Dale, These set up blocks sound interesting and very useful. Any big box stores handle such things or do you have an on line vendor. Were these developed for blind folks or sighted individuals and we've just found a good use for them? Approximate cost for a set?
thanks Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Alining a saw blade when ripping You might like to investigate set-up blocks. They are available several places. One common set has a metal block 1 by 2 by 3 inches, a series of half inch by 3/4ths, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16. This is somewhat limiting but you could cut yourself some hardwood blocks say 4 6 and 12 inches or what ever else all to be used in combination. I did a lot of work with a folding boxwood carpenters ruler with tacks installed to make tactile dots, 24 inch, 36 inch and 1 meter used to be available from RNIB and other vendors. These aren't necessarily easy to use, blind parallax is way worse than sighted but with practice one can get pretty Goode. For us, the cost of such devices is really a disadvantage. I have seen 24 inch folding carpenters rulers in our hardware store for under three dollars while paying over thirty dollars for a marked braille one otherwise exactly identical. ----- Original Message ----- From: Agent086b To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Alining a saw blade when ripping Thanks for all this info. Only problem I have I can not purchase a rotomatic in Australia. I have tried the NFB or something in the US, but they have not replied to my email. So I only have my talking tape measure with all it's querks. Max. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Alining a saw blade when ripping From: john schwery <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 5 December 2009 12:25:06 > With my rotomatic, I have no trouble at all. I > put one end against the fence and align the blade > with the fence on the rotomatic. > > earlier, Agent086b, wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> the earlier question and answers got me thinking. When ripping I find it >> hard to measure from the fence to the saw blade accurately. >> What wonderful answers can we get to this one. >> Thanks as always for the help. >> Max. >> > > John > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [email protected] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: > [email protected]! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
