She Can’t Put Her Finger on a Source

Connie Weidenhamer of Los Angeles would like to get her fingers on some Seal-Cote (actually she would like to get the Seal-Cote on her fingers); this is a clear nail top-coating that she says is superior to any other product she’s used--and she can’t find it any longer. Can you help before it’s nail-biting time at the Weidenhamers, or will it be clear that nobody is about to finger a source for her?

A Los Angeles reader named Madeline has been unable to find Shadow Line pajamas , at least not in the larger stores. Can you help, even though you may have to shade the facts a bit, or will Madeline have to be content with the naked truth about night life?

A Fullerton reader named Jean needs a 24- or 25-inch light- or medium-weight separating zipper for a hand-knit sweater (preferably in medium blue ); none of the notion stores she’s contacted carries that length. Can you help with a source without working up a sweat, or will Jean end up having to pull the wool over her own eyes, because there’s no store to zip over to?

Last year in Texas, Barbara Boss of Arcadia saw a walnut stool that could be folded down for use as a ladder and also as a mini-ironing board ; now she wonders if that item is available in California. Can you help before Boss either gets board with the idea or starts climbing the walls, or will she have to go deep into the heart of Texas to resolve that iron-ic situation?

Reader-to-Reader Help Line: For a Christmas gift, Roberta at (818) 846-1493 would like a copy of the book “The Magic of Neon,” which is no longer in print. Can you light up Roberta’s life, in addition to her Christmas tree, especially because she can no longer go buy the book? . . . Craig at (818) 340-8635 would love to obtain copies of two defunct magazines, L.V. Pizzaz and L.V. Star, that contained pictures of a Las Vegas show called “Jubilee.” Please see to it that this doesn’t become a show stopper for Craig. . . . Lenore at (714) 621-0015 needs the deep-well cooker for a Chambers gas kitchen range, which is at least 40 years old. If you stepped on the gas and got Lenore cooking on all four burners again, you’d certainly be contributing to her well-being. . . . Le Nore at (619) 727-4214 is looking for four dinner plates in the discontinued Poppytrain Bandero pottery pattern by Metlox. How about seeing to it that Le Nore’s kitchen doesn’t go completely to pot?

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Edith Land of Burbank, who was looking for a place that converts photographs into jigsaw puzzles, need no longer be puzzled. Sarane Van Dyke of Los Angeles says to go to a Thrifty Drug store; she recently had one photograph “puzzled” there. And William R. Downs of Rancho Palos Verdes says his brother, who is retired, makes these puzzles on eight-inch paneling in various sizes; contact H. A. Downs, 3509 5th St., Port Arthur, Tex. 77640, (409) 982-0015.

Other out-of-town sources: Susan G. Walters of Redlands writes that Bits & Pieces, 1 Puzzle Place, B-8016, Stevens Point, Wis. 54481, converts photographs into heart-shaped or rectangular puzzles for $14.95, or into 16x20-inch posters for $59.95; their telephone number is (800) 544-7297. Ellen Jurado of Long Beach says York Color Labs, 400 Rayon Drive, Parkersburg, W. Va. 26102, makes round, heart-shaped, rectangular and other puzzles at prices ranging from $7.95 to $15.95. And V. Schumacher of Yorba Linda and another reader wrote that DLM Products, 3005 Central Ave., Waukegan, Ill. 60085, will enlarge a photograph into an 11-inch-diameter jigsaw puzzle for only $3.98.

In addition, these mail-order houses convert photographs into jigsaw puzzles: Boston Proper, One Boston Plaza, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 10551-7070 (from Francene Measley); Walter Drake, 58 Drake Building, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80940 (8x10 for $5.99--from Mrs. George C. Norton), and Miles Kimball Co., 41 W. 8th Ave., Oshkosh, Wis. 54906-0002 (8x10 for $7.98--from Grace Hampton and Reba Adams).