A Chilling Search for a Yogurt Maker

Pat Bush of La Jolla would like to find a small soft-serve yogurt maker ; the commercial types she sees in yogurt stores are too big for her kitchen, and her ice-cream maker doesn’t do the job. Can you help soften the blow for Bush, or will she have to face the cold facts?

Sally Keaton of Altadena is looking for an establishment or a person who can put commercial buttonholes on hand-knitted sweaters. Can you see Keaton through this problem without working up too much of a sweat, or will we be pushing her button by accusing her of knit-picking?

For her husband, Anne Shelton of Arleta needs to find a product named Glasswick for cleaning eyeglasses . It comes in a container that looks like a small lipstick tube. Can you help Shelton’s husband perceive the light of day a bit more clearly, or will he perhaps pick up the wrong tube and really end up seeing red?

Reader-to-Reader Help Line: Suzette at (213) 530-5680 has a kitchen-cabinet emergency. She’d like about 25 cupboard and drawer pulls with herbs and spices embedded in them ; she last saw these about 20 years ago. Is there anything you can do to put some spice into Suzette’s culinary adventures? . . . Lydia at (805) 962-2972 badly needs the rubber gasket for a 40-year-old GE freezer that measures 26x49 inches and is 35 inches high. Is there any way somebody can put the seal of approval on Lydia’s frozen assets? . . . Lela at (213) 941-6598 needs the instruction booklet for an Acme Juicerator ; the company seems to have gone out of business. Please see to it that Lela no longer has to face these tight squeezes . . . Penny at (818) 794-9167 desperately needs a discontinued Clairol Skin Machine , which is a battery-operated complexion brush. Please take care of this complex matter without getting under Penny’s skin.

Note: The Reader-to-Reader Help Line is only for one-time items or for products no longer available in stores. And you must give us written permission to publish your telephone number, so that others may contact you directly.

For Corrine Brawley of Anaheim, who was interested in sleeveless sweater vests made by Milrank, we have a lot of vested interest. Bee Kirby of Arcadia mentions two Hinshaw’s stores that carry the item: one at 1201 S. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia, (818) 446-4681, the other at 8480 S. Quadway, Whittier Boulevard at Laurel Avenue, in Whittier, (213) 698-0611. Donald A. Wolf, Milrank vice president of sales and customer service, says the garments are made in Maywood, and if Brawley will call him at (213) 773-2588, he will give her names of other stores that carry them.

We even have a mail-order source: June Raisbeck of Glendale and Catherine Stanley of South Gate mentioned Old Pueblo Traders, Palo Verde at 34th Street, Tucson, Ariz. 85726-7800.

For T.S. King of Hollywood, who was hungering for a restaurant in the Los Angeles area that serves grilled razor clams, we have no sharp answers. Lola Robinett of Palm Desert says she just returned from Oregon and may have a source for King, if nobody else comes to his rescue down here. Robinett says that the Bell Buoy Crab Co., P.O. Box 46, Seaside, Ore. 97138, telephone (503) 738-6354, sells canned whole razor clams. She adds he should ask for dressed whole razor clams.

Suzanne Sim of Woodland Hills, who wanted the plug to a converter that uses regular home current and can also be plugged into the cigarette lighter of a car, should immediately make a dash for the nearest Radio Shack store. William Wiener of Torrance says Part No. 274-331 is the plug and it costs $1.29. The number for the cord that attaches to the plug is 270-1534; the cost is $5.49.