[BlindHandyMan] Read This To Me

2007-10-15 Thread Lenny McHugh
This service could be very helpful to the blind handyman. Read This To Me is a free reading service for the blind, powered by volunteers and Internet collaboration. http://www.readthistome.org/ Read This To Me allows blind and low-vision people to have printed documents read to them over the

RE: [BlindHandyMan] find air flapper

2007-10-15 Thread robert moore
Loren Unless they have changed the controls from about 1990 or 1991 your controls should slide up and down and the fan speed control runs left and right at the top of the control panel if this is the case then you should find 2 screws at the bottom of the control pamel they screw in vertically

Re: [BlindHandyMan] find air flapper

2007-10-15 Thread Loren buntemeyer
Robert, There are three knobs and three buttons on the panel. Left knob is fan speed, middle temp and right is selection of defrost, etc. When I switch the right knob, you can hear the air switching from front or floor vents to windshield vents, but the flapper is not moving. In the past, I

RE: [BlindHandyMan] find air flapper

2007-10-15 Thread robert moore
Loren That is a whole different animal. I can only assume that this system is controlled by some type of selinoid that switches the direction of the vacuum. If you can remove the inspection pammels under the dash and get at the vacuum hoses I would look to see if you have a vacuum leak some where

RE: [BlindHandyMan] find air flapper

2007-10-15 Thread Larry Stansifer
The other thing you might want to do is check your destination vacuum. There is a lot of very flimsy hose between the dash and the motor. At 10:28 AM 10/15/2007 -0500, Robert moore wrote: Loren Unless they have changed the controls from about 1990 or 1991 your controls should slide up and down

[BlindHandyMan] Why is there a small hole on the top of spray-can lids?

2007-10-15 Thread Ray Boyce
These little holes are a good example of a feature built into a product so that it can handle unusual or unexpected situations. We don't think about or see these situations in the normal use of the product. For example, if you look at the sheet metal under the hood of your car, you will see

[BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box

2007-10-15 Thread David Sexton
I want to build a temperature controlled box for controlling the temperature at which my bread dough rises. I'm thinking a box with a heat lamp and some sort of thermostat. Any ideas for the heat and more importantly the thermostat to control it? David [Non-text portions of this message have

Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box

2007-10-15 Thread RJ
One of the things you can do is use a stiafoam cooler, like they ship meat with. Add a heating pad and a towel over the pad, place the bread in the cooler and put the lid on it. This has worked well for me, both for making homemade yoga, and bread. RJ - Original Message - From:

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Why is there a small hole on the top of spray-can lids?

2007-10-15 Thread andrewtaff
THE ANSWER TO THIS IS QUITE SIMPLE IT STOPS A PRESURE BUILD UP WHEN YOU PUSH THE TOP ON WHICH COULD PRESS DOWN THE SPRAY HEAD AND IT STOPS THE TOP POPPING OFF IF THE TOP WAS PUT ON COLD LIKE IN THE MORNING OUTSIDE THEN BROUGHT INTO ROOM TEMPRATURE HOPE THIS HELPS aNDREW - Original

RE: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box

2007-10-15 Thread robert moore
How about getting an incubater Or if you know any farmer types that might have one you could ask to see how they are designed. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RJ Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:49 PM To:

Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box

2007-10-15 Thread Tom Fowle
David, It won't take very much heat if you insulate the box at all well. I'd bet a couple 15 or 25 watt light bulbs around the bottom corners with a false bottom of maybe peg board above that to help distribute the heat would do just fine. You might tear apart an old small electric heater and

Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box

2007-10-15 Thread Dale Leavens
I suppose it depends on how much you want to spend and how capable you want it to be. Proofing bread requires dark, warmth and humidity. Any sort of cardboard box then can do, a foam insulated cooler will be more energy efficient and you might construct one using something like extruded

Re: [BlindHandyMan] temperature controlled box

2007-10-15 Thread Tom Fowle
I had a friend who used to live up in the siera where power cost her for gas or propane and she had lots of wood. She had a cupboard built above the kitchen range just for proofing. As the range almost never was allowed to cool off, the cupboard was always just right. And bread baked in a wood

[BlindHandyMan] G. T. O is back

2007-10-15 Thread clifford
Dear Lee: A good friend, is a salesman for a Pontiac dealer, and he was recently telling me about the current version of the G. T. O, which sports a 400 hp engine. Apparently, the price is less than one might expect. Yours Truly, Clifford Wilson