Is graphite the same as carbon fiber?
I bought two carbon fiber, two piece folding canes from NFB last Fall.
They're great! The two halves are connected by an alastic cord but
they're still very light and strong. I could even lean on them if needed or
use them as a weapon.
Dale! My initial inquiry as to this meter was prompted by a person in
England. Would you bring him one too?
Aren't you in Canada? Doesn't it cost a lot for this company to ship to
Canada? When I ship internationally I use the United States mail service.
It's a lot less expensive
I know we were discussing multi-meters here a few weeks ago.
Can you refresh my memory? What's available? As I recall there are
two or three popular prospects for talking multi-meters these days.
Thanks.
Jerry
I have a 100 pound Propane tank outside the house. I have three
Propane appliances that run off that tank. They are an ordinary cook stove,
an ordinary double oven, and a Propane space heater.
The stove and oven burn perfectly cleanly, no smell, nothing, just
heat. The space heater
Thanks for the responses.
Well Bob, lost the rest of my sight almost forty years ago now.
We don't want to break up the ice on the lake. This month we have car
races on the lake. Next month we have one of the biggest ice fishing derbies in
the Northeast. A frozen lake is a great
I have a 100 pound propane tank here in Northern New York. I use it for
some heat and the stove. The local gas provider owns it but it lives at my
house. They come to fill it whenever I order gas, about once a year. They
have a truck with a long hose.
Jerry
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I'm considering using Carbon Fiber to make some model boats and
airplanes. I've been advised to experiment with Fiber Glass first because
the techniques are similar but Carbon Fiber is considerably more expensive
than Fiber Glass. Have you had luck working with either.
Jerry
My friend uses an invisible fence. The dog wears a special collar and if
he goes to far away from the base unit he gets a shock. My friend says it
doesn't hurt him, just enough to tell him to go back the other way.
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I've had trouble with the Sun before. I would just wait a couple of hours
until the Sun was in a different position and the door would work fine.
Jerry
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The Aldi newsletter says:
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Tom, you've seen outlet dividers that you plug into a power outlet on the
wall and it provides you with two or three outlets? This device is just like
that except it provides power only while it is activated while the phone is
ringing. It has a telephone cord attached to it. You plug it
Ed, you can also get a telephone activated power outlet from Radio Shack
for I think about $15. I think it's designed to activate a light when the
phone rings for deaf people. Plug it into the wall and plug it's phone cord
into the phone outlet. Now connect some audio device to one of
This sounds like the Braille compass I have but I much prefer my talking
compass. I've had it now for fourteen years. Just point it and push the
button. It's very accurate, instantaneous, and easy to use when the winds
blowing and it's 10 below. I don't use it often but it has gotten
Claudia! You don't need any sort of special docking station. Any
computer speakers should work directly off your Zenstones. Instead of plugging
the speakers into a computer, plug them into the Zenstone.
Jerry
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Do you have a recommendation for a car battery booster? I've used the
kind that you charge up from the wall outlet and connect to the car's
battery. I know there are some that plug into the cigarette lighter but I'm
under the impression that they take up to a half hour to work.
Do you
Edmund Scientific has an electronic gadget for hiking. Amongst the many
functions it has is a mosquito repeller. Do these things really work. How
about Ridex?
Jerry
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There was a show on television a few days ago where they showed a few
examples of silos exploding. This isn't due to spontaneous combustion however.
There gets to be too much fine cereal powder in the air. The only thing
needed is a spark. For a few years my cloths dryer vented into my
I should think you could get rubber boots at any place that sells shoes.
I bought an eighteen inch or so high pair of boots a few years ago at the local
department store for $5.00.
Jerry
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I just bought a nice one. It's made of wood but the wood has a hard
plastic, paint, enamel, whatever hard finish. Easy to wipe clean. I think I
paid $17.00.
Jerry
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What do you recommend for a talking tire pressure gauge?
Thanks.
Jerry
This happened recently with my brothers 2006 Chevy truck. He works as a
mechanic in a prison so he had to start using a locking gas cap. He thinks the
light came on with that. GM says the problem is a vent in the gas tank. Until
he gets to the dealer for a repair he uses a regular
Well the dealer invited us to take a test drive to experience how smooth
the ride would be. He rode with us. The ride was not smooth at all. It was
almost like riding on a corduroy road. He diagnosed the problem. He said that
they had just experienced the same problem with a brand new
I have to point out that the dealer specifically said the problem was with
the tires and not the wheels. The only reason they gave me new wheels was to
save time as I had to be going in order to get home by dark. You know how much
difficulty us blind people have driving in the dark.
