Re: [QUAD-L] What's the difference between tilt & recline?

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Id be miserable by 12 am if i couldn't recline. The recline mechanism can have a few glitches, but so can air conditioning on your car. The trouble with American made chairs is that they tend to use ten year old technology. This means you don't have to worry that the chair is to sophisticated. Talk to the people that fix the chairs if you can. These things aren't rocket science. In most cases, if they don't want you to open control boxes it is because it hides old style circuit boards and analog potentiometers. The up side to this "junk" is that if it should fail, you can get it fixed. I have seen electro-mechanical actuators for this wheelchair being sold as a servo for a satellite antenna on ebay.   john   In a message dated 7/6/2005 9:01:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tilt- in the Tilt-n-space system Quickie uses, your body tilts in the sitting position but doesn't recline (which means the back going down). Recline adaptions can really increase size and weight a lot, the tilt in space is only 2" taller, no wider, and doesn't add a lot of weight. Typicaly if you don't need recline, don't get it, your chair will likely spend less time in the repair shop. Recliners have more wires, motors, and moving parts. Stunt > > > Please inform me of the difference between tilt & recline. What are the pro's > & con's of each or both? Remember I have Medicaid. >   What are some questions I should be asking my seating guy who is going to > be fitting me and selling me a power chair? What should he know or not know? >    Bobbie > > -- Freedom: United States Constitution© 1791 All Rights Preserved My first Domain http://nw-in.com/index.html http://quads.nw-in.com/quad-enter.html Pics http://quads.nw-in.com/quad-list/quad-list1.htm Home page. http://tnthompson0.tripod.com/homeincyberspace/ Computer Graphics portfolio. http://tnthompson1.tripod.com/index.htm