Dear Betsy, Thanks very much! My address is:
Bill Benson 612 Francis Place St. Louis, MO 63105 Free matter is great. Thanks again. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Betsy Whitney To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:55 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] tough braillable materials? Aloha Bill, I have enough to send some to both of you. What is your mailing address? And, since the material has braille on it, and I assume that we are both blind, may I send it Free Matter? Betsy At 03:30 PM 10/7/2009, you wrote: > > >Dear Betsy, > >If Matt does not want these, I would love to have them. > >Bill Benson >e-mail: <mailto:billben%40sbcglobal.net>[email protected] >----- Original Message ----- >From: Betsy Whitney >To: blindhandyman-yahoogroups.com >Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:28 AM >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] tough braillable materials? > >Aloha Matt, >They still make braillables which are those sticky backed sheets, but >when the backing is removed, they aren't as durable as the thin >thermoform paper. However, I do have some heavy clear plastic >material that I use to make covers for the documents that my company >produces. I buy them from a company called >Southwest Plastics, but if all you want is 25 or so of them, I have >some that have 1 line of braille on them that were errors. They >measure 8-1/2 by 11, or 9 by 11. >They are all 19 hole punched along one long side. I use a paper >cutter to make 3 by 5 and 4 by 6 cards for addresses and the like >that I really want to keep, but I have more than I need. >I use a good-old-fashioned braille writer to braille them. >Betsy > >At 04:14 AM 10/7/2009, you wrote: > > > >What is out there which we can stick in an old perkin's brailler and > >achieve a tough, durable copy of something? > >I was thinking of brailling out measurements and stuff for things I > >make and storing them out in my shop to refer too? > >Thermoform paper rips too easy for my liking. > >Do they still have the old sticky plastic paper, which used to come > >in sheets with plastic backing? > >Where can I get something good which will last? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Matt > > > >[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] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
