| Hi Sharon: << Hi! I understand that you are the USA Leclerc advice person (you might suggest to the Leclerc web person to change advise to advice....:) )>> Thanks for picking that up. Until they are spotted we hope entries of that type simply add a French flavor to the page<G> but we would rather get it right so thanks again. << I have a 36-inch Artisat jack loom that is a lot rickety, but I manage. Sometimes the bands of color that I weave lose their parallelism and I'm not sure whether it's the way I'm warping or something slipping in the tension band.>> The Artisat is a fully foldable Loom(front and back) and as a consequence, the Frame has a number of joints that a rigid Frame type Loom does not have. When weaving, these joints have to be tightened regularly or the Frame will tend to get pretty wobbly. Unless you need to fold and unfold on a daily basis, I would recommend you tighten right down on the fasteners at the joints. They will be more difficult to loosen when you want to fold, but the Frame will be more rigid. <<Also, those brown plastic separators attached to the loom that separate the harnesses have mostly broken off. Do you have replacements? How can I get them out and replace them with new, maybe stronger, separators?>> We do have replacements but to my knowledge they are the same as the original equipment. I will discuss with Francois looking at a replacement for this part. The separators are simply pressed in. If there is enough of the broken separator protruding to grip with a pair of pliers, they should come out with a little twist. If not , drill a small hole and remove with an E-Z out. Sometimes just drilling the hole will spin them out. Thanks for responding to the Leclerc Q&A page, and have a good day. Tom Beaudet |