Bill D,

I find that the one thing that Sears does well is to have backup parts for almost everything they sell, include other brand name repair parts for those items they sell in their stores. You have to do the repairs yourself, but the part is available. Past examples include a belt for a twenty year old clothes dryer, door latch for a ten year old Panasonic microwave, and batteries for the best screw gun anybody ever put out, the 4.8 volt screw gun (slow enough not to over-drive the screw, strong enough to drive any length screw). You have to order off an 800 number but if you know the make and model number of your item, even if you didn't buy it from Sears they may have the part.