On Jan 6, 3:34*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:03:29 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03





wrote:
On Jan 5, 10:18*am, hank wrote:
I have have a house full of double hung windows. ( actually only the
lower half raises and the upper half stays fixed) The spring has a
plastic cover on the upper half which has become brittle and needs to
be replaced. Lockwood the manufacture originally from Canada has gone
out of business
as far as I can tell. Is that plastic sleeve at all a standard
replacement part.for other window manufacture If so where would I
find
them.

Ah, the memories.

My old double hungs had the same plastic covered springs as you
describe.

When I was ripping them out to replace with vinyl, I got real good at
closing my eyes and ducking when I'd pry the spiral-nail out of the
top of the window frame. The spring would retract violently and send
pieces of brittle plastic flying in all directions.

It was actually the most fun part of the job!

By the way, what you have is known as a "single hung", not double
hung. Double hung has both panes moveable.- Hide quoted text -

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And double hung windows with that type of system gives you twice as
much brittle plastic encasing the springs.

BTDT