[Spridgets] News from England (no LBC)

Tue Mar 31 06:10:32 MDT 2020

Wow Ron,
Please let me know more about those products such as stair climbing and
wheel chair  too. Ron are you an engineer for Zoll or just sell parts to
Zoll? Sorry if I missed that part of the discussion.
Linda

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:44 PM Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Our actuator. Zoll sells the entire Autopulse  apparatus. We are
> developing actuators for weld stair climbing gurneys and wheelchairs as
> well.
>
> Ron Soave
>
> On Mar 22, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Wow Ron that is awesome! I was an EMT/Firefighter/Police Dispatcher
> between 76-87 and did CPR countless times on our rig. Is that device from
> your company or is only the actuator your part? Also I didn't know
> compressions could be given to a healthy person without putting them into
> de-fib. Please temps more.
> Your healthy guy getting compressions:
> https://youtu.be/t3_bVBAcMBQ
> Linda
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:50 PM Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Even better - https://youtu.be/cD1-KGzaRv8
>>
>> Ron Soave
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Here’s a brief one. Our actuator is expanding/contracting the CPR
>> compression strap. It has built in sensing to prevent patient damage.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/t3_bVBAcMBQ
>>
>> Ron Soave
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Hi Ron and Spridgiteers,
>> Ron can you tell me where I can find that link of the actuator you make
>> as I searched youtube for Zoll Autopulse and there are a lot of training
>> videos for CPR training but I don't think that is the actuator you speak
>> of. Ron keep up the good work.
>>
>> Also Ron is there anything that I can do in helping your company to get
>> more of these actuator's produced? I just want to help.
>>
>> Lastly sorry I haven't been checking with the group list in such a long
>> time, I've been pretty busy teaching (now virtually) and often use FaceBook
>> as images help more with our Spridget work.
>>
>> Updates here in the NYC/NJ area: I just received good news from my good
>> friend and teaching colleague that her  daughter is pregnant with the
>> family's first grandchild. The not so good news is she is a nurse in the
>> critical care pediatric unit in a Washington DC hospital, she is due in
>> September and the mom-to-be is young (20-something). Our new single mom,
>>  school nurse is also a part-time nurse in a local hospital, she said they
>> are begging for part time nurses to add more hours and she is nervous as
>> PPE is running very short.
>>
>> If you are like me you have loved ones across the globe, and many at
>> different ages and health conditions, mine are in NYC. I love this group
>> for the reality check as I always get great advice and above all happiness.
>> Please check in every so often to know you are all safe and well and ask
>> for help when needed. As for me I love tent/camping and I am gathering
>> leaves for what we campers use for you-know-what...............wink! Yes
>> I'll burry it when I'm done.
>>
>> Huge virtual hugs to all, be well,
>> Linda
>>
>> 62 California Sprite "Pinky"
>> 60 Bugeye Barn-find, Thank You Bill (Wm. Severin Thompson)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:10 PM Ron Soave via Spridgets <
>> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>
>>> We’re getting by here in Roscoe, IL, still playing with Spridgets and
>>> TRs and Spec Racers. Exponential growth is a dizzying thing, and I love our
>>> guy Dr. Fauci. He doesn’t care about politics.
>>>
>>> Fortunately, our small business has a department of defense component,
>>> and more importantly right now we are 35% medical  actuation, so we are
>>> hoping to avoid a shutdown. We’ve been asked to ramp up production of an
>>> actuator we make (YouTube search Zoll Autopulse; that’s our actuator in the
>>> guts of the machine), and we are rapidly working to help with ventilator
>>> demand. Conservative models show we will need 100,000 more than currently
>>> exist. I now know a person who has it, a healthy 40-something Colorado ski
>>> bum who air bnb’d her place to an Austrian who had it. She is just coming
>>> off 5 days of 102F to 104F fevers.
>>>
>>> Stay safe, all.
>>>
>>> Ron Soave
>>>
>>> On Mar 19, 2020, at 9:07 PM, WFO Herb via Spridgets <
