re: 5 1/2" Spindle Sander Sleeve availability

I hear you George. Our old hardware store was a Marshall Wells. We also had a Beaver Lumber and a Revelstoke Lumber store which were good as well, just not as old or authentic as Marshall Wells. Seems that Marshall Wells started in Duluth in 1886 and was bought out in the States in 1958. It continued in Canada until the early 70's. 
 

The Marshall-Wells Company was founded in 1886 by George C. Greenwood, Edwin V. Mundy, and Arthur B. Chapin in Duluth, Minnesota. Its industry was hardware and its headquarters was in New York City, New York.The Duluth branch consolidated with the Kelley-How-Thomson Company in 1958. Later that year it was acquired by the Coast to Coast Company, thus ending the American company.