Mikey P
Administrator
Here is what I got form Clark (in 2 boxes)
Two types of Cotton pads, A Tuuway and a thick black bonnet of the likes I've never seen.
The guts.
Notice the travel range.
I called Marty to help me figure out where the arms bolted into. His machine is older so I eventually figured it out.
A manual would have been nice.
I wanted to try it so I prevacuumed my Olefin pile rug in the TV room.
As you can see it needed cleaning
First I tried the Egyptian all cotton pads. You can see the damage the driver caused to the pad. Not good. I think I'll need the Velcro driver if I decide to use cotton.
The Defender was also very hard to control on this rug with all cotton pads. John's new blend pads were better but still took way too much effort.
The driver chewed it up as well. But so does my 175's driver.
It was really easy to use with the Tuuways, the black pad and even a fiber pad.
As for the rug, I couldn't really see any difference in it's appearance. But it didn't look that bad to begin with and the lighting in the room is bad. I used a pump up and sprayed it down just a little less then I would if I used a HF. Hot Knife was the juice of choice..After using/trying all those pads it felt about as damp as it would if I V'd it.
The only flaw in the machine itself I could find so far is that the pig tail is way to close to the top cord wrap bracket. It took too much effort to get the cord between the pig tail and the bracket.. Lower the braket two inches and all will be good.
So as it is with this driver I'll be using the Defender to encapoo and to prescrub. Traditional JG OP style cleaning is not an option unless Clark wants to give me 20,000 cotton pads to test.
The V is getting over loaded.
Two types of Cotton pads, A Tuuway and a thick black bonnet of the likes I've never seen.
The guts.
Notice the travel range.
I called Marty to help me figure out where the arms bolted into. His machine is older so I eventually figured it out.
A manual would have been nice.
I wanted to try it so I prevacuumed my Olefin pile rug in the TV room.
As you can see it needed cleaning
First I tried the Egyptian all cotton pads. You can see the damage the driver caused to the pad. Not good. I think I'll need the Velcro driver if I decide to use cotton.
The Defender was also very hard to control on this rug with all cotton pads. John's new blend pads were better but still took way too much effort.
The driver chewed it up as well. But so does my 175's driver.
It was really easy to use with the Tuuways, the black pad and even a fiber pad.
As for the rug, I couldn't really see any difference in it's appearance. But it didn't look that bad to begin with and the lighting in the room is bad. I used a pump up and sprayed it down just a little less then I would if I used a HF. Hot Knife was the juice of choice..After using/trying all those pads it felt about as damp as it would if I V'd it.
The only flaw in the machine itself I could find so far is that the pig tail is way to close to the top cord wrap bracket. It took too much effort to get the cord between the pig tail and the bracket.. Lower the braket two inches and all will be good.
So as it is with this driver I'll be using the Defender to encapoo and to prescrub. Traditional JG OP style cleaning is not an option unless Clark wants to give me 20,000 cotton pads to test.
The V is getting over loaded.