I recently purchased a ProTape 16 from MaxiAids. I can't live without it, but it is also the most aggravating tool I own! It has five buttons on the side and touching any one of them turns the unit on. It stays on for about 10 or 15 seconds, then it tells you that it's going to turn off in five seconds, and then it turns off. The aggravating part about it is everytime I pick it up, I touch one of those buttons and it turns on. Everytime I set it down, if I don't lay it down the right way, it'll turn on. You can't put it in a toolbox because another tool laying on it wll turn it on, and it just plain drives me nuts! It needs to have an "off" switch to prevent accidently turning it on everytime you touch the darn thing. Even when you're using the tape, the buttons are constantly being touch and the unit is turning on accidently. That's it - I love it and I hate it!
Tom On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Robert Riddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does a blind person use a carpenter level? Isn't it a tool with a > bubble of water in it and when the bubble is even you know your piece is > straight? How can you tell if it's level when you can't see? Also, how good > is this talking tape measure I keep hearing about? How about electrical > boxes? How do you know where each circuit breaker is without flipping the > whole lot and seeing what it does? Like if the circuit breaker in the > kitchen trips, how do you know which breaker in the box is which? > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
