hello aishwarya I face the same problem with the chord and I keep changing the chord whenever it wears out your idea of a elastic velcro sounds good I will try it
On 4/1/19, Aishwarya Pillai <aishwarya3...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am a user of a white cane since 6 years. I am not much into the > advanced canes that are coming up in the market these days. Although > the white cane perfectly fits my need, one problem i have is the the > elasticity of the chord wears out. This is not the chord that runs > from within the cane, but the one with which one holds the cane > together after it's folded and also wear it around their wrist while > they are walking. after few months, the wornout chord sometimes can > get tangled with the cane foldings and that makes it difficult to open > it. so i came up with an idea of using velcro instead of the chord. I > took help from a designer to fix one end of the velcro tape to the > cane using a nut and a bolt. the other end of the tape can be > fastened as per our use (holding the cane while it's folded and > wearing it around our wrist). The length of the tape could > approximately be 25 cm. It seems the life span of nylon velcro is > 10,000 times, so if i use my cane on an average of 20 times per day, > it will come up to 7500 times per year. Right now, i am testing it > out to see how durable and long lasting it will be. > I am writing this mail to know if anyone of you face the same problem > with the chord or not. how do you manage if the chord wears out? and > what do you think of the velcro tag. I will be curious to know your > opinion. > > With regards, > Aishwarya. > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > -- Dr. Manohar S. Vaswani Assistant Professor, Department of English Shivaji University, Kolhapur Cell: 09404825544 Office: 0231-2609189 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
