Holy cow! It is my old roommate Ed. ----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Przybylek To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:13 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Tape Measures and other tools
Hi David, When it comes to cutting a piece of PVC with a hacksaw, I've never been able to make a cut that even comes close to being perpendicular to the side of the pipe. When I took on a major plumbing job in my home a few months back, I decided I needed to come up with a method that worked before I cut any of the lines in my house. What I came up with was putting two hose clamps around the pipe, sliding them close together and then cutting the pipe with the hacksaw blade guided down between the two clamps. The clamps made it pretty easy to cut down between the metal bands and get a really nice cut perpendicular to the pipe. I passed this idea on to the group just in case there are any other neophytes to plumbing on the list. Everyone on the list passes on ideas like this and I think we're all better because of it. This is one of those examples I talked about in which the task required a custom solution which, in this case, turned out to be the hose clamps. Take care, Ed -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W Wood Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Tape Measures and other tools I go along with your thoughts and those of others. BTW: what is this idea for guiding a hack saw blade? David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Przybylek Sent: 25 November 2007 17:10 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Tape Measures and other tools Hi Larry, I'm not really in favor of a separate list dealing with adapted/adaptable tools. Most folks on this list already contribute their ideas for adapting tools and tools they've purchased that were usable right off the shelf. There've also been many ideas for accomplishing difficult jobs without sight using things around the house that aren't meant to be used for that purpose (two hose clamps around a PVC pipe to provide a guide for a hacksaw). Discussion of useful tools usually begins with questions about how to accomplish a particular task. I'm not sure you'll get a great deal of discussion about tools without previous discussions of tasks and how to accomplish them. Take care, Ed _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Stansifer Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Tape Measures and other tools One of the core subjects on this list seem to be tools and how blind user friendly they are. I come from a profession where I was forced to either modify existing tools or in some cases scratch build something that would allow me to work competitively. The thought crossed my mind, why couldn't we create a tool-crib list where these ideas, modifications and creations could be show cased apart from all of the non-tool related posts. We would have an opportunity to discuss what does and doesn't work, how we could make it better, how we could build it and repair techniques on the crap that the retail market would like to sell us. The forum would be limited to creating, modifying and tools that are off the shelf accessible. For example, I know that if we all put our virtual heads together we could come up with an accurate, effective tape measure that doesn't cost a hundred bucks and that we need to send back across the big puddle to have it serviced. Or what about a bullet proof dead on saw guide that doesn't take all afternoon to set up every time you want to rip a sheet of plywood. Or a pipe cutting guide attached to a saws-all that will insure a strait even cut the next time you need to cut large diameter pipe. 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