that's what bush needs to make part of his medicare cost reduction, finding usable medical equiptment on the side of the road! " hey, was that a wheelchair on the off ramp? turn the van around and go back and pick it up. we just saved medicare $9k!"
-dave headman c4-26yrs post
From: dave oconnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Question about roho seat cusions Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:14:03 -0700 (PDT)
I have used bei-beis and rohos since '67 I really loved the bei-bei because it was comfortable and pretty cheap a 35$. trouble is, it sprung leaks pretty easily. they were made by vulcanizing 2 pieces of rubber together face to face and then inflating. i patched them lots with standard bicycle tire patches. that worked great but about a year was all i could ever get out of them. to find the leaks, you fill up too hard with air and stick them under water. i use a roho now that i found along the freeway about 15 years ago. i leave it partally inflated as i need only about 2 inches of cushion and it is a 4 inch. the low pressure developed by only what my too wide butt puts on it is about 16 x 18 ( 288 )divided by 225 pounds or just under 1 lb per sq inch. never a pressuire problem - well 1 or 2, and no leeks yet. lucky i guess. a good rubber cement with a patch is what i'd use if needed. autozone has some 3m weatherstripping cement they lovingly call 'gorilla snot'. i use that stuff everywhere. best of luck. dave
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been on my roho wheelchair seat cushion > about 3 years. Do any other > Roho users know if they need to be rotated.. or do > you just keep them in the > same position always ? I began to notice mine was a > bit low and even when we > filled it up more it seemed to sit a bit > different.......now last 2 days it > has lost air, I don't see any way it could be > punctured unless my wife is not > tightening the valve enough. > Alway's seem to have some quad related problems > LOL , thanks for any that > may know ! > > > ( > Dan) >
Dave (what's a quad?)
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