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    Default Diabilities.....? What?

    Disabilites?

    Mota Sickles - I mean I have had some "doozies" of crashes..... the 4 or 5 at 130 or 140Kmh - not (much of) a problem; cause the issue isn't how fast your going - it's what you hit and how you hit it......

    The one at nearly 170Kmh..... "Ohhhhhhhh that hurt."

    I recall it was some 6 weeks later that I timed it, that it only took me 1/2 an hour just to sit up in bed....

    That really hurt..........

    Anyway - I am not a believer in "disabilites" - I am a total believer in opportunities for creativity and innovation - marketable opportunites for creativity and innovation.

    I am also a big believer in "If the limitations are too small, then get bigger limitations".

    If the pox electric wheel chair is too slow, then get a faster wheel chair......

    Extend the wheel base, add suspension, put in a better engine..... and take all the back streets... (without the cops)

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    Obviously this is a forum for wheelchair improvements. And not everyone can be as lucky as you seem to have been.
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    Yep a 250cc motor would go nice under a wheelchair but can you imagine staring it at 3am when nature call's.

    Pulling up at the bowser to fuel up then heading in side to pay the bill Motoring through the local shopping mall leaving tyre marks from dropping the clutch

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    The traffic act on "electric motorised contrivances" is such crap..... the motor must be under 1/2 a watt and must not exceed 8Kmh or some thing like it.......

    I mean what if it is like 5Km to the local shops..... SURE the average wheels are NOT the best bet for a decent rate of knots, but what if they were reconstructed to run in house and street mode...

    8K max around the house - and a widening wheel base with suspension, and a decent bicycle type cruising speed of 30Kmh.....


    I have just been part of all these programs where "you people" get set aside in the vegetable patch - and I am thinking "That is like getting defined by other peoples definitions, and having to be force fed other peoples programs, and to achieve to the limitations of other peoples standards".

    It's that whole "disabilities trip"......

    I just don't see that any more.


    And the truth is most people tend to be embroiled in their own affairs, so the only thing that matters is not the approval of other people, it's knowing that I did my best, and then choosing to share it with the world on a take it or leave it basis.

    Hence - I am a total believer in opportunities for creativity and innovation - marketable opportunites for creativity and innovation.

    I am also a big believer in "If the limitations are too small, then get bigger limitations".

    I just won't accept myself being defined by the limitations and expectations of other people...

    It's like that vacuum cleaner nozzle.... the plastic one got stepped on and cracked - the cracks lead it to break, and so rather than get lost in the dilemma of getting another nozzle - I thought, "This is a wonderful opportunity to innovate and create"

    3 Things came out of this:

    1. I saw that in doing a "precision assembly" everything had to be more or less perfectly square and to size... - meaning some of the slightly weathered grades of pine are neither flat nor straight...

    2. That given that the final product was sized on the drilled holes being a neat fit on the wand, that in reality - with the intake of the nozzle leading to that, it's really not much difference between carving a vacuum cleaner nozzle out of lumps of wood, and carving a cylinder head or engine block, out of timber (the casting patterns)....

    and 3. The need for quality control - and accuracy, and precise shaping etc., needs to be inventoried.

    This means that the process needs to be subject to the Hanson 3 Form Formulae; of dividing the process up into 3 parts, Accept, Redefine and Upgrade (or reject).

    That means that all the process's that are acceptable, are defined as Accept.

    It means that all the process's that are kind of OK but either need to either be accepted or rejected based upon time, cost or circumstance etc., get scrutinised and reclassified.

    And all the process's that are genuinely in need to be improved - and it is genuinely of significant benefit to improve OR the process's are genuinely in need to be replaced or removed, then they get classified as rejected.

    In the end, one ends up with 2 heaps....

    So I found that with making the vacuum cleaner nozzle - that doing an inventory of the process can be applied in a written and "scientific format", that raising production quality, speed and accuracy, and the elimination of "difficulties".

    While I wouldn't do it for the nozzle, I can carry the lessons from that into every other thing I make.......


    So disabilities my ########.........

    I am not a believer in "disabilites" - I am a total believer in opportunities for creativity and innovation - marketable opportunites for creativity and innovation.

    I am also a big believer in "If the limitations are too small, then get bigger limitations".

    Today is the best day of my life - and I am going to use it "To the Max".

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    Some people with disabilities will always have a disability.

    The lucky people are those who have challenges - and rise to meet them.
    Regards, Bob Thomas

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