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Repair manual for a Takara Belmont electric hydraulic chair base? I need a repair manual and/or parts diagram for a Takara Belmont electric hydraulic chair base model 180. The chair I have is 15-20 years old, but it is still manufactured. I haven't been able to get one from the manufacturer. I know this question doesn't fit in the 'cars and transportation' category, but this is the best one 'hydraulics' fit.

daddyporky@verizon.net replied: "on e bay a man sells manuals in wisconson.. what is wrong with the chair. i could tell you how to repair it.. well i will take a stab in the dark.. all hydrallic work with a o ring and a support that holds the o ring in place... if its leaking or wont hold up its the o ring.. go to a fork lift dealer or shop take the chair with you.. and they will match up the ring .. a hydrallic repair man has a box with about 50 sizes of o rings. ok."

How to stop chairs from rolling in classroom? I would like to pick your brains about some chairs I have in my classroom at the high school where I work. The chairs are rolling office chairs and the floor is linoleum. The wheels can be removed, but, without the wheels, the chair is not usable to sit on because the pole in the center of the chair base comes down farther than where the wheels are attached. There is no money in the budget for new chairs (there are 33 of them), rugs or cushions under the chairs, or to carpet the room. The wheels are made of plastic. There is a small metal axle between the two sides of a wheel leaving space between them. The top half (but not the sides) of the wheel unit is covered by a plastic outer shell. Anyone have any ideas? Thank you!

Paintings P replied: "You look like a hot teacher :) Could you not put screws through the gaps in the wheels to stop them rolling? Or.. wrap rubber bands or string around the axle to stop the wheel from spinning so fast? Or.. get a blowtorch ( $5 from any hardware store ) and melt the plastic onto the axle to prevent any further movement."

ImOuThEreUdigg!! replied: "have a fundraiser"

handerande replied: "Don't remove the base, just the wheels. You should be able to remove just the wheels with a little prying,"

sensible_man replied: "If you have a wood shop in your school, talk to the shop instructor about making some pieces of square wood about 3/4" thick with a hole drilled into them. Make the hole slightly smaller than the wheels and place the wheels into the holes. This will suspend the wheels slightly off the floor and prevent them from rolling around but allow them to be slid into place."

k9mpgsd replied: "go to a local tennis court and get some old balls. Cut a large X in them and slip them over the wheels and creat a cover. You can alos do this for regular chairs in the classroom to keep noise down."

What exercises can a group of over 50s do? I'm 15 and I'm doing a Sports Leadership course. In one of my assignments I have to plan and teach a group of over 50 students. I need some advice because this is my first lesson plan and the first time I've conducted a lesson. I need to know what kind of exercises they can do. I've thought of gentle aerobics and chair based exercises but I need to go into more depth. I'm really unsure of what to teach them! I just need some advice and tips from real people and not a stupid machine (because all the websites aren't helping me out). Can you help me please? I would also appreciate it if you explained to me what the exercises are and how they work because I'm not particually bright and I don't have a good general knowledge :) oh yeah, I've got to improve thier strength, flexibility and endurance. Hey I wasn't being insulting to elders, not at all! I've been brought up to respect my elders and I do! It's just that the group that I've got to teach have health problems. I wasn't saying that all elderly people are unfit! Please don't take offence! I wasn't trying to be nasty. And it's the truth, I'm not very bright. Really I'm not. I'm not stupid or anything, I get good grades but I don't have a good general knowledge. Please don't take this question the wrong way! I'm not trying to get credit for your ides. I've thought of many of the ideas you've all suggested but I'm young and not very experienced at leading sports so I wanted to ask other people. Please don''t think I'm sponging off you! I'm not like that!!

tygger replied: "Pilates or other low impact exercises would be good."

