Reader Is Up to Her Teeth in the Search

Estelle Goldstein of West Los Angeles would like to get hold of some of those plastic keys that are used to wind up the bottom of toothpaste tubes . They came in various colors. Can you help before she hits bottom, or will Goldstein be down the tubes before she’s ever keyed up?

For a walk-in closet, Fay of Pasadena wants to buy dehumidifying crystals locally ; she now gets them from a gift catalogue. Can you help clear the air for Fay, or will it be crystal-clear that this is no time to get hung up on this pursuit?

John Tracy of Westlake Village needs the replacement spring for an Eames-style chair that permits the chair to swivel. Can you help put some spring back into Tracy’s life, or will he be the type of chair-man whose views can never deviate from the center?

Reader-to-Reader Help Line: Doris at (213) 697-8480 is looking for plastic photo sheets (for a Fotomat album) that are no longer on the market ; specifically, she needs 36 pages of four-pocket or three-pocket sheets. Make sure that things are again picture-perfect in Doris’ home. . . . William at (818) 706-0622 would like to find a glass-topped oak end table, Model 7702, formerly made by Pacific Motif of Santa Fe Springs. Please don’t table this request and put an end to our reader’s search. . . . Muriel at (213) 540-5278 needs the chord number slide for a 1958 Hammond chord organ Model S6 ; even the manufacturer no longer has the part in stock. Please strike the right chord in Muriel’s heart and give her some organic soul food. . . . Janina at (818) 836-9612 needs dishes and mugs for a dinner set named Carnival by Kato Kogel and formerly made in Japan. Please see to it that Janina can soon have a small carnival in her dining room.

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.

Here’s another Jafra consultant, submitted by Liz Ruff of Calabasas: Lenore Vasquez of Westlake Village; her telephone number is (818) 702-3972.

Recently we’ve had many requests for difficult-to-find parts for small and/or discontinued appliances. In response to these, Mark Fierle, president of California Electric Service, informs us that most of these parts, in addition to small-appliance repair services, are available at his firm’s 16 branch locations. Here are the addresses of some local California Electric Service branches: 832 S. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, (213) 388-9651; 4511 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, (213) 597-4301; 14753 Oxnard St., Van Nuys, (818) 997-8855; and 1311 E. Orangethorpe Ave., Fullerton, (714) 870-0900. For a complete list, please send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Floreen Lateulere of Cypress, who wanted to know how to make a dress form by wrapping tape around a person, should soon be able to start rolling the tape. Carol Stith referred us to Page 53 of a catalogue put out by Clotilde Inc., 1909 S.W. 1st Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33315-2100. And Jean McIntyre mailed us a page of handwritten step-by-step instructions, which we have forwarded to Lateulere. If anybody else is interested, please send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope, and we’ll have things wrapped up in no time.