Posts Tagged ‘Wheelchair’
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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In light of the current situation, outside we have currently at 10:08 h already 25,4° C, something topical.
Because I can hardly grasp with my fingers it is only possible for me to move my wheelchair when I press my hands against the hand rims of the driving wheels and push them forward.
This is only possible for me with rubberized hand rims, unless I push with the spokes which is a little inconvenient and not possible if you have spoke protectors.
The hand rims are available readily coated with rubber, or as
“sliced hosepipe“ (hand rim cover),
which you pull over on a standard hand rim.
Everybody has to decide for himself what is better or worse.
It is said that the hand rim covers would slip from the hand rims in the summer when it is warm and the rubber gets soft.
I have made the same negative experience.
You can counteract very simple if you clean the hand rim covers approximately all two weeks from in- and outside respectively the hand rims with an alcoholic cleaner like window cleaner, rubbing alcohol,…
The covers stick afterwards to the hand rim like glued.
Now a little bit of hairspray outside on the hand rim cover, and there is nothing in the way of a trip to the swimming lake.
If they have a lift to water at the swimming lake?
Translator BL
Tags:Grip, GreifringĂĽberzug, Technical Aids, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Tyres, Quadriplegic Tips
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
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The selection of wheelchair tyres should not be under-estimated.
For the driving wheels it has to be decided first:
Full cushion or pneumatic tyres?
Many active wheelers are using
Pneumatic tyres Schwalbe Marathon Plus (until 10 bar*).
There is a persistent rumour that it completely doesn’t matter how the tyre is mounted as no wheelchair tyre ever has a running direction.
Very convincing!
Due to the stud axles on the wheelchair the tyres can be switched from right to left.
Because the profile of the tyre is not equal there hast o be a difference.
I don’t have much power and noticed the difference immediately when the tyres were exchanged, but this wasn’t supposed to be possible.
Now I wanted to know and wrote to the company Schwalbe.
I have already received a reply on the next day:
The tyre is mounted in the designated running direction so that it has a low rolling resistance.
If the tyre would have been fitted in the opposite direction it would have a better traction as e.g. for
ice and snow,
but then with a higher rolling resistance.
So this secret was disclosed as well.
At the next
tyre change
you should mind that you get tyres with additional reflector stripes.
Thus you will even be seen when you are rolling home from the club at night.
* Tyres should have 8 bar pressure.
The other one has to feel it when you ride across his foot!
Translator BL
Tags:Technical Aids, Reflector, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Tyres, Tips and Tricks
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
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It is nothing new that the health insurances are currently in financial difficulties.
The saving-mania reaches unforeseen dimensions.
To save mounting costs technical aids will be delivered to all in need as construction kits only.
It is stopped not even at kids.
Look yourself, the new
Constructy 2101 for do-it-yourself mounting
The advantage of the Constructy 2101 is that the size can be easily adjusted with a couple of bricks.
For adults the wheelchair components are pre-fabricated in Sweden.
But seriously: Pictures from Kids medical supply (Kindersanitätshaus).
Simply great, keep it up!!!
Translator BL
Tags:Technical Aids, Wheelchair
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
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During the winter I had
Mountainbike Wheelchair tyres
 (see older blog post)
built according to my ideas to brave the quantities of snow.
Just in time with the thawing in Frankfurt the tyres were ready.
To conduct an endurance test with the tyres anyhow they were subject to a two week testing in the
Alps
Extreme up and down Snow-Riding!
Extreme Off-road Hand cycling
Extreme Haldensee- Rounding
Extreme Wheelchair Jumping
All tests were completed more or less successfully.
Broken axles, flat tyres and broken spokes were incurred only sporadically. As three to five defects per week are usual in the technical aids area there are no hurdles for serial production.
Translator BL
Tags:Handcycle, Technical Aids, Oberstdorf, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Tyres, Sport, Tips and Tricks
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Many wheelers receive an invalidity pension.
An additional income of 400 € is possible provided that a job is found.
The search for a new meaningful job turns out to be rather difficult sometimes because according to general opinion the brain activity is limited significantly as well after permanently giving up to touch the ground with the feet.
Sometimes I even believe it myself.
Everybody knows the situation: You are in a department store and looking for ages until a suitable piece of clothing has been found. The saleswomen are all extremely busy, but storm towards you in hordes to bring the chosen piece to the cash counter.
In department stores there are no shopping trolleys either, so that the quantity of pieces of clothing to buy is limited by the weight and carrying capacity of your arms.
Now he comes into operation:
Wheelchair shopping trolley and advisor for power shoppers
For the elderly you can make yourself available as rollator/walker as well.
Above 800 kg sold clothing the additional income limit is reached.
Translator BL
Many wheelers receive an invalidity pension.
An additional income of 400 € is possible provided that a job is found.
