[access-uk] Re: LONG CANE PROBLEM

  • From: carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:06:10 +0100

Yes, I had my own methods too, but won't go into those right now! (Grins!]
There's always a Good Samaritan willing to take you home!:)

----- Original Message -----
From: john gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Monday, 11 August 2014 11.03 am
Subject: [access-uk] Re: LONG CANE PROBLEM

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>
> hi carol i remember once when my cane snapped i used an old pedal rod out of 
> a rubbish piano to get me back to albrighton hall in the early seventies god 
> knows what collour it was but i amanaged to hitch a lift back off the elsmere 
> road smile. 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, 11 August 2014 10.55 am
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: LONG CANE PROBLEM
> 
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>
> Hi Mary,
> 
> Well, that's the state of mine--one joint now won't fold at all! It's just 
> such hard work and I consider this a fault, even if others don't, since the 
> whole idea of a fold-up cane is that it does just that!
> 
> Thanks to those who suggested various lubricants. To be honest, if I'd been 
> told this was necessary for a while after purchase then I'd probably do it 
> but now, having had all these problems, I'm not prepared to try to solve this 
> one, perhaps only to find that I don't manage it anyway.
> 
> I didn't know that QAC actually sold canes, but then I had the same cane for 
> over 30 years and didn't need to know since most of the time I worked a 
> dog!:) Do they sell different makes/types to those sold by the RNIB? I 
> thought all the ones the RNIB sold were AMBUTech. That's how much i know, or 
> rather, don't know! Perhaps someone will put me straight!:)
> 
> Thanks for everyone's feedback. At least I can tell the RNIB it's not just me 
> that has had a problem.
> 
> Carol P
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mary Tottle <mary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:  access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: 
> Date: Monday, 11 August 2014 10.08 am
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: LONG CANE PROBLEM
> 
> >
> >
> > Hi Carol,
> > 
> > Mike and I had the same problem.  We decided to buy new canes from CAQ 
> > which are fine.  Whatever we tried with the RNIB canes just came to 
> > nothing and in the end we just could not fold them at all.
> > Regards
> > Mary
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