Lee Stockwell
FOJL
How do you REAALLY feel?
New Clear Top Upholstery Tool
- Thread starter Larry Cobb
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OMG...... A Vapor Vac.
Didn't Noah have one on the MV Ark ??
Didn't Noah have one on the MV Ark ??
Desk Jockey
Member
Shorty we once had three of them and NO Noah didn't have them on the Ark. He tried but the Ark sank down in the water from the weight. 
NobleCarpetCleaners
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does this thread mean I'm ready to retire?
ruff
Member
And here are the tell tell signs 
: http://mikeysboard.com/forum/index....-tell-signs-that-i-am-ready-to-retire.277094/
: http://mikeysboard.com/forum/index....-tell-signs-that-i-am-ready-to-retire.277094/
Loren Egland
Member
If some of you don't like to fiddle with a flow control, then the Hydrokinetic is a good choice. You can flush with truckmount pressure and flow as well as have a trigger for further control.
Mikey P
Administrator
What do you think of the mytee design Loren?
I think it is just another tool, some well like it some will hate it. I am happy I will have another tool to at least check out and make a choice. I am looking for a new upholstery tool, I hate doing it but I have to admit these newer style tools look like it would make it easier and a bit more enjoyable.
I don't do a lot of upholstery work, I have a cheapo and a nice PC one, I have heard a glide makes the PC like a totally different tool but still not a big fan of it. It is very heavy, great quality but heavy.
I like the idea of not having water running down the piece I am cleaning, and all of these tools look like they address that problem.
I don't do a lot of upholstery work, I have a cheapo and a nice PC one, I have heard a glide makes the PC like a totally different tool but still not a big fan of it. It is very heavy, great quality but heavy.
I like the idea of not having water running down the piece I am cleaning, and all of these tools look like they address that problem.
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
A glide changes that tool soo much....
First time I ever used it, I called Greenie and asked him why he never insisted I try it.
I now have the Sapphire Scientific units and love them too.
So many bright shiny tools in this industry.....
I need to look into a glide for the PC, I still don't like the open jet. I don't do much mainly because I hate the tool. I get asked all the time and most of the time I just out price it so I don't have to deal with upholstery but the SS and RV both look very nice. I am going to ECI and have said I am coming home with one of them, Now it looks as mytee will have one there too so I will be able to try that one also.
Mikey P
Administrator
get the SS, it's proven.
Loren Egland
Member
I would have to see it in real life and play with it some to answer that. With all those little holes it reminds me of the ss and rv tools.
Just from watching the video I couldn't help but think that an actual spray pattern from a regular jet would flush more evenly across the cleaning path. It wouldn't have air space between the water streams from the little holes.
Mikey P
Administrator
the spray bar is exactly the same as the SS tool, minus a hole or two. It will perform the same, which is great.
No trigger and having the valve where it is raises many eyebrows. If the spray bar is aluminum, heat will be causing synthetics to melt.
No trigger and having the valve where it is raises many eyebrows. If the spray bar is aluminum, heat will be causing synthetics to melt.
Mikey P
Administrator
Quality has a price.
and the non trigger is a deal killer.
and the non trigger is a deal killer.
I did but the PMF internal. I haven't tried it yet but thanks for the advice anyways lol.
My brother who has cleaned a lot of carpet scoffed at the idea of no trigger also....
Art Kelley
Supportive Member
I run my SS tool with the trigger locked on and my PMF internal jet doesn't even have a trigger, I removed it years ago. It may take some getting used to, to have the solution always on, but once you become accustomed to it, you understand why it's better to run it that way. I keep a 5 gallon bucket near me if I need to set the tool down, to catch any overspray.
Mikey P
Administrator
You also own a truckmount but chose to clean with a shop vac...
ronbeatty
Member
Art Kelley
Supportive Member
It is funny; all that money you spent on your Vortex and I can do better upholstery cleaning with a porty because I'm using the system's full potential instead of choking everything down and not even having heat at the tool.
Mikey P
Administrator
No heat at the tool?
News to me.
All these years I've been cleaning with cold water and didn't know it..
News to me.
All these years I've been cleaning with cold water and didn't know it..
Desk Jockey
Member
ruff
Member
How many here use the continuous flow with upholstery tools?
I do not.
I am very well aware of the heat advantage. However, considering the disadvantages (filling waste tank a lot faster, as a result needing to do the job somewhat faster, potential issues with accidents with water) and the fact that a little extra time and agitation will more than compensate, to me it just ain't worth it.
P.S. When working by yourself, Art's porty will do every bit as good a job in cleaning upholstery as the most expensive truck mount.
I do not.
I am very well aware of the heat advantage. However, considering the disadvantages (filling waste tank a lot faster, as a result needing to do the job somewhat faster, potential issues with accidents with water) and the fact that a little extra time and agitation will more than compensate, to me it just ain't worth it.
P.S. When working by yourself, Art's porty will do every bit as good a job in cleaning upholstery as the most expensive truck mount.
Mikey P
Administrator
true but by the time Art has his gin mill contraption set up, I'm already done and collecting a check.
Desk Jockey
Member
I feel...maybe not actual but I feel it dries fast with a TM than a portable. If its standard care fabric, not an issue but if its special care I'd much rather it dry fast. Some special care I would use either on.
ruff
Member
That's true.
That, and my advanced creaky bones/ personality/ age / you name it, is why never pull out the portable that is currently celebrating the first six months of collecting dust in my van.
Mikey P
Administrator
I was at a car wash the other day where they were using a mytee portable for interior work. They had a PMF metal hand tool attached to a 25 hose.
You could tell that tool had been dropped and ran over many a times.
"Larry's" tool would not last a day in the hands of one of those dudes.
You could tell that tool had been dropped and ran over many a times.
"Larry's" tool would not last a day in the hands of one of those dudes.
Desk Jockey
Member
Congratulations as a professional carpet & upholstery cleaner that is the BEST place for a portable.
ruff
Member
I am not proud of it.
But unless business deteriorates and I'll have to do it again, it was one of the best gifts I've given myself
But unless business deteriorates and I'll have to do it again, it was one of the best gifts I've given myself