The search for a new meaningful job turns out to be rather difficult sometimes because according to general opinion the brain activity is limited significantly as well after permanently giving up to touch the ground with the feet.
Sometimes I even believe it myself.
Everybody knows the situation: You are in a department store and looking for ages until a suitable piece of clothing has been found. The saleswomen are all extremely busy, but storm towards you in hordes to bring the chosen piece to the cash counter.
In department stores there are no shopping trolleys either, so that the quantity of pieces of clothing to buy is limited by the weight and carrying capacity of your arms.
Now he comes into operation:
Wheelchair shopping trolley and advisor for power shoppers
For the elderly you can make yourself available as rollator/walker as well.
Above 800 kg sold clothing the additional income limit is reached.
Translator BL
Tags:Crazy Flash, Shopping, Job, Wheelchair
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
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This winter during snow drift I have bought a
run-in hand cycle
(see older blogpost).
The main reason was probably my guilty conscience after I stood with my wheelchair on a platform laundry scale. I can eat whatever I want, the wheelchair is getting more and more heavy 
The bike was auctioned for charity. The proceeds should be used to purchase a horse!
Swapping “donkey on wheels” for therapy pony!
This is really true, donations are still accepted.
The bike was allowed to have a rest in my cellar after the long journey from the north.
It was run-in so well that around 200 gram unnecessary
dead weight in screws and nuts
were thrown off in the last years and thus missing.
The driving noise
was probably planned that loud for safety reasons so that you are heard by the other traffic participants, like a fire engine on duty.
The bike chain
reminded of a hammock and was as dry as the Namib desert. (I haven’t been to the Gobi desert yet.)
The universal fastener,
with which the hand cycle is adjusted to the particular wheelchair, was locked with two high-quality steel weld seams, so that the adjustment to my wheelchair was made a little more difficult than planned.
The person who welded the fastener knew what he was doing and is probably working in the shipbuilding in a dockyard. The weld seams were bombproof…
The original handles and gear shift
have been adjusted by some friends for me so that I can use them with my buckled fingers and hands.
I could have used the original special handles only limited, they cost 230 € and I didn’t like them anyway.
The rack
was additionally mounted with two small
iron plates
of around 10 cm length to keep it up horizontally.
My mate calls such constructions usually:
Russian-style: Looking sh…, but working well.
Why the previous owner didn’t take the provided clamps from the rack and turned them around will remain his secret.
Now I can take on with any granny at the
Rollator race.
Equal opportunities at last!!!
As you can see my pot belly still didn’t get smaller, but I keep you posted!
Translator BL
Tags:Handcycle, Technical Aids, Wheelchair, Sport
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
 Â
Postzustellrolli E-Type Â
Anscheinend hat die Post neue Arbeitsplätze in der Zustellung für Rollstuhlfahrer geschaffen.
Die Zustellung von Tieren aller Art wie Hunden, Katzen, Schlangen, Meer- und Mastschweinen… wird Gerüchten zu Folge jetzt ausschließlich von den
 Gelben Rollipostlern Â
ĂĽbernommen. Die EhemaligenÂ
ZufuĂźtierzustellerÂ
versuchen immer wieder erfolglos die Rollipostler aufzuhalten.Â
OK, bisschen ernsthafter:Â
Die Idee eine ausgemusterte Postbox vor den Rolli zu montieren ist genial.
Die Box ist seitlich wegschwenkbar und ermöglicht problemlos den Transport der Einkäufe bis ca. 20 kg. Außerdem kann die Box mit einem Handgriff abgenommen werden.
Mir ist nicht bekannt, dass etwas Ă„hnliches wie dieserÂ
Boxenhalter Â
von einem Rollstuhlhersteller angeboten wird.Â
Die standen alle noch nie im Supermarkt an der Kasse, wenn die Einkäufe nicht mehr in den Rucksack passten, oder der Rolli wegen Ăśbergewicht drohte nach Hinten umzufallen.Â
Der Rolli bekam zusätzlich vorne und hinten eine vernĂĽnftigeÂ
LED-Beleuchtung.Â
Durch einenÂ
Zweiten AkkuÂ
fĂĽr den E-fix Antrieb (Motoren in den Radnaben), wurde die Reichweite von 18 km auf rund 36 km
(6 Stunden Vollgas) in der Ebene erreicht.Â
Das langt leider immer noch nicht, wenn der Partner Marathonläufer ist.Â
Es ist geplant später einmal den E-Rolli mit einerÂ
BrennstoffzelleÂ
der Fa. Efoy anzutreiben.
Brennstoffzellen in Rollis einzubauen, ist ein Quantensprung im punkto Reichweite, aber noch recht teuer.
