Lenny: Sounds like your lady is a very special person. Her patience must be boundless.
I'm like you. I want the scales on my equipment to read true. Although there are just a few people I will allow to use my tools, I what them to function as they should. I have a wood worker friend of mine come over and set the scales when ever I get a new piece of equipment set up. It is not only possible but easy for a blind person to properly align and or square up all wood working tools in his shop. With a few jigs and measuring tools, you can have your tablesaw cutting straight and true. or your jointer making flat and true edges. Some useful tools I use are: rotomatic, machinests square, set of feeler guages, Grizzly g9799 space block set, straight edge. I also recently was fortunate enough to obtain a digital indicator with a talkman speech module. Although very expensive, this tool allows a blind person to do a setup or alignment with up to 10 thousandth of an ench accuracy. These tools are my bench mark tools. Other than my rotomatic, they stay safely put away until it is time to do a setup. With a magnetic base and a digital indicator, most all set up tasks can be achieved. Just for grins, when I first got it, I checked the run out on all my tools. I think I stayed up most of the night measuring stuff. I know this is not directly related to Lenny's observations; but, his note made me think about tool set up for a blind person. I will be happy to write an article on tool setup or give a list of tools/make/models of the measuring tools I use. I think most folks on this list can easily adapt setup instructions manufactures provide though. Terry On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:02:38 -0400you write: >Well, I have a laser guided compound sliding miter saw. Obviously, the laser >is useless to me. >The other day we were in a hurry to cut and glue something so we could leave >for a few hours. To save time I had Karen align up the saw with the laser >for a quick cut. After the cut was made it was almost 3/8 inches too long. I >rechecked my measurement then checked the cut piece and it was too long. I >had Karen again set up the cut for me with the laser and again it was too >long. Now got some scrap wood and made marks for more test cuts again >everything was incorrect. I went back to using my way of setting up for a >cut and it was perfect. >Later I had my son-in-law look at the saw. He and Karen spent about an hour >trying to align the laser beam. Now it is on an angle across the board. I >have a few projects this summer that must be completed. I think I will then >have Sears send the saw back for correct alignment. I have a 5 year >warranty on the unit. >I have this problem that if something is not correct it really bothers me. >Even though I can not use that feature, I am bothered that it is not >available for someone else to use. >What really bothered me was that I wasted more time having Karen helping >than if I just would have done it myself. >--- >Please visit my home page; it is motivational, inspirational and humorous >with many resources for the blind. >http://www.LennyMcHugh.com
