Hello Paul, and welcome to the list. You will see lots of great tips come across the list, over time. Good job fixing monitor. Talk later. Don
----- Original Message ----- From: Paul To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:56 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Re: surprising question Hi all Just joined the list recently, and finding many of the conversations quite interesting. I've heard many many stories of people blind and fully sighted alike being treated poorly by sales people. I can honestly say that I have not really had too many of those experiences, in fact, I seem to find the sales people more helpful if I happen to be alone and using my cane. The only things I've really done, or been allowed to do (since I am one of these cotton wrapped people), are put kits together (shelves, chairs, etc), and put a much better screw into my computer monitor stand, probably voiding the warranty. LOL In terms of putting the screw into my monitor stand, I just took what I'm sure was a worn screw to the hardware store and asked for a similar screw. While the original screw was supposed to just hold the stand up by friction alone, the screw I bought I actually screwed into the stand. The stand hasn't fallen since. I only own a small, very small, number of tools, that alone I've found useful. I have a ratchet screw driver with the interchangeable heads, side cutters, and a pair of plyers. Out of those, I find my side cutters the most useful. I don't really have that much room to buy the big stuff for rough carpentry, but it still interests me. Thanks Paul [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
