[Spridgets] News from England (no LBC)

Tue Mar 31 07:26:27 MDT 2020

Super cool Ron!
Lin

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:45 AM Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I’m president of an aerospace company. Zoll is a customer.
>
> Ron Soave
>
> On Mar 31, 2020, at 7:16 AM, Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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