Living The Dream
Member
My 360xl I bought on the auction here is getting ready to be shipped. Should I upgrade to 3/4 hp motor for 200$ or not? My truck mount is a boxxer 427.
Upgrade 360xl motor or not?
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Desk Jockey
Member
If you are going to use the brush head, yes. If not, you should be fine without the larger motor.
Living The Dream
Member
I did order the brush head.
Desk Jockey
Member
Better get the larger motor so it doesn't bog down in dense carpet.
Worth the extra when using the brush head. If you ever sell it, you'll recover more of your investment.
Worth the extra when using the brush head. If you ever sell it, you'll recover more of your investment.
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Larger motor and then you are set for anything.
Russ T.
Supportive Member
hogjowl
Idiot™
Don't listen to these idiots! You need the larger motor to run the brush head!
Mikey P
Administrator
We run the smaller motor with the Teflon glided BrushHead with no problem
gtech12v
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Upgrade ,Upgrade UPGRADE
Cleanworks
Moderator
$200 is cheap insurance.
Living The Dream
Member
I ordered the one with teflon glides.
Living The Dream
Member
Requested the upgrade. Hopefully it hasn't been shipped yet! Thanks for the input everyone!
Living The Dream
Member
I found an old thread on here where Mikey said for being a member they would do the upgrade for 150$. So I asked today and they said they would honor that. Great customer service on Rotovac's behalf and thanks for the hook up @Mikey P
Living The Dream
Member
I, Upgraded Upgraded Upgraded! LOL
Cleanworks
Moderator
Now you can charge more.
Living The Dream
Member
I think I charge enough but it never hurts to look at current pricing!
Cleanworks
Moderator
Look at what you're charging for a basic clean now and see what a difference the brush head makes. Using the brush will take longer and you may need to do extra dry passes. Figure out what it is worth for your customer and charge it.
Living The Dream
Member
Will do! Thanks for the input!
Great tool. Hope you get so much out of it. Glad @Rotovac yet again showed themselves to be a good service provider and honoured your upgrade. I have been ordering more from Rotovac. I am going to buy myself a DHX shortly. Not soon enough.
Nate The Great
Member
I hope they redesigned the Dhx ports and heads... Your dry times are going to suck or time on the job will increase... I grew up using the twin power head... While it worked most of the time, the middle gap where the wheel is positioned requires you to over lap it.. The rv360i is a better move and movement..
To each their own..
Nate The Great
Member
When @GeeeAus falls down, he bleeds Rotovac...... I'd find one locally to try out before committing to purchasing one....
Pretty much...
I want ALL the Rotovac tools. I specialise in cleaning pieces of shit, rentals, 20 year old nylons, wool with coal dust and iron ore.
I don't know a lot about the politocs of the CC industry. I came too late. I only got serious in 2012 and a 360i in 2015.
But I have worked with machinery and devices my entire professional life.
Rotovac gets it. They uniquely make tools that push boundries.
Today I used my steam chamber on a nasty mattress and while the mattress will never be perfect it's very much better and it made the job very quick to do.
That's Rotovac in a nutshell their tools make my jobs much better and it makes them very easy to do .
The DHX unit offers the most intense agitation of all RJEs.
With all of the aforementioned nasty carpet so I cleaned I'd like one of these tools.
Another example of clever engineering that's been put together to make a difficult task much easier.
I am also in love with the little scrubby heads you can get for it . They don't do any extraction but they'll be ideal for scrubbing some hard floor surfaces and stubborn commercial glue down carpet.
Because I put the pillars of my business in place early on now I can afford to go back and have nice tools that I perhaps don't use quite as often but I still benefit from.
I think I will use DHX a lot though.
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Mikey P
Administrator
The BH head allows for less water usage. Everything happens quicker and at lower pressure
Mikey P
Administrator
Brush head has Game Changer status.
Rotovac needs to borrow from the success of the brush head and make a new head using the brush block, no vacuum shoes and a top mounted spray system like the tile head has and call it the "encap head".
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
They have the drive block....
I know of a guy who bought a tank from JonDon and mounted, and just fed the tube down somehow into the cover and has done encap.
Bet it wouldn't take much to make a shower feed if a person really wanted....
This video was using the half horse motor by the way....
Kinda crazy to be using a $2500 Rotovac to replace a $500 175rpm buffer that you probably have in the van. Only guy I know that is that maxed out for space in his van not to carry a 175----Saiger oops probably Mikey too, oops probably Pigfarmer too because of his bed in the back...