That's right. Just add them up.
Jerry
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I know of no reason that Skype wouldn't work with dial-up but I wouldn't
expect great audio quality. I'd be curious to hear how well it works with
dial-up.
Jerry
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I use Time Warner as my primary service and Skype for calls outside the
United States. When the power is out I have to depend on my cell phone.
Time Warner sounds like standard phone service. Skype's quality is not as
good but for two cents a minute most anywhere in the world is
Can you recommend a good toilet plunger or some other way to clear a
toilet that is really clogged? Does someone make a plunger that makes a
good seal with the toilet so that all the air pressure works against the
clog instead of leaking out into the toilet bowl?
Thanks.
Claudia! You can use different brands of batteries but be very sure that
you use the right chemistry for your charger. If the charger is designed for
Nickel Metal Hydride then be sure that you get Nickel Metal Hydride batteries.
If the charger is designed for Nickel Cadmium then be sure
$0.32 per KilowattHour sounds awfully high. I pay 2.64 cents per
KilowattHour. What I pay is amongst the lowest in the United States but it
comes through some deal that the municipalities here were offered a hundred
years ago. My town and three or four others are the only ones who took
I must have missed the original post but I heard of a man locally who
built a mouse trap. Apparently it was a washtub with water in it. It had a
plank extending out towards the center of the tub. The bait was suspended
above and out from the end of the plank. While trying to get the
Actually I live in Tupper Lake which along with Saranac Lake and Lake
Placid is one of the so-called Trilakes. Old Forge is a snowmobileing capital
of sorts. It's not too far away from here at sixty or so miles. There are
snowmobile trails that run between here and there and throughout
I live in Northern New York State. Saranac Lake, twenty miles to the East
is often reported on the Today Show as the coldest spot in the United States.
In Saranac Lake they pay twelve cents per Kilowatt Hour. We mostly heat with
electric because our municipal owned power supply only
I had some mouse traffic in a particular part of my garage. A couple of
months ago there was a garter snake coiled up right by the hole that a mouse
would come in. I wondered if the snake had figured out that he might be able
to get an easy meal right there.
Jerry
There's this shower cleaner called Jell Gloss made by TR Industries. It
gets that scummy soap and whatever else stuff off fiberglass showers and tubs.
I think it's petroleum based. You wipe it on with a cloth, then let it sit for
a couple of hours, then wipe it off with a dry cloth.
Heed the warning about using manure near surface water. One time I
applied some manure in my back yard. After a day or so I was scooping buckets
full of algae out of the pool.
Jerry
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I ship things to the UK frequently. It always weighs about three pounds
and with a few hundred dollars worth of insurance it usually comes to about
$35.00. That's using the United States mail. UPS and the others are much more
expensive and they are what most merchants use. I would
Perry! I sell the Gyration 100 foot range RF Wireless keyboard. This
would do what you want but at $199.00 it's not inexpensive by many peoples
standard.
There is no problem with having a regular keyboard and a USB keyboard
working simultaneously. I imagine it's the same for a
I'm not familiar with a lot of MP3 players but I would be surprised if a
given MP3 player didn't play Wave files also.
Jerry
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We saw Boric Acid in the dollar store just yesterday.
I'm sure there are cockroaches in Minnesota. I bet you'd have to go to
Antarctica to get rid of them but they would follow eventually.
Jerry
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I want to reattach an antenna to a radio. The antenna has a metal stub on
it that fits down a narrow slit. I thought if there were some fluid adhesive
that conducts current I could fill the slit with it and insert the antenna. I
would be gluing metal to plastic. I figured the fluid
There's an Atlas ICBM missile silo not too far from here that's for sale
for $2,000,000.
The web site is at www.silohome.com
Here's a little of what they say in the ad.
Possible Uses
- Safe home/moutain getaway.
With the reality of September 11th, why not have a safe haven to
Heat doesn't rise, hot air rises, not because it's hot necessarily, but
because, being hot it's probably is less dense than the air surrounding it..
I believe you should forget the elbows and just insulate the hot water
pipe.
Jerry
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I bought a propane heater four or so years ago and it has a pilot light.
Jerry
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