European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 9 expert doctors in furniture Hospital Csc teams get All the bad Breaks Story and photos by John Glass Stuttgart Bureau chief Germany if you have Ever refinished or re upholstered you know How difficult it is to achieve that new but that new look is just what they strive for at the Stuttgart consolidated maintenance Center Csc Here at Valdez established in 1948 As the quartermaster repair the organization was re named the Csc in the late it is tasked with the Job of refinishing and restoring All troop and family housing furniture within an estimated Square mile we employ about 80 people to accomplish our said army Donald skip the units our workers come from 17 different countries and on the Job you can hear some 35 different languages or we dont care where they come but we do insist that they be Able to handle the and the Job is a big Erskine said that they some couches and 500 easy sew thousands of new recover about mattresses and refinish approximately pieces of wooden furniture Erskine said that much of the German furniture that they re upholster and refinish is 25 years some of he has been reworked 12 or 13 times Over the its very Well he pointed in much sturdier than you could buy All of the frames on the stuffed furniture Are made out of unless it has really been abused and we have to repair the All we have to do is strip it pull out the old add new foam rubber and re upholster of we do get furniture in with the arms or backs broken off and deep gouges in the you know when you look at it that someone had to work pretty hard to get it in that its no exaggeration when Erskine says some of the furniture that arrives is in bad much of the stuffed furniture being repaired looked As if it had been used As a circus trampoline1 and the pieces awaiting refinishing had so Many scratches and gouges that they resembled the surface of a mini ice rink used by a professional hockey to accomplish their Konrad shop said they use about Yards of drapery and upholstery 250 Gallons of Wood furniture 450 Gallons of 1 tons of and 250 Gallons of coloured Kaluza pointed out that the Csc is also responsible for cleaning and mending carpets for All family quarters and offices and for the repair of most office Kaluza said this includes Multi Lith and adding and even hand Power we Are proud of our Erskine we like to think that we contribute to troop and family morale by taking a beat up piece of furniture or equipment and returning it to the user in almost new superintendent Konrad Kaluza and Coic Donald Erskine Check Rolf Lincke uses an electric grinder to smooth Down broken off Staples on a Sherry Brooks removes old Staples from a chair that needs binding the edges of a carpet is Herb his Section also renovates Karl Birnbach makes use of an air gun in cleaning the dust and goo from a