it. I
>
Scott,
Yes, it has a frequency meter and measures capacitance, and maybe some other
stuff i forget now. It also has LEDs at the probe tips
if you care.
The jacks that hook the probes to the meter are non-standard so replacement
probes might be an issue.
but for that price, you can't go very wrong
thanks all who replied about the compressor, i don't need it
regulated, think the portable car one sounds like a plan.
Tom
I've sometimes just use plains backwards, on the pull,
even though it makes holding them hard. You have much better controll.
I agree about scrapers, they cut, sand paper grinds and leaves junk in the
pours of the wood. All good violin makers finish with scrapers wherever
possible.
Tom Fowle
there is a mechanics list but I want the concise version for engineers
who just want to know what to tell "them!"
Off list is fine if you don't want to clutter it up.
fo...@ski.org
Any advice muchly appreciated.
thanks
Tom Fowle
tive tissues, but I don't know of any worse effects unless you really got
the stuff deeper in the old bod.
Tom Fowle
I would question using bondo for patching a hole which I assume is an inch
and a half in diameter or so. That seems like a very large amount of the stuff
and unless applied in several layers might never dry inside the mass and thus
not be strong. Seems to me that if the hole is that kind
of size a
;s probably
correct, and if it doesn't fit, don't force it.
tom Fowle
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:36:23AM -0700, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Greetings All: The fan that exhausts to the side in my desktop computer is
> failing.
> Are these just plug-in units?
> I have not explore
reaction sounds reasonable, it should
probably be well bonded to the electrical service ground and anything else
that wants to be "earthed".
Tom Fowle
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0400, Dan Rossi wrote:
> So, I have been getting some quotes from plumbers on moving my water line
There is an outstanding article by our very own dale Leavens on
soldering copper pipes on the BHM files page.
tom Fowle
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