Hi everyone,
The Smith-Kettlewell Technical file has great info for you. If you go
through their lessons, you will learn the techniques that'll start you with
a good grounding. Bill Gerey, wa6npc, Tom Fowle ?6ivg and Jay Williams
(don't think he ever got licensed) contributed to these articles. They were
all at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye research Center in San Francisco. I was
given the opportunity to spend a number of weeks there learning how to
solder and do basic electronic assembly, and just hang out with some very
inspiring blind guys. They used the techniques they write about to design,
build and test adaptive, useful equipment whose design was released into the
public domain after the development work was complete. there are some great
projects in the Technical File, such as an audio continuity tester, audio
capacitance checker, toy train whistle (electronic, cool sounding), audio
oscilloscope and a whole lot more that I can't remember.
I believe bill Gerey and Tom Fowle are still at Smith-Kettlewell.
73
Ron Miller
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On Behalf Of Clarence Williamson
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:19 PM
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Subject: Re: soddering?
Hi Chris and the group,
Yes, it is possible for a blind person to solder. I have been doing it =
for around 40 years. As far as special equipment, well I use a short =
piece of stainless steel tubing to hold the solder while I am soldering. =
=20
I didn't develop this method. It appeared in an issue of the braille =
technical file published by the Smith-kettlewell Institute. The issues =
are still available on the web.
I did a search for technical file and found a listing. =20 This magazine was
published from 1980 to 1998. It has many very good = projects. Also, there
is a very good series on learning electronics.
I hope this helps.
73s,
Clarence
On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Chris Harrington wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I was wanting to see if anyone has developed any sort of system for
> soddering? I have no useable vision, and was wondering if anyone had
> any types of guns or anything they use?
> Thanks,
> Chris Harrington
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