Post by vintage on Dec 10, 2018 14:13:13 GMT -8
Low-tech invention
In the first photo, see the pole with a nail in it? In South America, clothes vendors daily set up their stalls by hanging merchandise much higher up than they can reach, using a pole,...sometimes a pole with a hook, other times a pole with a simple nail in it. They get really good at this.
I have a shelf up near the ceiling in my interior hallway. I installed that shelf myself before I was SCI. Being currently without an aide, and wanting to put a seldom-used item on that shelf, I decided to turn my frustration into a success story.
I attached a plastic pipe support (a hook that has a nail) to the end of a 3’ wooden dowel. I used a long twisty tie from the grocery store around the nail and the dowel. Then I cut pieces of duct tape in half, longwise, and wrapped the whole thing in duct tape.
Inside the upper part of the boxed item, I placed a small, squarish, perforated plastic reinforcement backing. The plastic was from a watter bottle. I used an awl to punch the holes in the plastic reinforcement and in the cardboard box. Then, using awl thread, I sewed the red plastic ring saved from the neck of a plastic milk bottle onto the top edge of the box.
It worked on my very first try! I was able to put the boxed coffee-maker right where I wanted to store it,...’way up high on that shelf. And I didn’t need an aide to put it there nor should I need her to get it back down again.
That’s the story of my low-tech invention — copied from South American clothes vendors who have used it for decades.
