TURTLE wrote:

"Jen" wrote in message
om...
The other day my towel rack broke, i.e. the bar itself, where you hang
the towel. Our house was built in 1960, so the towel bar holding
thingies are made out of tile and attached to the surrounding tiles
via grout, as far as I can tell. We don't really want to remove them,
as they are "glued" over more than one tile and we are fairly sure
we'll never find the same kind of underlying tile again, if we damage
it.
So what I am looking for is a towel bar that has some kind of spring
in it, so I could push it together, wedge it into the tile holding
thingies (No, I don't want to sound cutesy, but I have no clue how
those things are called.) and the spring would release and hold the
bar securely in place. I kind of know they exist, because I have
talked to associates in stores, who said they existed, but that their
store stopped carrying them. (And of course they had no clue as to
where to get them.)
I live in VA and I have already checked Lowe's, Walmart and Target. I
have also searched the internet, but without success. If anybody knows
where to find a towel bar with springs, please tell me. or if anybody
knows how to build anything that could take its place, please let me
know too.
Thanks!
Jen

This is Turtle.

Hey i just got through posting about this very same thing. Look back on Dec.
20,2003 at 9:20 P.M. on here at alt.home.repair where I ask this same
question and Martin give this wedsite to order the replacement rods for
them. There was others that give good add on post for this problem too.
http://plumbing.aubuchonhardware.com...bar-405965.asp
These bars are the solution for the problem for they come in clear and
white.

TURTLE
thanks turtle, been looking for one for a long time....
the nephew was doing swings on ours and pulled it out...