>>> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Ditto what Mike said; much the same here.
>>>
>>> As a single guy, I eat out (not much of a cook).  With all restaurants
>>> closed, I may be shedding a few pounds.  Crazy!
>>>
>>> Here's the rub...Why is it we can't eat out or be in a group of more
>>> than 10 people yet the grocery stores are packed with hundreds of people?
>>> If the mean old virus is anywhere that's where it would be, right.
>>>
>>> Look at the numbers, things don't add up.  The liberal and the left has
>>> brought America to a standstill.
>>>
>>> Herb
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:43 AM Weslake1330 via Spridgets <
>>> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi List,
>>>>
>>>> Some (no LBC) news from England.
>>>>
>>>> As I told my kids (22 and 17) earlier I am 56 years old and I have
>>>> never seen supermarket shelves empty like I did earlier this evening.
>>>> Thursday is one of my normal shopping days, the other is Monday.  Call me a
>>>> snob but I shop in Sainsburys and the other shoppers looked like Asda
>>>> shoppers!
>>>>
>>>> Ever since 9/11 I have kept a diverse supply of canned and dried food
>>>> along with some water and a few cartons of UHT milk - it would keep the
>>>> family going for about 3 weeks.  I have a note of the use by dates and
>>>> routinely an old tin comes out of the cupboard to be used and a new tin
>>>> goes in the cupboard to replace it. Of course we do always have other food
>>>> in the 'regular' cupboard and we have a small freezer.  So, I'm constantly
>>>> able to remind the rest of my family about this in case they need
>>>> reassurance.  We have few elderly neighbours and we can share or shop for
>>>> them if they need us to
>>>>
>>>> We call it toilet paper and I think you might mostly call it toilet
>>>> tissue and not to put too fine a point on it it's what you wipe your arse
>>>> with.  In normal times we have occasionally had a martial row when the
>>>> person who was supposed to buy some let stocks expire.  Kitchen roll makes
>>>> a poor substitute and can block your household plumbing/outside drain and
>>>> sewer.  We have a reasonable stock at present but I'm old enough to know
>>>> that know is a good time to hang onto a few more old newspapers than we do
>>>> normally.  Of course I'm not sure we have any 'bulldog clips' but I think
>>>> we could manage without if necessary.  I guess other folk must have softer
>>>> backsides than I do or worry about seeing a reflection that includes
>>>> newspaper print when they look in the mirror.
>>>>
>>>> The train I take to and from work each day is now almost empty.  Most
>>>> of my office is working from home but I want to stay at work for as long as
>>>> possible.  IT hasn't been great for everyone and here at home while I have
>>>> broadband it runs on copper wire to the telephone pole outside my house and
>>>> most likely to the green 'GPO' box at the end of my straight and maybe
>>>> still copper to the exchange in the town centre.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have money worries but things can change fast and there are
>>>> many workers over hear in the wrong kind of job which now amounts to no job.
>>>>
>>>> The virus doesn't actually seem to kill that many people and I expect
>>>> to live but if I don't I'm insured.  I'm also 'saved' (from my sins) so
>>>> don't have to worry about where I'm going to end up - Heaven, or no-where
>>>> if I'm mistaken in my beliefs.
>>>>
>>>> So apart from what you can read at the BBC news site (which I think has
>>>> some bias) things are unusual here. I almost forgot - motor racing has been
>>>> cancelled and the churches have closed.
>>>>
>>>> So maybe by a little extra now and again before panic buying takes off
>>>> in your part of the world and if 'Bird Flu Pandemic' (practically the same
>>>> book as 'Corona Virus' isn't your sort of thing maybe give a helpful vote
>>>> to the positive reviews or read 'Rich Girl' - more of a gear head story.
>>>> 'Course even if I sell vast amounts of books and can actually afford to
>>>> cross the pond for a meet or an o-shit - there might not be many planes
>>>> flying.  And the winner in all this is - The Environment and the toilet
>>>> paper manufacturers - mostly likely short term for both.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Daniel1312
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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