Hi Edd, thanks for your rejoinder to Mikes' message, I didn't see yours 
until just now. I've sent them both to Jack.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:00 PM
Subject: Fw: Making Braille Dials


> Don't know if this made it through.
> Ed  K7UC
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Making Braille Dials
>
>
>>I had the Drake twins for many years long ago but no Braille skirts.  If I
>>remember right there is 25 revolutions of the big knobs, frequency and I
>>just used the Xtal calibrator as markers which must have worked pretty 
>>well
>>so that may help if no marked skirts. On my job I made Braille scales to 
>>go
>>under the pots, knobs  and such as that but I don't remember how for sure.
>>I think I used a compass but can't remember a hundred years back.    I 
>>used
>>old flexible talking book records for the material which don't wear off 
>>the
>>dots.  Something to think about.  73
>> Ed  K7UC
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 6:36 PM
>> Subject: Making Braille Dials
>>
>>
>>>I remember reading in Braille Technical Press about how to make
>>> Braille dials using a stylus tied to a string, the other end of which
>>> was anchored to the center of a piece of plastic such as a coffee can
>>> lid.
>>>
>>> My attempts at creating them were pretty disastrous, even after Fred
>>> Gassoni reminded me of the technique during a visit to Jackson about
>>> 20 years ago.
>>>
>>> I forget who made those dials for the Drakes. I saw one T4X that had
>>> been fitted with them, and it was amazing to be able to read the
>>> analogue dials as good as any other ham.
>>>
>>> I also once saw a Heath HW16 that a guy had modified with a Braille
>>> dial for his wife. They were trying to sell it after she had upgraded
>>> to General, and did their best to persuade me to buy it. I did not,
>>> because I had already spent my radio budget. I don't know whatever
>>> became of that rig, and I have always wished I had gone ahead and
>>> bought it. Now, of course, I need an HW16, or any other additional rig
>>> for that matter, like I need another hole in my head!
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>>>
>>