Please excuse my ignorence here, but is the extension absolutely necessary? I imagine it is, but is it more to just keep your location nailed down and a way to use smaller measurement indicators? Would it be possible to take a tape and just simply tactually mark it every 1/16 inch, sort of like the typical braille rulers? I had one of the braille tapes a while ago, but can't recall how you used it exactly. There may be a physical reason why a tape couldn't be made and more likely the size of the case as the embossed area increased means a larger case would be required. Don't know, just some thoughts and comments.
On Nov 28, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Larry Stansifer wrote: > Jim, > > The goal that Bob and I have is to develop something with far more > resolution and dead on repeatability. > I like the idea of a spring loaded Detent rather than a locking pin. > I can't > see anyway to get away from the case extension but it certainly > doesn't need > to be 6" long and it needs to be more robust. > Once I get the end of year and Christmas crap behind me I am going > to go > spend the afternoon in a friend's machine shop with everybody's > ideas and we > will see what develops. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] > ] > On Behalf Of cheetah > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] a couple of measuring tools > > bob what that tape needs is a little detent put in the middle of the > tape every 6 inches that a spring loaded ball would snap into as you > pull it out so it would land in the same place every time. > jim > At 07:23 PM 11/27/2007, you wrote: > > >That's the tape we've all complained about for accuracy. Larry and I > >are working on a couple ideas we have for improving that model. > >We'll share more once we've made some progress. > > 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 > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following > address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy > Man list > just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > -- > BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 140859852) is spam: > Spam: > https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=140859852&m=0838aced641a&c=s > Not spam: > https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=140859852&m=0838aced641a&c=n > Forget vote: > https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=140859852&m=0838aced641a&c=f > ------------------------------------------------------ > END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS > > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
