last blockage had here was a large wash cloth. If I had a reducing piece
to take the shop vac down to 1 inch I'd have gotten it with that. couldn't
get past the bend with the wider standard hose though.
I got that from someone here.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, rs_denis wrote:
plumbers helper
Hi,
this can be a terriblly
--- thilfy job. there is no getting round the fact that if a professional
toilet plunger is not working and particularly a snake, you may have a serious
problem. Do not try and use a sink plunger to unblock a toilet, it will not
work. A proper toilet plunger has
Oh really? just the powdered stuff? Way_cool, I wonder what other
pests this stuff would work against. I sort of like the idea.
On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Jimmy Podsim wrote:
One thing that will work to some extent is tide. Sprinkle tide
around the house and fences and any outdoor
Geez, I never really paid much attention to crickets. We used to get
those oh think they call them camelback crickets now and then and
those are what my wife calls the hopping bugs. I mean those little
suckers can really jump. Thanks for sharing the info, I simply had no
idea they could
Just finishing breakfast. It is 25 degrees out there with frost on the grass
and on cars and rooftops. They forecast that it should be sunny and go up to 50
degrees today, as high as 54 degrees tomorrow.
We should be on the first plane in four hours, arrive in Houston at ten to six
your time,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this problem get unclogged?
_
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Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 3:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] toilett
Hi,
this can be
Hi all,
Well most of my bath tubb delimma is fixed. I got this really good cleaner
from online. called Stain-Out it's expensive with shipping it was about 30 for
3oz but works really well
There are 2 spots left that are small I don't know how bad they look as soon
as I can I am going
I'm with the Save the Cricket Foundation and I say, leave the poor fellow
alone!
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Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:20 AM
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Just need some clarification here.
The person who wrote this article claimed that crickets can eat through
walls.
Uhm, I'm assuming they're talking about walls that are composed of siding?
I doubt a cricket could do much damage on a wall made of brick. Granted, if
the brick work has several
On the BHM show this week, Tom reads us some list mail. We talk with a guy we
have talked with before, in up state new-York, Walter Gramza, we talk a bit
about pianos, what's going on with Walter. and the things he has been up to in
the last couple of years.
On the BLM show Phil talks
well get some eyes there and try to find a can of rustolium spray paint
mask the area around the stains and paint then sand a bit.
I mean hell your selling the place.
Jim
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While framing out the deck and landings, I kept wishing for a jig that I
could slide over the rim joist. It would have a 1.5 inch wide slot on one
side that would go over the perpendicular joist,and a quarter or half inch
slot on the rim joist side that would be exactly in the middle. You
Dan, yu have scored well. I'd suggest after a trial run that you
and those who were involved in the welding, etc. patent that item and
in a period of time we can buy one at Lowes or other big stores.
thanks.Lee
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008
at 10:39:36AM -0400, Dan Rossi wrote:
While framing
Before doing anything else, Get a good car wax/cleaner and see what that does.
I take it, we are talking about a vinyl tub? I use McGuire wax cleaner.
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Yeah this is true, however, if you lived here in Texas where I do and at night
you go out and can't even see the ground because it's covered in Crickets, I
don't think it'll hurt to get rid of a few. That is unless somebody wants me
to box them up and mail them to them.
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Yeah and the neat thing about tide is that it won't hurt you. One year we had
them so bad that I went around on the inside of the house and put tide all
around all the base boards in the house. Besides helping with the crickets, it
made the house smell good.
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Oh yeah, I forgot and yes the powdered stuff.
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I'm not so sure they can eat through walls, but I do know that if there is
any cracks in the wall they will get through them.
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I do know that crickets make good bate for trout and bass fishing. The
logical thing to do is to set a trap for the critter and then one would have
the choice of catching a lunker with it, or taking it to the great out of
doors, where it can fend for itself.
Yours
Hi Victor and all,
Here's another good site for information about crickets invading inside the
home:
http://tinyurl.com/5dvatt
Gary
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Hey, Dan, I need one of those! Sounds like a marketable tool to me,
especially if you could keep the cost under, say, $20.
An improvement for the next prototype could also be a detachable, adjustable
arm with a similar 1-5/8 in. socket on one end that could be used for, say,
framing walls
I had the same idea of adding an arm to the jig so you could easily index
the spacing of joists. I'll have to tinker with designs for making that
cheaply, easily, and without making the over-all jig cumbersome.
I don't really know if it would be marketable to the sighted population
though.
Why not use rechargeable batteries n the beepers?
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From: Chanting
Hi All,
Just a little update for all that are coming to the gathering next weekend...
