Yes, I thought of that and may even do it myself if I can find a suitable pin. Trouble is that I don't have convenient access to a jeweler here, the nearest is Timmins and I think there isn't a shop with a jeweler in-house there, but more significantly, it is a little better than an hour to drive and I don't drive, I pretty well only ever go there to the airport.
When I do next visit a city I'll try to remember to bring it along with me I will be in North Bay at the end of September but mostly in an hotel for a convention so that won't be an opportunity. I tried squashing the pin to form a flat spot which, i thought might grab. I figured then if I made a second one at 90 degrees to the original then even if the pin spun at least one would engage the lip but alas, all I managed to do was ruin the warrantee. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Rizzino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Source for Braille watch (with alarm) > Dale, > I am not familiar with the watch you mentioned but thought I would tell > you > about a possible repair. I have had watches that open at the six o'clock > position and like you said "sort of pin type roller to hold the lid shut". > The watches that I have actually use a watch band pin as the latch. Maybe > a > Jeweler could replace or modify the pin that is there so it will latch > better. This has worked for me in the past. > Art > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 12:34 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Source for Braille watch (with alarm) > > >> I have been cruising the >> Web looking for a braille watch, preferably with alarm. >> >> I had one from the CNIB several years ago which failed early on, a Seiko. >> >> While on holiday my watch quit so I bought a new one in Calgary, has a > sort of pin type roller to hold the lid shut but it doesn't. Every time I > tear off a sheet of paper towel it flips open, every fast movement flips > it > open and I seem to be swinging my left arm around a lot, certainly a lot > more than ever I realized. >> >> At the time I bought it I noticed that the lid rattled and I remarked on > it, the woman in the Calgary store brought out another which rattled too > so > I decided it to be a feature rather than a deficiency in design. >> >> It may be that there is no longer an alarm watch in braille, certainly > CNIB doesn't sell any. A google search delivers several results but they > all > seem to offer talking watches. >> >> This is not really a "fixit" question however there are a couple of > hundred blind people on this list which spreads the net fairly wide. >> >> Thanks for your indulgence. >> >> >> Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Skype DaleLeavens >> Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> To listen to the show archives go to link >> http://acbradio.org/handyman.html >> or >> ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ >> >> The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >> http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday >> >> The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. >> http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml >> >> Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ >> Visit the new archives page at the following address >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Yahoo! 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