Jim,
Not as far as I can imagine unless the chips fall on your
tuna sandwich.
Of course it's a start spot fo rust and leakage of water into the guts if you
have a big spill.
tom
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And find me anywhere else you can get a 500MHz frequency counter
with an output you can read for $45.00!
Gett em while there're hot!
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Jewel,
How steep is the roof? is the iron roofing flat, or horizontal where it meets
the gutter or is it a pitched roof?
If it isn't pitched too steeply it might be capilary action, or the tendency
of water to follow any surface it is flowing on. Other than some kind of seal
to force the water
I'm sure there are stove and other much less expensive indoor options,
but they still have to be installed by someone who knows what they're
doing.
I also wouldlove an indoor fireplace but in a rented small duplex it ain't
gonna happen.
tom
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I have and occasionally use a basic variable speed dremel tool set.
They are much harder to use than you'd think, the tool, unless very strongly
held
wants to walk and twist. I can not carve a straight line or follow a marked
curve
at all with one.
Also the bearings are not that great so that
Since the camera trick is of no use to us without sighted help,
try your light probe. All photo sensors responde to infrared just fine,
you'll hear tha beep when you press the buttons, usually you can hear
multiple beeps when you hold down the buttons.
tom
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Dale,
Yes, I don't doubt that a long cord under load can get hot if it isn't heavy
enough wire. I just doubt that rolling it up makes any difference except
perhaps that heat which is produced is more trapped by the coil.
If a cord gets very warm at all, it is too light for the job.
as for the
I doubt the use of epoxy in a heater, most of them melt at pretty low temps.
Tom
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Jay,
Welcome to the list, I'm sure you'll be able to contribute a lot.
There are an amazing number of very experienced folks here and a lot of
interesting ideas get passed around.
Yes, life with out doing stuff with the hands wouldn't be worth living would it.
tom Fowle
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Lou,
Don't know about Proxon, will check it out, assume more expensive than Dremel.
thanks
Tom
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I can imagine no reason for not using looped or coiled extension cords,
if I did that, I'd never hook up a bloody thing in our house, we use em all
over the place under around things etc.
Maybe they worry that cords which are not really heavy enough for a job might
get warmer if they're bundled
I've always thought the service feeds are insulated, but it could certainly
break down or crack, and I've heard too many varified stories of folks getting
zapped when using ladders or installing antennas to think
there isn't a problem.
I think the wires in a service feed are far enough apart so
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Thank you for your inquiry concerning DigiCite.
DigiCite is a machine vision system that is used to convert alphanumeric
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output, for blind and visually
I've tried feeling the oil levels on a gas and diesel marine engine and
can't accurately feel it either.
And I read braille regularly.
Not accusing anybody of inaccuracy, some may be able to feel it,
maybe has to do with variations in skin type and oiliness.
Two ideas, neither new, one I think
Jewel,
You've always seemed like a highly competant person to me too.
Finding the correct contact is often nearly a miraculous happening,
hope it continues fruitfull.
Tom
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Jennifer,
As long as you have a good tight seal around the plastic I can't imagine
why it should be dangerous.
Unless you or someone smells exhaust while riding in the vehicle.
which circumstance should always be taken very seriously indeed.
Having such a repair may or may not be illegal
available with decorative covers etc. but i think it is up to
your local code whether or not they permit it. The entire
building in which I work was redone that way in 1998 even
including offices and conference rooms etc. where looks mattered.
If the system is that old you'll probably have to
ron,
A great post,
Another way is to get what they call an electric finder' little
gizmo looks like a pen light with a small disk instead of a lense.
It buzzes when brought near a hot wire. Also buzzes when it's
tip is inserted a bit into the 'hot' side of a live socket. Can
also tell you if
Hi victor,
As max says,If you've only got a mike in port, yo're probably going to send
it into overload and get a lot of 'clipping' distortion.
But try it with the mike level set as low as you can and bring it
up slowly see if you can get a low enough setting to make it
work.
If not go to radio
Ron,
Now that straw for dipstick is darned clever and
something I should have thought of, I assume a similar technique should work on
a marine desel?
thanks
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Your message was perfectly fine and i don't
think was in any way related to anything offensive.
Best and welcome again.
Tom Fowle
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ed,
Nothing to engineer about the plumb bob level, just make sure the
botttom rail and one side are truly square if you want vertical
too.
