[optacon-l] Re: Rubber Reading Pads and Suitable Replacement Materials

  • From: "Mark Blier" <mblier@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:45:10 -0700

Hi, All,

I went to Ace Hardware and got a hunk of smooth rubber.  Works great!

Mark Blier

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Effie Boyd" <starlyte@xxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Rubber Reading Pads and Suitable Replacement Materials


I still have my rubber pads that I used when I got my Optacon.



God bless you,
Effie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Armand Bakalian" <asbakalian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 7:49 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Rubber Reading Pads and Suitable Replacement Materials


> The Optacon, without a doubt is a wonderful device, however, if we can't
> put our reading material on a suitable reading surface, all is lost. I 
> have
> some old rubber reading pads, both computer printout sized and the eight
> and a half by eleven size that have dried up and gotten brittle over the
> thirty years of their life. What rubber materials are people using to keep
> their reading material from moving around? At one time I contacted rubber
> manufacturering companies and tried to explain what I needed. The samples
> they sent did not do the job. What sources for rubber reading pad 
> materials
> are out there that will grip our materials? My inquiring mind wants to 
> iknow.
>
> Armand Bakalian
>
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