What happened to sec 255 is the universal cop out in all such
laws, When technically feasible! which they all use even though it's a
lie. If it costs one red cent more to make things accessible capitalists
call it nonfeasible.
Tom
don't have to worry about cleaning them.
Tom Fowle
with that capability
for just that situation, but I doub the average boob tube can do it.
Tom Fowle
Of course nobody said the vac that can only lift a 2Lb item
is developing 14.7 PSI of suction. However also involved would be the cross
sectional area of the pipe or hose, and the seal that developes between the
pipe and the item in question.
tom
Nope, you're just sending the same remote codes to the same TV with
a different remote.
Tom
David,
On the assumption, which you should test, that they
reverse the polarity of D.C. to the drive motor,
a diode and a piezo beeper from radio shack should do the trick.
If they are using something other than a simple D.C. motor, then it gets more
hairy.
Tom Fowle
The compass in the referenced article would give only 30 degrees of
resolution, maybe not bad over the long haul, but not good enough to get you
to that entrance across the big parking lot.
All very interesting
thanks
tom Fowle
Smith-Kettlewell RERC
San Francisco.
Hey Ray,
do you really mean this guy cut all the guttering and stuff with just a plain
old hand held hacksaw?
Wow, to me that either means he's cheap or he really has the experience to
be able to do it perfect the first time.
And from what you say, it's the latter possibility. He knows he can do
Luckilly I don't have to fix this:
About 20 years ago my landlord had the roof of our duplex redone by a cousin
who wa supposed to be a contractor.
Turned out they installed the gutters wrong so all the water ran up under the
shingles. so they cut off the roof back to the
edge of the wall and
read it pretty well without moving it, and it's only
a few bucks. Of course you look like you're
doing E ching or dousing for iron but what the heck, it may be
better than being lost.
Tom Fowle
the robotron Aria, a
1990s similar product.
I know an engineer who has at least prototyped one, and will write him and
see how it goes.
There may well be other talking clocks out there with stop watch functions.
Tom Fowle
the only criticism I have of Dale's excellent description is
it makes me exhausted just reading it.
Out here in San Francisco we're short of water and long on sun which
may get to be a real problem this summer, but there
won't be anything to shovel till we have to dig wells.
tom Fowle
Jim,
How level do you have to hold it when closed for the dial to float really fre?
Tom
?
Gary,
It wouldn't have allerted you to your error unless you'd
had some reason to stop and check, The talking compasses, like the Columbus
have a resolution of 45 degrees or so, so whe they work they can tell you
if you're 90 degrees off course. I'd try to find an edge to
track or other land
It would be interesting to do the trig necessary to find the error caused by
the click rule sometimes needing to be at a slight angle to flat, I'd bet
it's very small. The more extensions you need, the longer the measurement,
the smaller the induced error Unless the edge I'm measuring too at the
have to contact Envision America and talk to them about international
expansion.
The machine does NOT read the print lable, there is a chip added by the
pharmacy that carries the info.
Tom Fowle
In my kitchen there is such an enclosed area but the other side of it,
outside the house, is the hot water heater door. Check the other sides of
the walls and I'll bet you find something like that.
Tom
is not sharp.
Tom Fowle
I have a thing for starting nails that is like a thick pair of plyers with
various sized holes through the business end Thus when you open the plyers
you open each hole in half. Grab a nail in the appropriate hole and hold
the device against the surface, start the nail, and open
the plyers to
and boilup.
Tom Fowle
also seriously doubt both the 50Db claim and it's usefullness.
If a signal is in the noise, amplification will usually not solve that.
This is true for TV only, with shortwave it's a slightly different story,
although you can still have too much gain.
Tom Fowle
Oh, forgot, the amps aren't any deal to install, just input and output F
connectors and power.
Tom
Any of those glues will do fine but your problem is clamping the frame
fairly tightly to the plaster while the glue drys. If it can move the joint
will fail.
Some wood screws into the plaster may be enough if you don't want to go
clear through into the studs.
Use flat head screws and counter sink
Bill,
Any metalic object can attract lightning, but the higher up it is the more
likely it is to be a problem.
To be taken very seriously indeed if you live in areas where you get a lot
of it.
Tom Fowle
Almost any metalic surface you can get up in the air at all will help. You
may have trouble with corosion between the copper wire and the foil due to
electrochemical potential differences in the metals, so if it works for a
while and goes bad that may be why.
You can also try things like metal
.
have fun, and take care on ladders etc.