Jen replied: "step classes are fun! or do something with dancing...then you can partner them up!"

kick it replied: "I attend a class in Switzerland for heart patients. We do low impact aerobics to music. Alot of stretching excercises, we play hockey,volleyball, and co-ordination excercises, with batons, hoola hoops etc... Have fun with it..."

hazylady replied: "Have you considered Aquarobics, its very beneficial and its a gentle safe form of exercise, ideal for older people, especially ladies as there is not to much strain on joints and ladies in particular can have brittle bones after 50. Found a couple of websites you can look at but when I did a search I found loads Hope this helps.. (I am 50 and I love it)"

GingerGirl replied: "Resistance band training would be good. The bands allow a more fluid movement for the joints and muscles. It also enables the person to adjust the resistance by shorting or lengthening the band and aren't constricted to a set weight as they would be with dumbells. Also, resistance bands can be used standing, seated or even from the floor so just about everybody can find a comfortable position. The bands are also used to work most major muscle groups - chest, back, biceps, triceps, shoulders, quads, glutes, outer thigh and inner thigh. A simple routine can be put together using the bands including a light cardio warmup and stretching cooldown."

Bella replied: "running, playing games-volleyball, soccer-swimming?? Maybe stretches and jumping jacks. You could do like step ups, where they step up on a stool, then step back down at a good pace. u could do pushups and crunches. also, duck duck goose-(alot of running) parachutes...and..this one game, where everyone finds a partner and hook arms, one person is it and one person is running away from it...then...the runaway hook arms w/ someone else before it tags them and the person on the other side of the chainhooks off and runs away from it, if they gae taged, they turn around and swith places-(it is the runaway and the runaway is it) Then the runaway hooks onto a chain, the opposit person breaks off, they become the runaway, and so on...IT"S FUN and it can last a long time! Another game is where half the people get in a circle and the other half get in a line facing the circle...the circl peeps get a ball and you see how many times the ball can go around, while the people in the line do a relay around the circle..then switch teams see which team can pass the ball around the circl the most times!!!!!"

papabeartex replied: "U're not so bright? Who r u kidding u're so smart that u actually want us to do ur work for u, shame on u. If ur teacher gave u an assignment it was for u to research it for ur self and not get the answers from us older folks. Do u think us so stupid to fall for ur "not to bright" game. Listen kid I'm 51 yrs. old and I don't do "chair exercises or gentle aerobics". I still roller skate with my grandkids, I run, I play softball, basketball, swim, hike, campout, horseback ride, water ski, and enjoy sex. I'm not half dead and neither r many of my older friends. We, I take offense to ur trying to get by on someone else's credit do ur own research if u go to a senior center u might find out that many of them r still very healthy and do their own thing. Just cuz we r fifty or over doesn't mean that life is over or near it. Good hunting."

How to make a vehicle move? hi everyone, Does anyone know how to choose an electric motor for a small vehicle like an electric wheel chair base on the torque requirement.The vehicle that i want to build have an overall weight of 150kg. What do i do first? i had an initial idea where if i specify the speed of the vehicle say v m/s, then i can just simply use the equation P=Fv,where P is the power from the engine,F is the frictional force. is this correct? how about inertial force? Is there a good website for me to analyse this problem?

ktopping23 replied: "Yes there is..try!! It really works wonders...this one time..at band camp, we had to look upa classical piece of music that was not in our music books and sure enough!!!! I found what I was looking for..ta da!!! So you go try it out and lemme know how it goes... Chao!!"

John replied: "you also need to find stall torque, no load speed these along with your motor power should help you find the motor you want"

Engineer-Poet replied: "To get the torque requirement, you need a better analysis. Torque = power/speed. You can meet your torque requirement by varying the transmission ratio between the motor and your wheels (half the torque at double the speed is the same power). What you really want to find out (and you'll have to do this yourself) is two things: 1. What kind of starting/holding force do you need? This will include all the drag forces of the motor and reduction train, to the static rolling resistance of the wheels AND whatever surface they're on (like deep-pile carpet?), PLUS the force from any slope you might be trying to climb. 2. What power do you need? Worst case, what speed do you need to go against how much drag/gravity? All the drivetrain drag figures into this too. Just specifying the problem well enough will probably show you your answer, or most of it. That's pretty much how it works in engineering; you can't get the answer until you have learned how to ask the right question!"

