This morning I got an email from a local friend who reads this blog from time to time. She read yesterday's post and took note of our problem with the wood burning stove. She suggested I go on line to look for replacement parts for the stove. I hadn't even considered that! I figured that since the company who made the stove went out of business years ago, there wouldn't be an opportunity to find parts.
Nothing to do with today's topic.
Leftover sauerkraut made a great second (and third, and fourth) meal last week.
Well, I forgot about third party enterprises that collect parts and stock them. Et voilà ! I looked around and found the exact product I needed for our stove and ordered it. It'll be delivered to our house in two weeks. Total cost: €50 (about fifty bucks US). Thank goodness for friends and blogs!
Walt, my cordless angle grinder [used most to sharpen the ride-on blades] has died... the 18v battery is dead as a dodo, a polly-gone, defunct, won't charge and, stocks are "epuisé"at the makers.....
ReplyDeleteSo I was looking on the web for other stocks [also all finished].... and how to convert the grinder to a corded via a transformer. Giggle came up with something completely different.... a small French maker of adaptors to alter the battery fitting to another make....... using 3D printing.
I use a lot of Einhell tools... drill, rotavator, small mower for around the house, hedgetrimmer [for the brambles] and a pair of powered secateurs... all running off the same 18v batteries.... and the adaptor maker offers an Einhell 18v to my machine adaptor... like you, I don't like having to change something that is working!!
Very glad you managed to get the cast iron grill.... cast can be welded, but by those who "know"... and I am not sure that it would stand the heat, either.... we have a nicely patterned fireback that didn't and is now cracked from top to bottom... if we ever use it again, I will drill and bracket the two halves as the metal is solid and the break clean.
Haha, happy to hear you found a solution for the fire. Much cheaper than a new pellet stove!
ReplyDeleteWe have often gone online to find parts for things we have that are no longer made. It’s amazing what you can find.
ReplyDeleteFantastic!
ReplyDeletetim, Ken posted a photo where you can see the deformed grille. It's normally straight as an arrow, but after 18 years, it's far too curved to work properly. And now it's in two pieces. I'm hopeful that the replacement will work.
ReplyDeletejane, that's for sure!
mitch, truly!
judy, keeping fingers crossed! :)