Gearing Up for New Bike Experience

Jeanne Khan of Glendale is anxious to locate some training wheels for an adult bike. We don’t like to saddle readers with such trivia, but can you help before she becomes completely unbalanced, or will Khan be convinced that she’s just spinning her wheels?

Carol Hoagland of Palos Verdes Estates is looking for a plastic liner for a wheeled laundry cart; cloth liners simply will not do for her. Can you help before she has to hang out her dirty linen in public, or is she all wet in her search?

Adell Benkert of South Pasadena would like to find the type of old-fashioned wooden swing glider in which two people face two others and propel the glider by pushing their feet against a moving platform. Can you help swing this deal for Benkert, or will she continue to have her ups and downs as long as the matter is up in the air?

Reader-to-Reader Help Line: Marcia at (213) 373-7679 is looking for a Hobart coffee grinder that holds a pound of coffee beans. Please give Marcia grounds for hope, and don’t let her wonder whether she may be full of beans in trying to locate this item . . . . Lois at (818) 363-0677 needs six dresser-drawer handles for an old bedroom chest ; the distance between the drilled holes is just under 4 1/2 inches. Please handle this request quickly and convince Lois that the matter is an open-and-shut case . . . . Jennie at (805) 481-4317 needs the blades to a 40-year-old Playtex hair cutter purchased at Sears; because this request is nothing to snip at, please keep a sharp eye out for these blades and get Jennie out of our hair.

Note: The Reader-to-Reader Help Line is only for items no longer available in stores. You must provide written permission to publish your phone number, so that readers may contact you directly.

More sources for flypaper: So far away from Redondo Beach that no fly could get there are Upland Feed & Fuel in Upland (from Lynette Mathewson of Ontario), Thrifty Drugs in Cathedral City (from Bob Stone of Long Beach), Temecula Mercantile in Temecula (from Susan Wood of that town) and San Diego Hardware, 840 5th St., San Diego (from Freda Cohen of San Diego). We also have a mail-order source: the Vermont Country Store, P.O. Box 3000, Manchester Center, Vt. 05255-3000. And a Laguna Beach reader says he is stuck with some 50-year-old spiral-type flypaper. Anyone who wants it should send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

For Elizabeth Plugge, who was looking for sealing wax, Karen Sullivan of Reseda has these mail-order sources: Lillian Vernon, 510 S. Fulton Ave., Mount Vernon, N.Y. 10550; Domestication’s Unique Merchandising Mart, Building 40, Hanover, Pa. 17333 and the Lighter Side, 35075 Automation Drive, Mount Clemens, Mich. 48043-4385.

For Joan Scott of Los Angeles, who needs thin, interchangeable cotton gloves, we have a few sources. Helen Shirley of Corona del Mar says Guild Drug stores carry these gloves. Another source is film-supply and beauty-supply houses, according to Lynn Geller of Los Angeles, Paul Gaddis of Glendale and Janet Sands of Playa del Rey. Specific addresses include: Schaeffer Photo & Camera, Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street, Hollywood; A & R Film Co., 6820 Romaine Ave., Hollywood, and Ball Beauty Supply, 416 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles.