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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Curmudgeoness

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3. Restoring old jewelry.....

Reply to IrishAyes (Reply #2)

Tue May 27, 2014, 07:04 PM

May 2014

I am not sure how I feel about that. If I liked the piece enough to want to use it, I am not sure I would want to put nail polish on it. I am sure that you could not get it off again if it didn't look right. But I don't have any old costume jewelry that I would want to wear, so it wasn't significant to me. Have you tried it on anything?

Regarding your fan, I suppose that you could replace the motor with one that would work with the fan. I did that with my exhaust fan over the stove when it died and they no longer sell the type that I had----and since there is a hole in the wall to the outside to fit this one, I wasn't wanting to get a different style.

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Cheap Easy Attic Fan and one other unrelated idea [View all] IrishAyes May 2014 OP

I am glad that you found a solution Curmudgeoness May 2014 #1

Somebody gave me a better idea, though. Apparently there's a good chance that the motor can be IrishAyes May 2014 #2

Restoring old jewelry..... Curmudgeoness May 2014 #3

No, I haven't actually tried the fingernail polish method on old costume jewelry myself as yet. IrishAyes May 2014 #4