Happy newyear
Tom Fowle
very near any other object. Almost any plastic will do for
insulators.
tom Fowle
I regret to have to gently disagree with Dale, but in the case of a general
coverage receive antenna neither of Dale's points is really relivant.
Although it's true that in a resonant transmitting antenna, the bandwidth is
greater with larger element diameter, this won't be important in an
You might try very gently twisting the base in the wind direction to see if
you can feel the rachet click at all. Then gently rock it back and forth
just where the rachet wants to click and see if you can get it to release
and go backwards thus releasing the spring.
If there is any chance you can
Iwish all of you a grand holiday season and a fabulous new year.
Tom Fowle
Near San Francisco where it maybe gets down to the high 30s some times and
hasn't rained enough yet.
Jerry,
I don't know about specific products, but you can't pass
enough current through the cagarette lighter to start
a car if the battery is dead. Usually they're
fused for about 20 amps and it takes well over a
hundred amps to start most cars. All you can do is push
a heavy charge into the
They are called battery boosters and are a relatively small, maybe 10 pounds
led acid battery in a case. Yes you charge them from 110 volts and take
them to the car and plug them into the cigarett lighter socket, whereupon
they dump some of there charge into a nearly dead car battery. and may
get
Lenny,
First see that the plug and jack are clean, I'd bet you a doughnut that's
the problem. Also try another set of speakers or a pair of earphones
if you have them to be sure the problem isn't in the wire.
tom
well at all.
Tom Fowle WA6IVG
be theoretically possible to do one with taps
at different points for different frequencies, but I've never seen
such a beast as the switching between many different taps would be a mess.
Tom Fowle
clifford,
I've always wanted a big horizontal loop like that except I'd
like to feed it with open wire line to a modern
line tuner. The infamous broadcaster Art Bell had one out in
the nevada desert that was 1400 feet on a side, up at 60 feet. Now that's
an antenna to dream of.
73s
Tom WA6IVG
about antennas for sure is that most radios need one.
Tom Fowle WA6IVG
If it's metal, and it's high and its outside, you can probably make some
kind of antenna out of it. The very important exception being
anything to do with the power system. At least once a year there is a note
in a ham magazine about guys getting killed while trying to put up some
big fancy
Bill,
Usually, perticularly inolder places, a plumbing vent pipe is grounded.
but if there is any chance of PVC pipe anywhere in the stack, you might get
fooled.
It won't hurt anything, just won't perform as well as it might.
if you have a handy dandy talking meter, you could test the
bill,
I'd never be without one, although shortwave broadcasting
is much less interesting than it used to be unless you're
religious which I am most definintely not..
Do be sure, if you're spending any money at all, that any short wave receiver
has the ability to receive Code and SSB, in other
that solves it.
Probably corosion in the join between jack and plug.
Tom Fowle
calk
around the cables where they go through the jar and the lid to form a
watertight seal.
A coating of that same calk on the clamp joint wouldn't be a bad idea
either.
Tom Fowle
brain came up with after waking up too early.
tom Fowle
The glass is, as was said, just a protection for the bottom of the machine
and/or the rotating gizmo. Glass, unless it contains metalic components,
is entirely transparent to microwaves. Use anything that's microwave safe.
If you're not sure, put it in the oven for a few tens of seconds, if
In the case of 1.5V batteries, most are alcaline so maybe a vinegar
solution for cleanup would help ballance out the alcaline P.H.
I've always wanted to try a very small dab of silicon grease, maybe spark plug
boot grease if you can get it not too expensively.
The heat transfer grease used
We had a garage two houses from us go up many years ago, My wife
and i actually reported it and called our neighbor whose house was right next
the garage to get him awake and out of the way.
He started to get a hose and try to keep the fire off his house
and then remembered the idiots might have
However I'd think that in an arson situation like that unless you caught him
just as it was lit, things would go way to far way too fast
for a hand held extinguisher to do any good.
It's surely one of the difficult judgement calls to make when to try and when
to run like h and scream for
The tactile tape has its 6 inch ruler marked at 1/8Th inch intervals
with dots I think are too round for accurate comparison. But it's what
is out there.
Tom
.
Tom Fowle
Oh nuts, I wanted the talking atomic thermometer with the wireless clock
built in that does the cleaning too. GRIN
Tom Fowle
Bob,
I did find I could easilly move the burning box, and have some worries that
a strong stream might spread the fire. Another reason to do the
oval movement idea so as maybe to get below and above the heart of the fire.
Yeah, worrying about when things have gone too far for an extinguisher
is
I think using almost any extinguisher on a bad guy is a fine idea,
A CO2 unit might do some real harm, and Hailon could leave him having real
trouble breathing.
Tom
the stove or
the furnace just didn't work out.
We didn't want the stupid things doing false positives when
we turned on the stove. i also believe I remember some
time limits like you mentioned.
tom Fowle
this is to do depends on the particular device
holding the batteries.
I'll try to get some currently available accessible testers and see which
are best.
Tom Fowle
worry about it GRINYou're correct about the need for a belt case.
Tom Fowle
to calibrate this
reading out, but the relative button on the talking meter may do it.
Tom fowle
looking for what somebody thought was private information.
Tom Fowle
the meter is the one from Marlin P. Jones that's been discussed so much
recently on the list.
And yes you surely should be able to use it to check house circuits either
voltage or resistance.
See recent posts on the current sale price of this meter.
Tom Fowle
going.
Hope this encourages you to try something for your selves and learn more
about what you can do.
Besides, since I had a pro on hand, it was fun and helped build a good
connection with a possible future family member.
tom Fowle
Rita,
I think the cost of such cuts would be too high, but call a couple of yards
and see if they have scrap bins. Often you can get relatively short lengths
of lumber that you could bung together with screws or nials and cover with
carpet. Should be pretty cheap.
Tom Fowle
are such wonderfull things, but all they give you is
a leg to stand on when you sue the person you think has stolen your patented
stuff.
Just because this jerk said the tree was in his catalog means nothing. I
really doubt such a design would be patentable.
Tom Fowle
Tom
Try this is you've a mind, it may well not work but easy if it does:
Go to radio shackand geta telephone pickup coil.
If you don't have a small amplifier with an 1.8Th inch input jack, get one
of those test amplifiers they sell, they're handy to have.
Plug the pickup coil into the input
Larry,
thanks for that, I am thinking of blind mechanics not average drivers
so your info is most helpful for my info archives, wherever
they are GRIN
Yep, all screen readers suck, some of them just suck differently.
It might be that if you had a scripting nerd in your back pocket one or other
Just being my old paranoid self, i'd wonder about the strength of a porch
roof before railing it. but I too would love a roof platform to
go up on.
Tom
Jewel,
At least in this country, such wavers have no true legal force.
As past commodore of a sailing club for PWDs
we are told to get such a waver for everyone who sails with us, but in the
same breath that in a case of real injury and legal action
the waver is of no use.
One truly wonders both
Actually I've found the sailing community is pretty darned accepting too
I've walked the docks of a 750 slip marine with no railings of
course, anchors sticking out, dock lines drapped about with
great abandon, and nobody ever panicked, not even the
security people. So it ain't all stupidity.
Tom
of experience with making stuff vibrate.
Tom Fowle
Smith-kettlewell RERC
Larry,
Yep, that or the ball in a cage gozmo that RNIB made while back.
Only deal is ya gotta have a hand on the thing whilst trying to jiggle
the shelf or fence or whatever.
I was thinking about a vibration you might feel in your
pocket but that's take wires which would be a pain.
tom
Hey Lary,
I don't remember an optacon with a vibration thingie on the chest,
but such a thing was done here at Smith-Kettlewell using a TV. camera
and an array of vibrating pins. Had you really been desperate
enough it's possible you could have used it on scope, but they were
hideously expensive
Lary,
Yep, scopes are done for.
Which code reader package are you using, and with which screen reader?
tnx
Tom WA6IVG
for the blind, they were opposed to all those
stereotyped occupations for us, thus they taught us almost nothing of any
use at all!
tom Fowle
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Also from my perspective of total ignorance of caning It seems to me that
repairing holes by inserting dowels and re-drilling would leave a very thin
wall next to the original breakout, and that this is where the pressure of
the new cane will be maximum.
Maybe we're all carrying speculation from
speculative off the hat thinking from ignorance.
When i was at the Cal school for the blind, they were opposed to all those
stereotyped occupations for us, thus they taught us almost nothing of any
use at all!
tom Fowle
how you resolve the problem.
Tom Fowle
Get a small chunk of the intended pipe and put one ro two lights in it.
Ask a vissie if the pipe makes the lights look weird or blocks them
entirely. I doubt it's clear.
You may not need screws, many pvc fittings fit pretty tight anyhow.