Can be calibrated easilly after built by just rotating it side to
side on a surface that is level and making sure the bob hits same
point on bottom rail then
robert,
what we have, and they are un fancy in the extreme, are many sets
of steel utility shelving from Sears or the like.
they're often not much more than $25.00 or so for an 18 by 36
inch unit 6 feet high with 5 shelves. clunky in the extreme, but
easy to put together with only a screwdriver
Hi all,
I think, hope, believe, it is fixed, I needed to remove the
rubber washer from the nut that goes onto the tail piece its
self. As there is a plastic flange insert there that is
compressed in the joint, I guess that seems to be enough of a
washer. Removing the rubber washer inside the nut
Hey Victor,
You got me again, well country of the blind by H.G. Wells didn't
sound like anywhere one would want to live either GRIN
This probably should belong on BLM now.
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Ralph,
On the other hand, what we want to show is that we do things, and
try to do things. Best would be to make them see us as much like
themselves, capable of messing up too.
when we, at Smith-kettlewell RERC, had a research project that
was really a training program to teach blind folks to
robert,
yeah ain't it a ball when we get to do something for them!
Quite often when sighted people hear our audibile devices they say
that would be neat, I could look at the work not at the meter.
why do phones have displays?
kidding of course
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david,
Glad nothing is changing!
Last thing we want is more bloody rules!
And max, discribing diagrams for some articles would be most
admirable, Our guys here hate to do it, and it is not at all
easy.
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Dale,
Yes, it's quite different, The threaded tail from the drain takes an inch
and a quarter slip nut and has a flange shaped plastic insert that is pushed
up against this tail by a small flange on
the top of a piece of smaller pipe with the afore mentioned slip joint nut
holding this all
robert,
There are some things a blind person can't do, like driving a car or flying
a plane without sighted help, but the rest
depend on the individual and his/herwillingness to go to extremes and/or learn
and experiment.
If you want to find out how blind folks solder electronics go to:
Hi Mickey,
Yep, I looked carefully at the tail piece and it is coroded solid, so if it
is leaking it's cause it has crack.
I'm going to put some compound or teflon tape on that thread
also to see if that stops it.
With the supplied washer in the slip joint nut, the nut
can't come up far enough
victor,
Of course you're correct, anybody can do, or try to do, anything they want.
it's the consequences you have to watch out for.
Maybe we have to say that there are a few things blind folks can't do as
well as most sighted folks can, most of the time, probably, depending,
etc. I once was
Dale,
Or you pull up on the collective when your stick comes up and bops you on the
chin. And if you're stick isn't vibrating and scraping
you're staying in the same place and not heading for
the control tower.
sounds like a blast.
Tom
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Dale,
thanks, I've done some of that and I believe the leak is comming
from the actual upper slip joint but will continue to paper over the problem.
GRIN
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Jim,
Hose is a good backup if nothing else works., thanks
As for new sinks, it's a rented house, darned if I'll buy one
for the landlord good folks even though they be.
Wouldn't need a sink I hope, at most new drain parts maybe.
Tom
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Hi Lary,
Nope, don't have a compresserk guess I could hook it to the gas lines
and have a look round with a match GRIN
I think it'd be pretty hard to get a good seal on the drain, inside the sink,
end.
Interesting thought
thanks
Tom
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Betsy,
They probably will if I ask, we have a personal policy of trying
to fix stuff our selves, that's why our rent is very cheap and
has remained so for nearly 35 years.
May have to ask for professional help if I can't figger it out.
Tom
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trouble,
Yes, of course, we all know all that, my unjustified complaint is
just derived from frustration with the sighted world, sometimes I let it
show in inappropriate ways.
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bill,
Yes, thanks, I now remember that gas companies still use a similar solution
to check for gas leaks.
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don,
In no way do I want there to be no forwards on the list.
I simply thought, from my own personal viewpoint, that some wer so visually
oreinted as to be of little use.
However I see that many like such and
therefore withdraw the objections I had, particularly as I
offended the researchers
All,
We found an automotive scann tool that interfaces between standard
vehicle diagnostic connector and a serial port on a windows
or dos computer.
Software appears to be free, opensource
We are going to buy one to see what we can make of it, but
I know others may be iterested.
Dale,
I believe the rubber gaskets in the new nuts are square in cross section,
but I'll check more carefully that could be it!