High chair for active baby that also tends to slouch? He's 25 lbs at 11 months, so he's not small. But in his older model Peg Perego, the seat depth is so long that he slouches as there is only a harness that goes between his legs. Wondering if other parents have found success with using a high chair that has the plastic piece at the crotch to prevent sliding (is it far in enough to shorten the seat depth considerably). If so, can the plastic piece be moved forward as the baby's butt grows? Our other issues is that the footrest should be height adjustable ideally as he likes to kick and tries to stand on our friend's European model! He also bounces a lot and in the wooden restaurant ones, he can move it along the carpeted floor! So the chair base has to be wide, perhaps needing to be H style like the Peg Perego vs. 4 legs like a regular chair.

Emma'sMommy TTC replied: "Emma's reclines and it was cloth padding that sort of wraps around. It also has the plastic bar in between her legs. She does not slouch in it, but I have noticed her slouching in regular high chairs. Her is evenflo."

rainwriterm replied: "Something that may work well for you is to get a booster chair instead of a high chair. These usually aren't nearly as deep as some high chairs, which should fix the slouching problem. Since you fasten the booster onto a normal kitchen chair that would also eliminate the problem of him trying to use the foot rest to stand up, and should make it more difficult for him to move the chair. Your son may also benefit from a hook on table type of high chair like these. "

What or who is Joan Clarks "An Audience Of Chairs" based on? My grandmother who has been estranged from the family for 30 years apparently lives in a farmhouse in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. My mother lent me the book and she believes the Joan Clark may be an acquaintance of her mother. I'm very curious! Could someone please tell me who the book was based on, or was it all fictional?

Tequila replied: "Clark may have been inspired by contact with her own relatives. Her grandmother drowned herself. "Clark notes that the idea for An Audience of Chairs came in part from her own familial legacy of depression, with which she struggled at one time and which led a grandmother to suicide. 'One of the things I was interested in was exploring the idea of family pride, which was abundant in my family. So much pride, in fact, that many of them refused to admit that their grandmother had committed suicide.'" Scroll down to the bottom of the linked page. "I know a number of people who have varying degrees of bipolar disorder, a condition that I think is familiar to many, if not to most of us. The human psyche is subject to highs and lows and that fact, along with questioning what is sane and what is insane, has long fascinated me. Most of what I've learned about the disorder has come from observation . . . " The author is definitely familiar with Cape Breton, so she may have met your grandmother. "Well, part of my childhood was spent in Cape Breton and a large part of my imagination lives there; also living in Newfoundland I have often used the ferries. My father, Bill MacDonald, was a Cape Bretoner who was very proud of his Scottish heritage, as am I. . . ." (See foregoing link.) If you are considering getting in touch with your grandmother or writing to the author about this, I wish you good luck!"

Is Anyone Else Curious why so Many Clinton Dems got Big Jobs at Fannie Mae - Jamie Gorelick - as Deputy AG made the wall extra strong so that the CIA could not warn the FBI that terrorists were IN THE US. She became Vice Chair (based on what resume????) of Fannie Mae and earned $26 MIL. - Franklin Raines - Clinton budget director. First black CEO of big corp. in the US. Became CEO of Fannie Mae and earned over $50 MIL. Had to return $20 MIL and RESIGN because of false accounting at Fannie Mae. Wasn't Jamie Gorelick's main job at Fannie Mae to make sure that the executives gave a lot of money to Dems and the DNC?

Probs 7 replied: "No"

thedude jr replied: "is it the same reason the republicans go to fannie mac even when they are out of politics they are so brainwashed that they just go to the other side out of habit"

Curtis replied: "Yes I'm curious, please tell me more."

lafemmnikita replied: "This has been going on so long I just dont care anymore. I'm just going to vote Libertarian."

right you are ken replied: "I presume it would be the same reason for this administration, return of loyalty or favors. Between people like Wolfowitz and Goodling and Gonzales and Chertoff to name a few, this administration is no better. They're all thieves who move from government into executive levels of business or executive levels of business into government and back again."

