Posts Tagged ‘Grip’
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
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I have bought the
hand cycle
with an extra amount of snow.
The costs of such a bike start from 2400€ when it’s new
(no typing error).
It doesn’t even have 2 wheels!!!
One day it should look like this (see newer blogposts).
I have to clean instead of writing 
Still no clue how I should hold the handles…,
let alone how I should shift the gears?
The handles issue should work out somehow with lots of duct tape, construction foam, sanitary silicone and super glue so that I can hold them with my buckled fingers.
There is a variant to shift gears with the chin.
Attach a toothbrush to the lever,
and I sell the bike in Ebay in the beauty section for double the price.
Translator BL
Tags:Grip, Handcycle, Sport
Posted in General, Various, Technical Aids, Pimp My Ride, Holiday | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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It is always a little difficult to switch on and off electric devices sitting in a wheelchair.
There are always missing the commonly known 2 cm.
Not 1 cm, or 5 cm?
There are always 2 cm.
I have the theory that this results from mass inertia, momentum and black holes.
Here is the solution:
remote-controlled electrical sockets!!!
A remote-controlled Christmas Tree lighting is quite nice.
(see other blogpost)
Radio coverage allegedly until 25 m. (Probably only at full moon on April 1st).
You can get regularly special offers for a pack of 4!
(15 €, not much more.)
If you buy the pack of 4 twice from the same manufacturer, you should change the radio frequency with the little DIP switches, (in German) also known as
mice piano
.
It might happen otherwise that the toilet light is switched on together with the coffee machine.
Well, maybe not so bad after all… let’s think about it again…
It is not complicated to change the switches.
Every quadriplegic who manages it should get a piece of cake or two from his occupational therapist.
Serious safety instruction:
Please always consider the max. switching power, around 1000 watt.
Never connect an electric heater, around 2000 watt!!!
The switches get hot and might start burning.
I have experimentally connected an electric heater, the electrical socket didn’t survive!!!
Should there be any difficulties with playing the keys (setting the switches) I am at your disposal as professional ”piano tutor” .
Have fun with the piano lesson.
Translator BL
Tags:Funksteckdosen, Grip, Technical Aids, Light, Quadriplegic Tips, Tips and Tricks, Christmas, Home
Posted in General, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic, Tips and Tricks | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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After the usual administrative chaos caused by all those who can cut a piece of paper gets currently out of hand, I feel a bit like the “Hauptmann von Köpenick” (synonym from German literature for a catch-22; without residence no work, without work no residence), and I have decided to take 3-4 valium more and turn again towards my
passion,
the technical aids for quadriplegics. What a sentence, the blue things are helping already, I am suddenly missing the fullstopslll
Knife, fork, scissors, flames, have no place in quadriplegic’s gamesl
That’s about true
To cut paper with a scissor is not funny,
especially when you like me can’t even press a clothespin.
If
scissor-type silhouettes
aren’t going to be the new hobby I can highly recommend a
Paper Guillotine,
one-arm-usage guaranteed “fullstop”.
The blue pills are ttzzzzzzzzz
Translator BL
Tags:Grip, Technical Aids, Paper, Cut, Quadriplegic Tips, Tips and Tricks
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
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Due to my spinal cord injury my blood pressure hardly rises above 100.
My mate always says:
Don’t get upset, otherwise you will get a blood pressure of 120.
To increase my blood pressure there is apart from pills a much faster method,
zip fastener
Just try to cook a 4-course-menu with winter mittens, then you know what I mean.
The ultimate discipline are ski jackets with double zipper.
Commitment to a psychiatric institution guaranteed.
Each quadriplegic has a key ring on the zipper.
With a
clip for braces + key ring or tie wrap
I now have 2 rings at the zipper start.
You “go“ with two fingers in the ring.
Now you have to practice, practice, practice,…
Then the zipper can be closed quite well…
If the zipper is not gliding well, there is the old skiing trick with a little spray of
silicon oil
and then it slides considerably easier.
See what is written on the can:
“Everything“ will glide faster, easier, and more quietly!!!
Listen, you don’t hear anything 
Translator BL
Tags:Grip, Technical Aids, Tie Wrap, Zipper, Quadriplegic Tips, Tips and Tricks
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic, Selbstgebaute Hilfsmittel | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
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Here comes a for insiders quite well-known technical aid!!!
I will call it
Angle knife.
It’s a mystery to me how you can cut something with this knife without hurting yourself.
A first aid plaster dispenser on the handle would probably make some sense.
I would have to try to grip this sharp construct with two hands, and before the sausage should be nailed down to the table.
OK, enough nagging.
Look at it, maybe it can help some of you!
One might possibly change tyres with it.
I better shouldn’t have mixed Novalgin with Vodka.
Addendum:
Read the blogpost
Link:
about a really good quadriplegic special knife
from the company www.mehal.de.
