[Blindtlk] looking to purchase a pencil cane tip

[T. Joseph Carter]

Another thought, you might want to try getting a replacement tip for 
your cane that takes the NFB metal tip replacements.  At least 
Ambutech and Revolution canes offer this option for sure, and I may 
have seen an Advantage cane or two that had them.

Older had a nylon that was tapped and threaded to take a screw-on 
metal glide.  These are smaller and therefore less useful than the 
NFB tips, and I found they had a tendency to unscrew themselves.  I 
can’t recommend them.  The last time I had such a cane, I put a 
machine screw into the tapped threads and stuck an NFB tip on that.  
It worked well enough.

Anyway, the advantage of the NFB tips is that they’re only $1.50 and 
they’re small.  It’s easy to carry a spare (I carry two or three 
myself), and nobody who sells canes will mistake what you want when 
you ask for an NFB metal tip.

I just looked at http://www.independentliving.com/ and found that ILA 
sells "their own" canes, which I recognize to be the new telescopic 
NFB canes printed with their logo in just three lengths.  They are 
not less expensive than NFB canes, but at least it is nice to know 
that there is not yet another cane type (or more importantly cane tip 
type) out on the market.

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:17:34PM -0700, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>There are several different kinds of folding cane out there with a 
>large assortment of cane tips for each.  WCIB, Advantage, and 
>Ambutech are just three I know about off the top of my head.  You 
>need to figure out what you’ve got before we can help.
>
>Ambutech graphite canes are distinguished by three features, a rubber 
>golf grip with a diagonal faux leather wrap, plastic rings on the 
>socket end of each joint, and the actual joints are aluminum.  
>Ambutech has two kinds of tips, a slip-on tip and a hook tip.  You 
>can know which you need based on what you’ve currently got.  But if 
>you haven’t got an Ambutech cane, that’s not going to help you.
>
>Independent Living Aids probably will have whatever you need no 
>matter who makes your cane, but you’ve got to know what to order.
>
>Joseph - KF7QZC
>
>
>On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:05:30PM -0700, Humberto Avila wrote:
>>Hello Everyone,
>>I know I asked this question earlier but, any advice on purchasing a cane
>>tip/cane tips, specifically pencil tips? where do they sell them? I looked
>>on the Independence market store and I didn't find any of those.
>>
>>Anyways...are pencil tips the ones that are used for folding canes, that
>>have a hook that you attached to the string of the cane? I need one of
>>those. hope this makes sense.
>>Humberto
>>
>>
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