Ok, I have the exact same canner - just checked the number on the bottom as it is sitting here staring at me waiting to go back to work today (it got a good SOS scrubbing Saturday and need a day to recover ;). Mine is 20+ some years old too, purchased new and still have the box and book and just had the gauge checked last year so here goes. 1) the weight is the only weight, no others are missing. I do mostly 10 lbs. too and just go by the gauge and heat adjustment. The weight will begin to jiggle at 15 lbs. but not before and pick up speed (really gets your attention) as the pressure climbs above that. So you have to use the gauge. If yours is cloudy then it has likely had water in it and I'd replace it. 2) the threaded gauge is just screwed into its gasket - there is no missing nut tho I guess you could add one if you wish as it sticks down enough. The rubber gasket around the gauge needs to be replaced if it isn't really a snug screw-in. I did it once 4 or 5 years ago. 3) the excess pressure relief valve is the black plug on the lid directly opposite from the silver pressure lock pop-up valve. If it ever blows (mine never has) it has to be replaced. So, all that said, and after years of successful use with mine (we cook in it alot besides canning) I'd use it as long as the seal gasket is still good and the lid twist locks in place correctly, you replace the gauge and its gasket so you can read it, and as long as you can get comfortable using the gauge to go by rather than a jiggle weight. ;) Hope this helps. Dave

I don't believe you can leave random feedback on a seller (or buyer), you have to have purchased (or sold) something. Now I suppose I could sell stuff to my friends or create fictitious accounts and write the feedback myself. Of course, you'd be paying eBay a fee for everyone one of those transactions and I have to believe that their security folks might watch for that kind of stuff. I haven't bought or sold much on eBay but what I have has been a positive experience. A few years back I was doing some Internet work for a used car dealer. A customer had mentioned that they had seen the vehicle on eBay. News to us since we didn't use eBay at the time but sure enough someone had "borrowed" the pictures and description of the vehicle from the dealership's website and actually SOLD the vehicle on eBay. I frantically tried to find a customer service phone number for eBay so that they could contact the buyer before he sent any money. Unfortunately, eBay doesn't seem to have a phone number. I sent off an email and then tried to inquire what had happened but eBay would only tell me that the matter was under investigation. The interesting part is that the vehicle was reasonably worth about $16,000 but it had sold on eBay for $9,000. When something seems to good to be true...

francoise- thanks, i really value your opinion,since you were the one who piacked my gray cab. color! LOL! I think I am okay with the latches lining up to the recessed part- I copied that from many GW kitchens I love like KatieOB, babushka, and katekouros'. I do like it also the way you posted this picture. However I don't want to make another trip up to pick a spot, so I want to be safe and line it up because I like having that visual.Hope that makes sense. My only problem now is, I feel if I keep everything uniform that would mean that appliance latch would be kind of low, being it sits on the counter it might look funny. So, do you think by raising just those alittle like in your picture, that would be okay? My husband and the caabinetmaker thought they should be centered- how do u feel about that?

Hi Country Girl. What a conundrum this is proving to be! Rambling Rector should form pretty sprays of tiny red hips, if not deadheaded (obviously!), splayed out all round at a wide angle from the peduncle.... The formation of the spray you show higher up doesn't look quite right to produce that formation - the pedicles seem to be held all roughly pointing in the same direction. I don't remember RR's blooms ever being quite that yellow, but I could well be mistaken. The general effect was a mass of scented, creamy-white blossom. RR is a multiflora hybrid (acc. to HMF). I'm not knowledgeable about IDing the different kinds of ramblers, but Altorama mentioned above that the stipules on your rose didn't seem 'eyelashy' enough to be multiflora. Perhaps this doesn't necessarily apply to all hybrids of MF, though - I don't know. Just re some other suggestions - Goldfinch (another multiflora hybrid) should be thornless, I understand, as discussed earlier - a pity! I think the blooms are too small for either Aviator Bleriot or Allister Stella Grey, and maybe for Aglaia too. I'm not familiar with Danae, but Trier always seems to have some shadings of soft pink/peach, particularly in the buds - from which the Rev. Pemberton developed all those lovely subtly coloured Hybrid Musks. Although, as I said, I'm not very knowledgeable on the subject, a once bloomer with little sprays of blooms and the laterals all coming off the main cane, do indicate some sort of rambler to me. I think that means the blooms will form on older wood only, not the current season's growth - maybe a clue to look for. There are loads of wonderful old ramblers with sprays of creamy-white blossom, but as far as I know they almost always have sprays of small to tiny, red or orange hips. Therefore, perhaps the fact yours stay green - if they definitely do - might be a useful key to whittling the list down to which yours is? Could you not send photos through to RU and ask them what they think it is? Perhaps it may not even be something off their regular listings - possibly something they were sent by mistake, or a seedling they chose not to breed from? I hope some of these musings may be helpful and/or spark something off for someone else... Comtesse