How Big is Your Govt Check replied: "it's for donations"

Medical professionals only...Could it be a blood clot? PICTURES appreciated!? Ok, I may be scaring myself. I have this tiny purplish spot on my ankle bone. It's about half an inch x 1/8 of an inch. It's flat and asymmetrical. I always sit cross legged on my computer chair, and often sit on that same foot, so my ankle bone rests on the chair base. When I pull the skin, it looks to be a coloring on the skin itself, as it moves when I pull the skin one way or the other. I just freak out, cuz I know my foot probably takes a beating, cuz I also sit with my feet up on the rungs under my chair a lot. I just wonder if it were a blood clot, would it really move with the skin as I pulled it? I'm only 31, and I don't take any birth control or other clotting meds. I do sit a lot when I work, and spend a lot of idle time on the computer at home for long stretches...so this is what gets my wheels turning. I'm just concerned, but not enough to pay a copay to have it checked. Just wanted an opinion on what a clot really looks like. Any pics of a blood clot appreciated!

dumplingmuffin replied: "no i can assure you its not a blood clot,they usually occur in the calf and cause swelling and pain,have seen loads and none like yours"

Sincere Riley replied: "No. This does not sound like a blood clot. It sounds like a minor bruising caused by your sitting the way you described and it rubbing on the chair. Bruising is bleeding under the skin and that's why it is blue. You usually cannot "see" a blood clot. It is sometimes "felt" but mainly determined by symptoms like pain, feeling tired in the particular limb (or body) and other symptoms, depending on where the blood clot is located. So don't worry about the blood clot. But I can tell you that most likely, unless you change the way you sit, that discoloration you see "can" get worse and be there for a very long time from the constant pressure on that area. Just cosmetic annoyance."

Rene B replied: "Could be a birthmark which you haven't noticed before."

Chrissy replied: "As much as I wish we could, you can't see a blood clot through your skin. If you are concerned about blood clotting, talk to your doc at your next visit. There are blood tests that can be done to see if you're at higher risk for clotting. OH and smoking is another risk factor for clotting, so hope you don't smoke :)"

dlmissinglink replied: "you would not be able to see a blood clot and they would occur in the calf with pain and sweeling, not on the ankle"

Would you buy these cars if they were to come into production? I have come up with a few ideas and i want to see your opinion. The Chrysler Town and City: A compact version of the Town and Country and very similar to the Mazda5. This car would replace the Pacifica as the main crossover in Chyrslers lineup. The car fits 6 adults comfortable with 3 rows of captain chairs. BASE PRICE: 18,980 PERFORMANCE: 180 HP v6, 220 HP v6 MAIN RIVALS: Mazda 5, Chevy Orlando, Kia Rondo The Chyrsler Copperhead: similar to the caddy xlr, the copperhead is just a luxofied viper for the same price. The only loss is the performance as the engine drops from 600 hp to a mere 420 Hp. So what? If you like luxury and fast thrills. PErfect car.! BASE PRICE: 90,000 PERFORMANCE: 420 HP v8 MAIN RIVALS: Cadillac XLR, BMW 6 series, Jagaur XK Buick Encruise: This 5 passenger SUV is not just a smaller Enclave. Its tons more fun and still provides the great Buick Luxury. Despite its swooping roofline, there is tons of room in here. BASE PRICE: 43,000 PERFORMANCE: 350 HP v8, 400 HP v8 MAIN RIVALS: Cadillac SRX, Bmw x6, Mercedes R Class Jeep Everest: Love your jeep thrills? But you have a family of 6? Check this out. Delivering the same fun as a Wrangler in the body of a Durango, the Everest has an advanced off roading system combined with an advanced safety system. So you can have fun and be safe on the hill. BASE PRICE: 33,000 PERFORMANCE: 320 HP v8 MAIN RIVALS: Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Trailblazer, pretend u have all the money in the world

micahyu1112 replied: "i would buy every car except the copper head. the copperhead sounds too expensive. other wise that is a great deal!! -micahyu1112"