Once a long time ago, I put “brailler repair” in the Google search box and
found quite a number of repairers around the country. Some were individuals
who repaired braillers privately for individuals and for school districts while
others like the prison system in Vacaville, California had a special program
where the prisoners were trained in how to repair braillers and only charged
for the parts with which to fix them. I did have a good experience with a man
in Baltimore, Maryland probably close to eight years ago, but don't ’now if
he’s still in business as he was a retired computer programmer at that time.
I’ve had very good luck with the Howe Press, and turn-around time was pretty
minimal. Of course, since they manufacture the braillers originally, they’re
sure to make the necessary repairs right from the start and send you out a
brailled line or two as a test of your repaired brailler. Will gladly look up
information as needed, though certainly I won’t know shipping prices. The best
I’ll be able to find would be phone numbers, but not all listings have phone
numbers.
Linda G.
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Vickie
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 1:40 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] to Kathleen
Does AFB American Foundation for the Blind have a contact for braille writer
repair? Seems like being in New York, they would provide at least referral
service for that kind of thing.
Vickie
From: Kathleen Polkabla <mailto:kathyann@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:04 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: hello from the Wayner
Well until I can get my computer set up I won't be able to share music. But if
it's some fine it will work with a Mac that might be good. Then I might be able
to hear music but I'm not really sure how to do it. And I might be able to get
some of the albums that I've lost two. And I've lost quite a few of them. Well
I thought things only break in threes but I guess for me it's number four. Now
it's the braille writer. I want to write down my credit card number in braille
and all the keys on my braille writer stop no matter what age I did. No I've
got to send it out. So actually I have to find somebody that can help me pack
it up and address it because I'm either going to send it to the American
printing House for the blind or to help press for repairs. If I send it to the
American printing House for cleaning and whatever it's $150. But if I send it
to Perkins or could be more could be less. The boy things happen at a very
inopportune time. I want to my class last night but a lot of it was visual.
Actually they were using voltmeters and stuff to measure different things and
of course I couldn't do it because I didn't have any talking meters. But that's
OK. And then I was worried about the braille writer and I forgot to call my
friend to tell him I was going to the class and I just left so hopefully he's
not going to be mad at me. I'll have to talk to him later and let him know that
I just had a lot of my mind. This morning I went shopping and got all that done
and came home and my knees were talking to me. My worker put everything away
and now she's downstairs doing the sheets. Actually I put a lot of the
perishables away and I put some of it away that she had to finish it. I told
her I was sorry about that but my knees just wouldn't let me finish it. I lay
down for a while and that was it. And I also got some money back on my energy
rebate. In the store people weren't going to give me the whole amount but then
they decided to. So I'm really happy I got my shopping done and everything is
all done and I'm sure glad it's over.
Kathleen Polkabla
On Feb 1, 2017, at 1:16 PM, Linda Gehres <ljgehres@xxxxxxx> wrote:
IfNancy’s idea takes hold and all can utilize it, the Wayner might just come
back into the fold! That would be awesome. I think we’d all love to be able
to share music again.
Linda G.
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Rosemarie Chavarria
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 5:54 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: hello from the Wayner
I think that was part of it. He said the list was turning into a chat group but
I told him we still share music from time to time as well as blindness-related
articles.
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Devon Wilkins
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 5:47 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: hello from the Wayner
Was it the high volume of traffic that caused him to leave in the first place?
Devon.
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Rosemarie Chavarria
Sent: January-31-17 7:42 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: hello from the Wayner
Hi, Karen,
I'll see if I can talk him into coming back. That would sure be neat if he
could.
Rosie
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Karen Delzer
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:15 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: hello from the Wayner
Sure wish he would,Rosie. Sure miss him. Hi to him from us, okay?
Karen
on 02:06 PM 1/31/2017, Rosemarie Chavarria said:
Hi, everyone,
I talked to Wayne on the phone and he said to tell everyone hello. I don't know
if he'll come back to the list or not. I'm trying to get him to though.
Rosie
