Ron, Been their, done that Depending on your dial indicator and the resolution you need to achieve you may find yourself needing to extend the pointer, increase the diameter of the face and then add the tactile marks to reflect the indicated reading. I had an old school tool and die maker friend do mine. It lives in a custom fitted foam lined metal box and only comes out for race motors.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Yearns Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New and questions about an oil gage Well I heard about some success in reading dial analog gages by removing the glass or plastic lens and having a sighted person put tactile marks where you needed them.. I havenent tried it on my dial indicator, but am planning to do so. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Monitor To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New and questions about an oil gage HI, I was wondering if there was some kind of gage that us blind guys could use to read a propane gas tank??? THANKS ROB FROM MINNESOTA P.S. I'M TALKING A BIG 500 GALLON TYPE TANK----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New and questions about an oil gage Tom, I didn't forget about you. He just wants to make a suggestion to possibly look into it. He is afraid of the cost factor. They are just trying to break into the market and the unit is I think $105. If he calls me back I will have him contact you. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Fowle To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New and questions about an oil gage If the engineer wants practical suggestions about building in speech, I'd be happey to help, please don't hesitate to provide him with my contact info, this is what I am supposed to do for a living. Tom Fowle Embedded Systems Developer/ Rehab engineer Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute 2318 Fillmore St. San Francisco, CA 94115 415-345-2123 (Voice) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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 Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.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 155913838) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=155913838&m=ab626baa1984&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=155913838&m=ab626baa1984&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=155913838&m=ab626baa1984&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
