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  • Repairing Yet Another Garden Sprayer

    Evidently, it’s impossible to make a spring both good and noncorrosive:

    Garden sprayer - corroded spring
    Garden sprayer – corroded spring

    I found a suitable (i.e., good, but rust-prone) spring in the Big Box o’ Medium Springs:

    Garden sprayer - spring replaced
    Garden sprayer – spring replaced

    Unlike the repair for that sprayer, this spring turned out to be long enough to work perfectly. I have no idea how long I can keep this up, but … at least I’m now keeping pace with the failures.