[Blindtlk] Advantage Canes

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

I used to have Revolution folding canes, and while I find them 
useful, I find the NFB folding canes a little lighter and easier 
to hold.
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Wolf via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:17:18 -0800
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Advantage Canes

Advantage (Revolutions) are great canes, and yes, lighter than 
ambutech.  They are slimmer.  They have finesse by comparison.

Their number in the U.S.  is 800-382-5132.

I.D.  canes are much slimmer.  They aren’t durable like a regular 
cane.  An I.D.  cane can break in uses that you’d otherwise “meet 
the landscape” with a regular one.  Otherwise, they are a slimmer 
similar format as a white cane.  I do, however, keep one 
permanently in my rollaboard suitcase for a backup.  I learned to 
do this in a hotel doorway in Arizona once, when I caught my cane 
and broke it while rolling the big hotel luggage dolly through.

 The only place on the road trip home where we could find a cane 
had one that was too long and heavy.  And they were overpriced.  
I wouldn’t have kept it, so I did the next two days without a 
cane.  That was fun.  I keep my advantage I.D.  cane with a 
marshmallow roller tip.  Although this adds weight, it makes it 
usable in a pinch, without the shocks that catching cracks would 
do with a pencil tip.  I just have to keep in mind that it is 
somewhere between delicate and fragile.  I don’t think an I.D.  
cane would support a ball - too much mass for the slim shaft.  
Hope this helps.

Some of you have probably read my posts.  Sorry for the repeat if 
so:

I have spatial as well as vision issues, so I do use ambutech - 
they are a battle-ax.

 If you have a graphite ambutech, five or six section folding, 
that is a couple of years old, that’s the model I prefer.  I’d 
purchase a brand new currently improved model and have them ship 
it to you in trade, if you were willing.  Let me know if you are 
interested.  Size:  54, 56 or 58 inches.  Thanks friends.  One 
person has responded.  We’re working on it now.  I’d like to get 
one or two more for when I break or lose one again!

Best,
Peter




On Mar 6, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Danielle Ledet via blindtlk 
<blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Would somebody give me the number to Revolution Enterprises? My 
darn
 computer won't switch to the webpage.  And, what is the diff 
between
 the folding and ID models? Also, do you all recommend any other 
canes
 I haven't tried if this does not work for me? I had an Ambutech 
but
 got rid of it because it was just too heavy.  It was a graphite, 
but
 you all have been saying Advantage ones are lighter although 
they are
 graphite as well.  I needed a rollerball tip but I ordered the 
wrong
 thing with my AMbutech; the marshmallow tip.

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