I don't see that the flanged end of the pipe looks distorted, but again,
i'll check carefully.
Since there is a plastic flange that fits inside the upper end of the
so I tried to clear a kitchen double sink drain with a
plunger,it's worked in the past, and noticed a couple days later
water all over the floor!
We had a large plastic drawer under the sink in the cupboard for
cleaning stuff, and that had filled up with drain water before
spilling over so we'd
Unless Ray has tried this product and is reccommending it from
personal experience, I think this inappropriate.
first, the remote's I've seen don't allow you to seperate the
rubber membrane from the board without violence.
Although cleaning it up, if you can get at it, may be fine, I
doubt the
Mickey,
thanks for all that, I'll do as suggested.
BTW, my cc:s to you are bouncing from your isp, some nonsense
about white space in the headers. I know it's an old dos client,
but never seen that before.
thanks
tom
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for this discription, it is
really interesting.
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Mickey,
You're an inspiration, much as I hate that word. GRIN
being a bit of a sailor, I knew what a spar is
so that's why I bought the stuff.
i also thought I'd dip the ends of the dowels in the can when
done cause it'd be hard to be sure the end grain was wel sealed.
Have you ever worked with
Mickdy,
They might be available as add-ons for drip irrrigation
systems, from the obvious home/garden places.
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Jewel,
sounds like one of those things they may do to make it easier on the
manufacturer, but not on the user.
However isn't there a bolt that tightens up the blade longwise which you
release to make everything less tense? Or did you allready loosen that?
Tom
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Steve,
I'm not sure there is a talking meat thermometer out there, but
Ann Morris has a modified visual unit with the glass removed and
pop rivets inserted around the edge of the scale every 20
degrees.
it is intended for checking baked stuff from the oven, so not
sure if it's appropriate for
I had to assure there were no extra characters etc.
then they both worked with LYNX the linux text browser.
Tom
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Lee,
don't kid your self, most sighted people wouldn't have the
slightest idea what goes out the chimney and wouldn't know what to do
about it if they did.
I doubt most wild fires are started by embers from proper
chimneys, more likely from lightning, cigaret buts, or campfires
left unattended or
larry,
There are clamp amp add ons for DMMs that can give you maybe a 10 to 1
increase in current capability.
I know Fluke makes them, but I see no reason why one wouldn't work with any
DMM.
If you want, I'll have our engineer research them when he gets back in
early october.
Unfortunately,
Yeah lee, I miss my dad's backyard fire place where we used
to burn scraps garden trimmings etc.
but as you say all the bloody plastic these days could strangle an oil
company executive!
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I know they're made these days and are very expensive.
I bought one back in the 1960s made by G.E. the washing system
lasted many years and finally died about 4 years ago.
the dryer kept blowing thermostats and I got tired of spending
over a hundred bucks to replace it and got a cheap used dryer
Gaads where do you folks live they havn't allowed trash burning
around these parts for more years than I can imagine.
Unless you don't have a good recycling program, what would you
want to burn that wouldn't be toxic?
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Lee,
Don't bother with the second floor apartment, your luck you'll
get blown away by a tornado. GRIN
sorry havn't found a good ref for the wheel chair ramps yet,
still checking.
Tom
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Lee,
the official government ada specifications site is probably that
of the Architecture and Transportation barriers compliance board:
http://www.atbcb.gov
I have a friend who is a chief building inspector in S.F. and
specializes in accessibility, I'll ask him for the best source
and get back to
victor,
If nothing comes up on the screen and nothing happens otherwise, only other
thing to try is a boot floppy or CDrom depending on what you have
If that doesn't work,you're fubar.
A continuity tester will be of no use and probably harm on any of those
connectors, even assuming you have the
victor,
It does strike me that a battery with a shorted cell might give similar
results.
I don't know if those things are supposed to run with the battery removed,
if you know for sure, you could try that, but there are
many reasons why that might not work even if the battery is the
problem.
Of
robert,
the trick with the stereo will work as long as you only
cut one wire and therese no way you can short the speaker
outputs of the stereo, some of the older amplifiers don't like
short circuits at all.
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robert,
It matters, perhaps not just the ground, but maybe all three.
If you have any kind of audible tester for wiring, then test it as it
is and duplicate the setup. Might not hurt to get the other two wires
backwards, but sure will be bad if you get the ground wrong place.
