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Stuart G

(38,418 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:45 PM Mar 2013

Did I need some fancy curtain cord oil???..Eh..not exactly.....

For some reason unknown to me...my curtains were making loud noises..and not moving smoothly..a couple of chords 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......(oh...and it is spelled cord?? I'll leave it for the spelling police...)

Once...years ago...I lubricated the paths and the chord 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..or was it green???..ech.. in this old container..and tried to lubricate the chord 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....????????????????
very cheap...and very usefull.................

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and you did not know that you would learn about this today....did you??????????????????from Stuart G.
that is all folks...................................................................................................

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