[Blindtlk] looking to purchase a pencil cane tip

[Sean Moore]

>From what i've heard I think Chris Park said that one that ILA sells is a 
rip off of his design. From what he said at NFB National in Orlando.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] looking to purchase a pencil cane tip


> 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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