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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Sherman A1

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17. Sounds like mine a few years ago

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #16)

Sat Jan 19, 2013, 04:45 PM

Jan 2013

fixed the linkage with a coat hangar and it works fine. I don't know if that will help, but best idea I can offer without knowing more and my very limited mechanical knowledge.

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Before you trash it, wear it out [View all] Sherman A1 Jan 2013 OP

I still wear a shirt I bought in Hong Kong in the early eighties. MADem Jan 2013 #1

Every situation is different Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #2

When we're done with clothes, they become handy dandy rags for use around the house. MADem Jan 2013 #3

Great ideas! gateley Jan 2013 #5

I've mentally scanned my closet -- you've got me beat by a decade or two! gateley Jan 2013 #6

It's worse than that, actually. MADem Jan 2013 #9

As I was donning my "nightshirt" teeshirt last night, I was thinking that I must have had this gateley Jan 2013 #4

Old socks make good wiping down rags and mittens Kaleva Jan 2013 #7

Socks and underwear usually cannot be passed on but everything else can and should. jwirr Jan 2013 #8

I use those old socks as dust rags. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #10

Aluminum Foil is good to clean the Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #11

LOL---the "now worn bristles" or the wire brush! Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #12

Oh, I have a few more wire brushes Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #13

My lawn mower is a 1981 model, so you win.... Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #14

My SP broke down a year ago and I Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #15

I wish it was just the belt. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #16

Sounds like mine a few years ago Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #17