Wheelchair Scooter

I'm looking for a wheelchair or scooter for my mom, what should I look for?

Questions for you:

what does she want it to do? get her around her house/apt, or get her outside/around the neighborhood?
what are her medical issues?
what will she be toting around with her (oxygen tank, etc)?
does she WANT it, or NEED it?
& lastly, who will be paying for it?

Could give you a better answer once more info given.

2007-09-09 12:09:55 by SJBanda

This is a wheelchair scooter with a 6 horsepower Tecumseh engine. The frame was streched ten inches to fit the motor. It has a top speed of 18 MPH ...

I want to take my family to Disney World. I use this electric wheelchair (scooter) and I wonder if I could take it with me. I think it would be hard for my wife to push me around the parks in a conventional wheelchair. Do the airlines take this kind of chairs? Are the buses that take you from the airport to Disney equiped to take wheelchairs?

Airlines will carry your electric wheelchair or scooter for you as long as it has dry cell batteries and wont leak if it falls over.

Plus in the airport they will provide you with a wheelchair and assistance on and off the aircraft if you require, but you need to let them know what you require a few weeks in advance.

You can get a wheelchair accessible bus from the airport to the parks / hotels, but again you need to book in advance. The also have taxis that can take a chair.

Disney is great for accessablity, they have adapted rooms and all the transport have ramps and lifts, however some of the lifts are only manual chair size.

You can also hire wheelchairs and scooters in the actual parks and they are pretty reasonable priced.

You can't take scooters on to the rides, but if you need to be in a chiar they will give you one to use.

Have fun, its a great place and they are incredibly helpful.

2006-05-01 18:40:51 by debeyhaber

Fits all 2" Receiver, hitch class III or IV; Folding ramp can also be locked flat when not in use; Heavy duty folding hitch makes our carrier more rigid and stronger
Has a 3-1/2 inch safety rail; Includes an anti-tilt locking device to prevent the rack from wobbling
Total length of ramp when expended is 42 inch; Weight of ramp (gate) 16 lbs .easy to lift; Weight Capacity of Ramp: Up to 500 lbs

I want to rent a wheelchair or scooter in Singapore, I will be staying at the Marina Mandarin Hotel.

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2007-03-26 22:07:05 by laura g

Carrier folding design saves space
Self storing loading ramp saves time when loading and unloading.
Accommodates most power wheelchairs and scooters

My porch is 26 inches high, I weigh 170 lbs, and the scooter probably weighs less than 200 lbs

ADA requirements are a slope of 1" rise for every 12" of run. This makes for a huge ramp, in your case 26 feet long. That mild slope will allow a person in a wheelchair to make it up the slope unassisted.

That being said, you may not need that much. Electric chairs and scooters will list the maximum slope they can handle for a given weight. Since this is personal property, you may not be required to adhear to ADA requirements. I built one here in CA to get into a trailer. We were able to use a 2 in 12 slope (which cuts the length in half). If you have the room, use the lower slope, but that just can't happen all the time.

There are other requirements that need to be followed as well. Guard rails are required, and landings if the ramp must turn corners in order to get the length requred.

As far as materials, concrete is always the best, but it can be made from wood (attaching the guard rail/ hand rail at the bottom is tricky).

2007-08-22 15:20:01 by Lewis Y

how do i go about taking out the restrictor in an electronic wheelchair from walmart, I want to do this to make it go faster but i dont know how to do it please anyone help

There isn't a seperate restrictor. It's a setting in the motor control board. Since I don't know which particular motor control they are using, I can't tell you.

2007-09-07 04:27:40 by Kyle L