As ya know, Blind Mice Mart will be throwing a party Friday night
for Blind Rifle Association Members!
If you have a Blind Rifle hat or shirt, wear it!
If you have a Too Much Sex Causes Blindness, wear it!
If
Joe,
Wouldn't a few inexpensive radios be a bit more enjoyable, rather than
listening to insessant beeping?
You could also investigate wireless speakers. But they are a bit spendy.
You can just foam pad the corners and run into them. *GRIN*
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon
Aloha,
This is a question about smoke alarms that are hardwired with battery
backup. The house belongs to my friend and the wiring was redone
about a year and a half ago, to bring it up to code.
Are these alarms generally wired in such a way that if one of the
batteries gets low, all of the
Joe,
If this is going to be a temporary solution, why not run a single line
around the inside perimeter about 6 in from the fence and at a comfortable
hand height?
It will even work when the batteries are dead or the power is off.
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i usually change my batteries for my smoke alarms each year during when i
set the clocks ahead for daylight savings time and i will replace the
batteries in november when i have to set the clocks back for the winter. I
replace them all to be sure i got all of them.
_
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Lenny,
Sounds like the more appropriate question is, has anyone ever picked a
lock. Have you tried a bit of breaking and entering? Check the easy to
get to windows and doors?
--
Blue skies.
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Carnegie Mellon University.
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Keep in mind Dan that there are sighted folks with different
disabilities that very well might get use out of your newly designed
tool. Now that extended arm you are speaking of. how about something
that can be attached say by a wing nut and bolt? Lee
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LOL! get an invisible fence and put your collor on and then it'll shock you
when you run out of the fence line. Hehheheheheheahha. JK.
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hi joe and everyone else
heres a link to a place that sells the beeping box
about $6.95 i think
you can listen to what it sounds like too.
they also have other fun things.
jim
https://www.braillebookstore.com/view.php?T=BeeperBox
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Well, guys. try this on for an idea. Sighted ppl have motion lights to guide
them at night, some of these are even solar. There's a lot of smart ppl on
this list, why don't we invent a Solar beeper that is motion sincored.
Just think of this. Your working in the back yard and you want to
The one beeper device I found takes those flat, wristwatch type batteries
(can't remember the name of them right now). Same type that go into my blood
glucose meter, about the size of a quarter? Woman on the phone says they're
non-rechargeable, which is why I'd like to find something that would
The wife suggested one of those invisible fences and the dog collar, but I
think I prefer the foam padded posts. :)
Yesterday, I spoke to the customer service reps at Crutchfield, which has
always been very good. My bottom of the barrel price for the wireless
speakers would be a couple of
It's a temporary consideration. I've wanted to stay away from having to keep
reaching out because it feels uncomfortable doing that, but it might be the
cheapest option. Only drawback is that I've also put a soccer net up in the
yard, which we keep by the fence on one side, and I bought one of
I just replied and said my wife suggested that very thing! I'd be toast by
the end of the first half mile, though...
Maybe I should get four smoke alarms and a couple briquets of charcoal, I
can get smoke alarms on sale two for $12.99 *with* the 9 volt!
Best,
Joe Monks
Every day you haven't
Hmnnn, that's an interesting possibility. The yard is situated so that I
have a decent enough amount of space along the shorter two sides to make the
sound issue moot, and especially along the lengthier sides, I wouldn't have
too much sound crossover. I think what I keep winding up with is the
I'll take four. ;)
Best,
Joe Monks
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You know, this has gotten my brain going though. So here's my thought.
As a ham radio operator we do what's called a fox hunt and this is where the
idea came from. I think these things could be made cheaply with some small
project boxes. If you could get a ham to build a small transmitter
Wow! now that electric fence would be way worse than the invisible fence.
hehehehehehaha.
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Cheetah, thanks so much. This is *exactly* the kind of thing I'd been hoping
to find. I'm going to order four of these and try them out. For $30, this is
a fraction of the cost of other solutions I'd been considering, and if it
works, even if only until I can rig my yard for sound (not a
Cheetah just saved me some bucks (and some work!), but I like the idea of
buying some of these gizmos and getting beeper/buzzer and maybe other sounds
out of them. Maybe for next Halloween...
Best,
Joe Monks
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Okay, you two guys *don't* talk to my wife. ;)
Best,
Joe Monks
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I think it would be especially nice if instead of an electronic beeper buzzing
sound they put off some noise from nature. Perhaps a bird call or a frog. A
rattler might be entertaining, but perhaps not very practical. :)
Jennifer
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