Thanks Dan. I'll try Sears or the local hardware store. I had to laugh because when I was asking about it at Home Depo, the woman who was helping me said she didn't have it but that it was a great idea. She was going to try a nylon stocking on hers. Betsy At 02:47 PM 3/20/2010, you wrote: > > >Betsy, > >I think I wrote about the lint trap on the end of the discharge hose for >my washing machine. It is just a stainless steel mesh sock and it is held >on to the end of the hose with a zip tie. I thought we got it at Lowes, >but possibly Home Depot. > >As I found out today, not all Lowes carry the same stuff. I asked three >different guys today about a sheet goods carrier, and they all adamantly >insisted that they don't have them, never had them. > >Oh yeah, the lint sock stays on quite well for me, but that probably has >something to do with the fact that I extended the existing hose with a >piece of old vacuum cleaner hose, so the zip tie catches in the ridges >quite nicely. > >-- >Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail:<mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu>d...@andrew.cmu.edu >Tel:(412) 268-9081 >
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