slightly on topic - Craftsman #8605 hedge shears

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On topic because they're old enough (30+ years?) to have wood handles and trimming hedges is working with "wood", just on a different scale ;-)

My better half was out trimming some flowering bushes and brought the shears to me when they "came apart". I'm almost certain the shears had a "finger" washer that provided tension on the blades and served as a lock washer as there's a circle worn in the blade that's a little more than 1/8" larger in diameter than the nut. I used the small metal detector (usually used to find dropped hardware in grass) to search where she'd been working but the only "hit" was part of a metal foil candy wrapper :-(

Anyone have a source for parts that old? Sears Parts online has nothing; not even a diagram or parts list. Searches for "Craftsman

8605 hedge shears" and similar do find some on Ebay but new Fiskars in the same size and with a similar compound cutting action are lighter and cheaper ($27 at HD).

The better half got the new Fiskars to finish what she'd been working on but I'd like to get the old shears operational just to have a backup and maybe be able to tell the grandkids "They just don't make things like they used to" ;-)

[J. Clarke]

Finding the Sears part is unlikely--since the tax code was changed to discourage stocking spare parts dating back to the beginning of time (that wasn't the intent of the tax code, it was an unintended consequence) such inventories have evaporated.

Try McMaster-Carr--they almost certainly have a washer that will do the job. A couple of other sources are Grainger and Fastenal.

[Clare Snyder]

Looks like a standard wavy spring washer or possibly a Belleville washer.

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Thanks for the description - I don't remember the exact shape of the washer and I didn't find even a small piece of it to use for comparison. This would be much easier to get right if I had even a quarter of the circle :-(

[Just Wondering]