Have a couple locking tape measures, and I've had sighted people file knotches in them at the inch marks on one side and at the foot marks on the other. It's true you can't read the thing accurately enough to set up a cut, but for other stuff like furniture positioning they work pretty well.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan & Terrie Robbins Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 06:55 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device: I like all your ideas and they seem pretty plausible. I am still sticking with an old (non talking) tape measure with a good locking mechanism. I use my talking one when I actually need to measure but many times I only need to accurately measure length or distance between and then set the item up on my saw. I find the old good locking tape measure works well for me. Al -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Tom Vos Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:19 PM To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device: Not necessary, but one will keep the dowel from sliding all the way out. The other keeps it from sliding all the way in, and provides a mounting for whatever kind of end you put on it I put a matching piece of pvc on mine, but someone had a good suggestion about putting a small square block on that end, so it wouldn't roll around. I might do that yet to mine. Blessings, Tom -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:45 AM To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device: It is not necessary to have full round ends either is it? ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Fowle To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device: tom, I don't think you could do much with a plane, the plane needs long spaces ahead of and behind it so you'd maybe just be able to make a curved dent in the middle. You might drill holes off center along the dowell and finish them off with a flat chisel or a scroll saw, but it'd be the devil of a lot of work to get a smooth cut. Actually if you plained down an entire dowell having first cut off an inch length, then cut that 1 inch piece down the center and glued each half on the new flats at either end of the dowel, that might do it. still a lot of work obviously the table saw or router would be the real way to go Hmmm, wonder if you could buy an appropriate chunk of "Half Round" and cut 1 inch chunks off, glue them flat to flat, on the ends of the half round. There are always a lot of different ways to do most things, but I think yours is the simplest if you have the table saw and skill. What i can't figure is how you kept the dowel moving straight and just took off a small amount each cut guess you could set up a rip fence and move it each cut but that too is too much fuss. tom Fowle [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]