Of course make sure the screws are short enough not to
the F.M. antenna question, yes, there should be a number of antennas
that will do better than what was supplied with the center.
Depends on how far you are from broadcast stations, and whether you can run
coax outside to a high point like roof.
If you're in an apartment and can spend a little
I used to hear of using a pinch of cream of tartar in a pot of water and
running same through the maker, then rinse.
but since tartar is tartaric acid, I wonder as so is coffee, How about just
baking soda in water?
Tom Fowle
or moved a lot.
Tom fowle
to
lose a volt and a half of supply voltage. There may be a more modern
voltage regulator of the switching type that does a better job.
clever design.
Tom Fowle
not.
Of course if there is no bulb present no current flows, doesn't
matter what kind of bulb you were thinking of putting in there.
Tom Fowle
Dale,
Yep, a bridge is how I'd do it too, but there are so many new
switching regulators out there there might be something
that eliminates the 1.5 volt drop of the bridge.
Our U.S. department of engraving still whines about
different sized bills and wants to put bumps on them
which will wear
it for remote sensing as in temperature/pressure etc, and have a
demo kit with a microcontroller and wireless transmitter.
We may get one just to fiddle with.
No particular BHM application, just a cute idea I thought I'd
pass along for fun.
tom Fowle
Dale,
The blerb didn't spec the amount of power available, might not be enough to
sound an audible alarm, although probably enough to send a radio signal
to a main alarm panel which could have batteries. this gizmo would elminate
the need for batteries in sensors
tom
during testing and hasn't fallen
apart yet.
This scheme would be hard to do for longer lengths, but worked great for this
setup.
Apparrently even though my wraps aren't perfectly even, it looks fine.
Have fun
Tom Fowle
Jim,
I don't think you could power the pooper-scoopers you'd need to clean the
tred mill! after the ducks! GRIN
Tom
.
There is a tendency to refer to electrical current as a a generic
for voltage which it isn't.Saying is ther current present' is not correct,
there can be voltage present, but no current flowing.
I'm sure we all get it, but its better
to keep terms straight.
Tom Fowle
Dan Rossi has said it all I can't do better
You all have made a difference and what more can we ask.
Thanks in spades, or wheelbarrow fulls.
Tom Fowle
I think the original Sharp talking time one would do that if you happen to
have one burried somewhere.
Also how about a talking clock with three alarms one set for 12, one for
4 and one for 8. or whatever appropriate time.
Maybe you'd need two such clocks for am/pm.
Tom Fowle
, it you don't pull a knob or turn a real switch, but push a button
on a digital panel, then all bets are off.
tom Fowle
Hadn't heard of this ball bearing motor, sounds like something to try when
you're feeling like high risk behavior and don't mind burns and fires.
tom Fowle
that had to have its time set before it'd work, I'd
take it back and yell.
Shouldn't stupid design be a cause for product return?
Oh, then so many of us should be returned for warranty repair! GRIN
Well, not us but them!
Tom Fowle
I doubt any but the fanciest washers and dryers would consume power when
off. Unless they show lights or other displays when off I'd not worry about
them.
I bet same with the heat pump, although there might be an active transformer
in that.
Our electric utility, PGE just updated our meters to
I also don't buy the hot water heater idea. When you turn the thermostat
back up, it has to bring the entire tank of water back up to temperature and
I'd bet that uses more energy than leaving it hot. I don't think our 30
year old gas hot water heater ever comes on without usage.
Tom
I can't immediately see why the transformer would be in danger
but I don't know enough about how various systems work.
Hopefully someone here knows more.
Tom fowle
solid state, I'd be a bit cautious.
Tom Fowle
Ralph,
I'd arrange things so as the direction you want to move the hole is downward
much easier to keep pressure going the right way and not go off at some cockeyed
angle. but you will anyhow, I always do! GRIN
Tom
for this job, too hard to control and too
darned dangerous to little blind haptors.
Tom Fowle
Ralph,
That's a perfectly fine way, I'd assumed, obviously wrongly,
that the length you needed would be less than the diameter of
two holes. The chisel can give you a nice straight edge to the result.
Tom
big enough for a number 4 screw or the like, the
surface speed of the bit gets pretty low and they're not efficient.
A file's the way to go unless you've got lots of holes.
Tom Fowle
Dan,
I'd wonder if that might even be usefull to sightlings, should be faster
than measuring? but I bet they just eyeball it much of the time.
Surely it could be stampped out cheap, get going on that GRIN
tom
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