Tom
Hi Jewel,
for many years, starting in at least the 16thcentury or so, ice
was a pretty signifficant new england export.
It was cut from ponds and the like using huge 2 man saws and
stored in ice houses which were at least partially under
ground. They packed it in saw dust as an insulator.
It
Lary,
It's a rather older direct drive unit, and yes, it has rather a
wide footprint, but I think my system makes accuracy pretty
good, the Sandwich' guide is pretty long so that helps reduce
sideways torking.
I really havn't used it all that much since I
built it.
tom
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Aspertaim, in reasonable amounts it is not toxic to humans.
which says nothing about ants. There is a very old hoax article with fake
researcher's names and thelot about how poisonous it is, known hoax.
Just cause you see it on
Bill,
Several types of guides have been bilt just a board tacked alongside where the
saw will travel is the simplist.
I did one that runs along a piece of aluminum angle you screw dwon
to the waiste side of the material, and it fitted into
the fence slots of a skill saw.
If you want to see the
Getting sloppy in old age,
the guide article is, I think, actually, maybe, perhaps:
vol15no2.txt
using lynx browser I had to go to
ftp.ski.org
and drill down through the directories,
Pub
Rehab
Fowle
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Dale, Dale,
If you saw this lab, you'd never in life accuse me of being fastidious!/
Hmmm, I think the real meter standard is berilium or some such
Three digits of accuracy is nearly always enough.
and then there's the difference between accuracy and resolution,
just cause it seems to read to a
boop,
They're probably ground nesting yellow jackets.
or that's what they'd bee in this region.
I'd get professional help, they can be very aggressive, and, I believe
can cause problems for folks who are allergic to beas etc.
If that's what they are, they'll go for food of any kind, so do not,
I agree with Jay's observations, but don't see why conservative oil quantity
is required, with the fan's I've oiled I just flood the bloody thing.
I've kept an old box fan and a bathroom fan which won't take the
so-called replacement motor, for years that way
not perfect, and never as quiet as
It's so much simpler than that, you engineers, GRIN
a bad contact on the switch most likely.
Never seen a fan with a transformer, motors like 110 volts.
There may be modern fans with electronic speed controls, and that could be
a different kettle of oily fish.
Tom
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ron,
Very good detail, but I've seen motors put together with long rivvets,
and that would make taking them appart more than the fan would be worth.
Probably the older the fan the more likely it is to be repairable.
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Yeah, but can you imagine the 'pooper-scooper'
and baggies you'd need to carry around? GRIN
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Gaads Dan, you really want that deck don't you.
Sounds like Theresa is worth her weight ingold, or platinum or something.
Now I need a nap after reading all that work.
good going
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the pager vibrators can be had fromseveral sources, and they're
not hard to drive, we just gotta find out how to navigate and re:
previous post, that's hard.
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bob,
Very very interesting!
I'm going to pass this around where I work as we've got a hat
full of physiologists who may have opinions.
Might relate to ballance problems many of us have also.
but it doesn't solve the basic difficulty of sensing the location
and direction of travel.
BTW, Mike
robert,
Lots of time and research effort have been spent over the years
on methods of navigating like following a straight line etc. in
small ish spaces.
Not much usefull has come of it.
Audible beacons might work but you probably wouldn't hear them
over the blower unless you ran them at rock
Robert,
Our post office appears to be open on alternate wednesday
afternoons from one to one thirty when the moon is in the third
quarter.
Or something like that!
It is always always busy, not much better than the Motor Vehicles
Department.
Grins
Tom
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victor,
Great thinking! I couldn't imagine what could be going on but you
may have it.
tom
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, but most computer sound cards do.
Hope that provides some help.
Best
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robert,
No, that's no good, then you have to mow the bloody gravel and
you won't believe the noise and mess that makes particularly at
three o'clock in the morning when we all like to work.
Tom
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betsy,
I believe the NFB materials center has the tactile tape, they do
have the click and roto rules as well as micrometers.
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Obviously this task, as discribed here, is inaccessible to a
blind person.
I wonder if one might do one end at random, then, using a
continuity tester, match the wiring to another plug.
Bad idea I guess as any sighted person looking at the result
would see the colors were wrong.
I can imagine
the undesired turn onn with use of the phone or radios.
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Jewel,
Nope, I'm not convinced about any sledges at all, but am firmly
convinced that I'll plan to treat you very nicely should we ever meet. GRIN
Tom
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