Translator BL
Tags:Food, Grip, Technical Aids, Kitchen, Cut, Quadriplegic Tips, Tips and Tricks
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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You have probably noticed already that I am a self-confessed pedant in the technical area.
I am very lucky that my family and friends again and again take their time to realize my sometimes a bit weird ideas in the area of technical aids.
It is hardly possible to do this myself with my handicap.
At this stage many, many thanks.
If I wouldn’t have this kind of help my technical aids would be a lot more basic.
Here is a great idea how you can help yourself as quadriplegic with the most simple means.
The tie wrap on the phone has amongst others the reason to hang the phone over the brake of the wheelchair.
Thank you for the tip, I need more of these!!!
Even I can write serious blogposts.
Where have my pills gone?
Translator BL
Tags:BĂĽro, Grip, Technical Aids, Tie Wrap, Telephone, Quadriplegic Tips, Tips and Tricks
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic, Selbstgebaute Hilfsmittel, Quadriplegic Workshop | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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The personal enemy of the quadri-(aka tetra-)plegic is, hardly to believe, the:
Tetra Pak beverage carton
These things are so smooth that it is hardly possible to decently pour something into a glass.
I was owning this
metal holder for Tetra Paks
already a couple of years before my accident.
It was revitalised from my
kitchenware graveyard
and does a good job for me now.
If somebody knows the source of supply of this extremely useful equipment, please send a short e-mail to me.
Have a look on to your kitchenware graveyard, maybe 10-15 pieces are lying around there which you have in excess?
rollinator@eigude.de
Translator BL
Tags:Grip, Kitchen, Tetra Pak, Quadriplegic Tips, Tips and Tricks, Drink
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic, Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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Many quadriplegics don’t work anymore.
To improve one’s budget Poker or Skat are gambled quite often.
In order to better hold the cards,
a tool is used which was thousand fold field-tested
by the German disaster relief organisation (THW).
Translator BL
Tags:Grip, Technical Aids, Playing Cards, Quadriplegic Tips, THW (disaster relief organization), Tips and Tricks
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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Der Transport von Gegenständen aller Art ist uns Rollifahrern ein Gräuel, besonders wenn sie rund sind!
Oberschenkel sind gänzlich ungeeignet zur Beförderung von Kernobst.
Die hohe deutsche Ingenieurskunst hat sie nach jahrelanger Forschung herausgebracht:
Die Pflaumentransportbox fĂĽr Rollifahrer
Die Ähnlichkeit mit einem Eierkarton täuscht!
Hier geht’s,…ääh..fährt man zur 
Tags:Box, Grip, Technical Aids, Kitchen, Quadriplegic Tips, Tips and Tricks
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Comedy, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic, Tips and Tricks | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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I dare to state globally that there are no
wheelers which are not exempt from paying TV licensing fee
in Germany.
Due to this fact the program is probably that bad. I confess myself guilty as program Grinch.
Never mind.
We quadriplegics probably don’t pay any TV licensing fee just because we don’t manage it anyway to hold such a high gloss TV guide, let alone to pick the magazine up. Therefore it happens again and again that due to lack of knowledge we are watching a
scripted reality show
on private TV, instead of
The love life of grapevine snails
on the documentary channel.
With a big
binder clip
from the stationery shop around the corner, the basic right for
TV program knowledge
should be provided again.
Alternatively I can offer a do-it-yourself course with a hole puncher and a key chain.
Now you shouldn’t miss the next episode of Mc Gyver again.
Translator BL
Tags:BĂĽro, Grip, Technical Aids, Paper Clip, Quadriplegic Tips
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic, Selbstgebaute Hilfsmittel, Tips and Tricks | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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It is in the nature of the quadriplegics that we are spreading chaos all the time. Paper is lying around everywhere. To file the paper piles reasonably I am introducing the world’s first:
tie wrap fishing hanging files
Translator BL
Tags:Fishing, BĂĽro, Grip, Technical Aids, Tie Wrap, Paper, Quadriplegic Tips
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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I have made all the time
Crash tests
with my new telephones.
Quite robust these things.
A bit of double-faced adhesive tape and my beloved
non-slip reel
(see older blogpost) can work miracles….
Strong like a tiger, clever like Mc Gyver!
Translator BL
Tags:BĂĽro, Grip, Technical Aids, Telephone, Quadriplegic Tips
Posted in General, Everyday life aids, Technical Aids, Technical Aids for Quadriplegic, Selbstgebaute Hilfsmittel | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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Although I can’t open a yoghurt cup any more with my fingers, I can still smash it up!!!
In this
clamp
you can put cutlery.
This makes it possible, even without finger function, to eat independently with spoon and fork again.
Enjoy your meal!
The cutlery holder is available at medical supply shops, but can also be self-made rather easily. It can be individually adjusted with velcro tape.
Translator BL
Tags:Food, Grip, Technical Aids, Kitchen, Quadriplegic Tips
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