Aus Gewichtsgründen lassen sich allerdings die E-fix Antriebsräder nicht mit einer Autobatterie/Akku betreiben. Da sie 24V benötigen und zwei 12 Volt Autobatterien/Akku dann viel zu schwer wären. Dieses Problem würde die Brennstoffzelle lösen. Mit einem 12Volt 12 Ah Akku (nur für Spitzenlast und Kurzstrecke) und der Brennstoffzelle wäre der Rolli wesentlich leichter als heute mit zwei 12 Volt 18Ah Akkus.
Mit einer Tankpatrone der Brennstoffzelle könnte der Fahrer verteilt ĂĽber mehrere Tage mehr als 500 km mit dem E- Rolli zurĂĽcklegen. Bei einer täglichen Fahrleistung von z.B. 20 km ist der E- Rolli so einen vollen Monat lang einsatzbereit ohne jemals an die Steckdose zu mĂĽssen.Â
Da mĂĽsste der Partner schon Haile Gebrselassie heiĂźen, um da noch mitzukommen. Â
Danke an Holger (siehe Kommentar) fĂĽr seine Beschreibung dieses Spezialumbaus!
Tags:Fuel Cells, Technical Aids, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Tyres
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
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It is no secret that I am constantly “tailoring” my wheelchair.
But even I am surprised about what my fellow wheelers are developing.
Wheelchair 24 carat gold-plated with dollar signs as spokes!
With this one “50 Cent” is pushed through the Bronx after a leg fracture!
Source Colours Wheelchair
How about this tank wheelchair with chain-drive!
Pedestrians have respect immediately, and the human crowd separates at a street fair like once Moses parted the sea.
Source TC Mobility www.tankchair.net
The army wheelchair for the Middle East mission.
The arms were not permitted to be shown.
My personal highlight, the donated
Indian Low Budget Wheelchair
of the world-wide operating organisation free wheelchair mission
Look closely, it has brake handle extensions.
This is no fake!
Translator BL
Tags:Technical Aids, Wheelchair
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
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Everybody who knew me before my accident should still remember that I was a quite good dancer.
The thought would have been absurd that I would ever acquire a
dancing pole
for my own four walls,
especially because classic ballet was none of my favourite dancing styles.
Now as passive dancer I have let me built a
stainless steel pole
and fix it to the wall.
However the intended use of this pole is different.
I place myself with my
race wheelchair
next to my
standing device
(this is not a wheelchair)
and transfer over with my dancing pole and slide board and with the help of unnamed volunteers.
Now I’m buckled up, and I am
„standing on my own two feet again“.
Good that I am not on the picture, so at least you can’t see my pot belly.
Translator BL
Tags:Physio Therapy, Wheelchair, To Stand, Stand Wheelchair, Dancing Pole, Therapy, Tips and Tricks
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Ich bin so langsam ernsthaft am ĂĽberlegen, ob bei meinem Unfall das
Tuning-Gen
aktiviert wurde, als mir das Auto auf den Kopf fiel.
Seinen Rolli mit zusätzlichen
Reflektoren
zu bekleben, einen
Tacho und RĂĽcklicht
(siehe älteren Beitrag)
nachzurĂĽsten, ihn mit
Stoßdämpfern
Â
auszustatten,den
Kippschutz
zu modifizieren, die
Lager Â
auszutauschen, und das
RĂĽckenteil
von 3 verschiedenen Rollstuhlherstellern zusammenzufriemeln, wir wollen ja nicht
Die Maus
(siehe älteren Beitrag)
am Rucksack vergessen, erscheint ja irgendwie noch legitim.
Aus medizinischer Sicht sind sogar noch
CarbonkotflĂĽgel
vertretbar,aber mit
 2 Chromleisten,
den
24 Zoll Breitreifen*
*(ok, hoch statt breit)
(siehe älteren Beitrag)
und seiner Lederausstattung in Form meines neuen schwarzen
Nappa-Leder-Sitzkissenbezuges,
Â
nehme ich es jetzt mit meinem Rolli mit jedem
3er BMW
auf.
Ein StĂĽck korrekt Wurzelholz, 2 PlĂĽschwĂĽrfel und eine
8er Billardkugel bekomme ich auch noch irgendwie verbaut.
Ăśber die Sorte des Wunderbaumes wird derzeit noch gestritten!!
Ich kann beim Fahren beide Ellenbogen raushängen lassen 
Tags:Wheelchair, Wheelchair Tyres, Wheelchair Bag, Cusion
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
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In winter or rainy weather, almost all pedestrians take off their shoes in front of their door and sneak in socks over the laminate.
I absolutely appreciate that this makes sense when you have estimated 2 kg snow on the soles of your shoes
and you don’t like to go sledging in your flat.
You won’t believe how much snow or rain water can stick to a wheelchair.
Even the wiping of the wheelchair tyres with discarded towels is rather difficult if you are not a Paralympian or contortionist.
To counteract the spring tide in your flat
I have purchased a carpet as it is usually lying e.g. at the entrance of department stores and positioned it outside of my door in the staircase.
These carpets absorb up to 6 liters of water per m².
With its size of 230 cm x 120 cm my
wheelchair tyre cleaning carpet
(wheelchair doormat)
could actually absorb more than 16 liters rain water.
Before I roll into the flat I am doing two laps on the carpet in the staircase, and the wheelchair tyres are clean and dry.
Up to now the maximum “filling capacity” was not reached yet.
Translator BL
Tags:Technical Aids, Rain, Wheelchair, Snow, Carpet, Tips and Tricks, Home
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Technical Aids, Selbstgebaute Hilfsmittel, Tips and Tricks, Winter | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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After winter season is over and snow is melted, finally my
special wheelchair winter tyres
are ready.
Because the wheelchair producers offer mountain bike wheelchair tyres for dumping prices as of 550 € on the open-ended scale,
I have decided while sitting in my flat during a snow drift to construct
offroad wheelchair winter tyres
myself and let it produce in small batch (two pieces).
I would like to point out that I have not copied anything,
the outcome should be reasonable after all.
The winter has just been too short!
Today I have the tyres on my wheelchair for the first time, and the snow is gone.
What a cheek.
OK, maybe instead
wheelchair downhill mountainbiking
Translator BL
Tags:Wheelchair, Wheelchair Tyres, Snow
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
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When you have motor functions in hands and fingers like the Berlin wall you automatically keep everything tidy, otherwise you will drown into chaos.
My wheelchair rucksack contains more or less everything what you need to survive in the wild.
For me it takes some effort to take down the rucksack from the back of my wheelchair and rummage around into it to search for something which somebody has stuffed in there.
Probably scientists never have thought about:
Where on a rucksack is front and back?
This question should be clarified once and for all.
I have learnt once that on a car the front is always in driving direction when you are sitting inside.
Driving backwards doesn’t count.
Can I apply this to my wheelchair rucksack as well?
The wheelchair transport drivers always have asked me in which pocket of my rucksack was the card to debit the transport charges?
I would have liked to know it myself… Each time in a different place.
Is the small pocket on the front or the back of the rucksack?
This depends probably from the viewer’s perspective.
For me sitting in the wheelchair it is on the back, for some of the drivers it is on the front, or not???
A solution had to be found. At a visit of the regional broadcasting station I had bought
The “Maus”
(translator’s note: the mouse, popular German children TV character) and fixed it on one pocket of my rucksack.
From this day it only went:
With the mouse!
In the mouse pocket!
In the mouse trap!
Basically the result was quite good.
But now more or less everything is stuffed into the mouse pocket, so that there is a big mess now inside.
Will I have to switch to Walt Disney now and fix a whole toy armada to my rucksack to find the remote control for my stairlift?!
Donations of small accessories with key ring to mark the other pockets will be gladly accepted.
Wheelchair rucksack cuddly toys donation account
Some time I will confuse the drivers totally and fix the “Blue Elephant” (companion of the “Maus”) on my rucksack
Translator BL
Tags:Technical Aids, Maus (Mouse), Wheelchair, Wheelchair Bag
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Bei allen Luftreifen am Rolli sollte man ca. 14 tägig den
Reifendruck
kontrollieren, oder man hat SpaĂź daran einen Anker hinter sich herzuziehen.
Der freundliche Tankwart um die Ecke ist wie dafĂĽr gemacht.
Es hat zwar etwas gedauert, bis er überzeugt war, dass ich wirklich auf meinem Rollirädern 8 Bar Druck haben möchte, nun gut.
Viele Rollifahrer verwenden Reifen der Fa. Schwalbe Typ:
„Marathon Plus“. Betriebsdruck 6-10 Bar.
Angeblich wĂĽrden die Teile auch 12 Bar aushalten.
So mutig war ich noch nicht, ich stand neben einem Rollifahrer als einer seiner Reifen platzte.
Brachial laut. Da piepsen nicht nur die Ohren.
Ich habe einmal einen Rollifahrer kennen gelernt, der nach 4 Jahren das erste mal richtigen Luftdruck auf den Reifen hatte und sich die Bremse dann nachstellen lassen musste, weil er sie nicht mehr drĂĽcken konnte.
Es gibt fĂĽr kleines Geld Minikompressoren die aussehen wie ein Akkuschrauber.
Wenn man an den Schlauch einen vernĂĽnftigen Ventilanschluss montiert, sind die gar nicht schlecht.
Es muss ja nicht immer ein GrĂĽner sein.
Tags:Technical Aids, Tyre Pressure, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Tyres, Tips and Tricks
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