How do you test for a gas leak my friend? I've watch plumbers rub soap on the connections and look for bubbles. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "martin webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:59 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] do you really want to be a plumber?
> Hi, > I think the answer to this question is yes and know. Plumbers work on > many different > sites and in many different locations in one week, and this you would have > a problem > with as a totally blind individual. I do much work for family and good > friends, and the kind of work I do is plumb > in washing machines, dish washers, move radiators, move sinks, install > outside taps, > and much more. You could certainly learn to master many of the techniques > involved > in plumbing even soldering won't be a problem if you feel you can cope > with it. > There are different levels of training for this profession and not all > plumbers take > them all, for instance if you want to train to install and maintain gas > appliances > such as fires, boilers, kilns and spa systems, then that's a different > level of > training again. I do all the maintance myself On my own combination > theating and > hot water system, and then pay to have it gas tested after woulds. I all > so have a carbonmonoxcide detector installed near the appliance. Safety > is Paramount when dealing with gas. I have never > had a problem though working in this way, and feel totally comfortable > doing this type of > work as a totally blind man. Again, with soldering I have know problems, > I use a > T500 turbo torch which burns butane, propane, or mapp gas depending on > what I'm doing. > Just use really good turbo mats and I mean really good ones and you will > be fine. All so remember to totally purge any gas pipe work that you are > about to solder, I kid you not. > Again I feel very comfortable with this kind of work and tooling, and I > cannot stress this > enough. If your not comfortable with any of this forget the whole thing. > I do own a water filled manometer, which my sighted girl friend reads to > me, and this I use for checking gas pressures. The talking multimeter > from > Germany > can check pressures, but I don't know how useful it would be for this type > of work. > I've never examined one so I couldn't say. So to sum all this up, you > could learn to do the work in an environment you new, and to a very high > standard too, but I think not in the real world. Hope this helps a > little. > Regards. > Martin Webster. > From the UK. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > ------------------------------------ > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > 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] Groups Links > > > >
