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Stuart G

(38,419 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:54 PM Mar 2013

My story about my curtain cord lubricant....expensive...???welll ...not exactly..weird enuf???

already posted in the lounge..but making a second appearance here:
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For some reason unknown to me...my curtains were making loud noises..and not moving smoothly..a couple of cords had already
broken...due to wear..and I was thinking..maybe something was fundamentally wrong...you know...the townhouse was old..maybe 50 years..and so on and so on....and so on......

Once...years ago...I lubricated the paths and the cord with a substance........expensive.???
...................well........no.. actually....it was vasaline petroleum jelly.............................................
and old..yes very old container..of it...So..I took the yellow ugly stuff in this old container..and tried to lubricate the cord and the metal pathways that the thing runs on with...this old jelly and the curtain or shade chord......with it....
............actually it is a kind of lubricant...like an .oil.....and guess what..????????

MY curtains..well they are a kind of plastic thingys that moves back and forth..over rods.. like vertical things...well I don't know what they are called...well..they work better than they have in years...vasoline..petroleum jully....????????????????

you didn't know you would get this one????that's all folks..............................Stuart G.
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