Custom Squeegee

[cleanking]

Anyone have a source for having custom squeegees made? I'd like it to be designed just about like this one, but 30" wide and angled slightly upright to make it more user friendly. Same polyethylene blade material and construction.

 

[Mikey P]

Shocked that a guru doesnt offer customs already

I made one when I was washing... Cant recall how..

 

[Desk Jockey]

If you haven't already looked, Jondon has more than a dozen on their website. Different lengths, types of material and different manufacturers.

 

[cleanking]

If you haven't already looked, Jondon has more than a dozen on their website. Different lengths, types of material and different manufacturers.

It's not a floor squeegee. It's for moving water off and out of a rug on the wash floor, they work well for us but for room sized rugs it would be great for it to be wider and the angle could be better to require less leaning over to leverage the pushing.

Needs to be that hard, polyethylene blade to push easily over the rug, I've tried rubber ones and they just snag too much

 

[cleanking]

Shocked that a guru doesnt offer customs already

I agree, a lot of people have mentioned wanting these redesigned. Braun Brush sells the one above and they make custom brushes, my first thought was to contact them about making a custom size. Even just a wider blade that could be attached to this mount would work well.

 

[Ron K]

I agree, a lot of people have mentioned wanting these redesigned. Braun Brush sells the one above and they make custom brushes, my first thought was to contact them about making a custom size. Even just a wider blade that could be attached to this mount would work well.

Jordon Email me rhkoller@gmail.com I'll gladly send you a picture of the one I made.
Although too wide and you get "chatter"
Have some pictures of other smaller ones too that may be adapted to that size.

 

[Papa John]

Masterblend has one. Or you can make your own. home depot will have the handle and squeegee bracket. you can get the plastic head from Tab plastics or similar store, or use a scrap piece of Corian.

 

[Nate The Great]

If I recall a conversation I had with @The Great Oz , he told me the wider you go on the squeegee, the less force you get and just skims the surface... I do like some designs I've seen in youtube videos... The metal ones that look like a backscratcher-ish... I've been using the rubber squeegee one because I'd keep breaking the handles with the poly one you posted...

It's a give and take IMHO on the squeegee's... The wider you go = skimming the surface more.... The narrower you go = less coverage but more bite...

I really would like a more ergonomically correct one so I don't need to bend-over soo much... LMK if you do find one or have one made...

This video is the one I was talking about...

 

[T Monahan]

OK gents! I will make some. Give me your best guess on what you want for size, and I will make the first ones at cost and send them to you.

 

[cleanking]

http://www.brush.com/ss5-22350.html

This is the handle you want. Get the 72" you'll never regret it. Heavy enough and rigid enough that it helps slide right through the rug, no chatter.

 

[cleanking]

OK gents! I will make some. Give me your best guess on what you want for size, and I will make the first ones at cost and send them to you.

The stock ones are an 18" wide blade, I think 30" could be perfect. Also making the threaded handle part extra strong, that seems to be the place these fail (especially the ones with this plastic brackets from Adco Supply in CO).

The angle could be improved as well, so you don't have to lower the handle as much to get the blade to slide and not stick. Just a couple tweaks and it could be improved upon dramatically IMO. I believe @rhyde had some opinions as well in another forum posted a while back.

 

[rhyde]

Braun brush will make you a 30" if you want it's what we did. I would go to tap to lactic and have a custom blade mad for it cost about 10 bucks . The issue we had with stock plastic is its tapered from Braun they flexed too much and bind up On the rug and Causes the socket to breaks. I'm doing a run of the ones we make for our shop mostly for a giveaway at ICE and for a few others that ask probably cost 60 -70 not sure I want to make it a full time job

 

[Ron K]

The key is the radius on the bottom and the thickness of the plastic. I used 3/8 white vanilla plastic the radius was almost the entire width. I think a you can use the braces from a push broom. Use larger angle iron the entire length of the blade to stabiles the wobble/chatter. Wood handle is fine.Put a nice radius on the bottom corners where the blade meets the rugs too it prevents snags, If you really like the 18 or 24 just replace or screw on your desired length of plastic. There are some videos out there from India I think of like four or five guys "really scrapping" a new rug, in time, really rhythmically with what look like wooden paddles.

 

[cleanking]

Braun brush will make you a 30" if you want it's what we did. I would go to tap to lactic and have a custom blade mad for it cost about 10 bucks . The issue we had with stock plastic is its tapered from Braun they flexed too much and bind up On the rug and Causes the socket to breaks. I'm doing a run of the ones we make for our shop mostly for a giveaway at ICE and for a few others that ask probably cost 60 -70 not sure I want to make it a full time job

Would it come with the threaded handle bracket like the stock one does? Pairing these with the Braun stainless handle seems to make them perform much better.

I'd definitely be in for 2.

 

[Chris A]

I got mine from chemmax, it's about 30" wide

 

[cleanking]

I got mine from chemmax, it's about 30" wide

He is getting them from Braun. And I'm fairly certain it's the same 18" wide version they're selling on their site.

It says 18" on his site...
http://dev.chemmax.com/product_info.php?products_id=95&osCsid=0sigauqlr7qnb8igm2mbn633q1

 

[Chris A]

Eh, what do I know

 

[rhyde]

We use unthreaded sockets the treads ones wear and don't last as long ...Imo

I'm still in Iran Kashan to be exact when I get back next week I'll post some pics

 

[Ron K]

Jordan, if you post the pictures I sent you they are exactly the same as Randy's.

 

[cleanking]

Jordan, if you post the pictures I sent you they are exactly the same as Randy's.

I cannot find this email anywhere, I see the email I sent you but I can find the one with the pictures you sent.

 

[The Great Oz]

OK, I'm going to give up all future profit from this invention - because I love you all so much.
(And know that everyone will steal it anyway and force me to sue... or threaten to sue... or just whine about the bastards...)

This is actually a pic of an existing Rotovac head to give you the idea. Take any rotary head with HDPE sliders, or cram HDPE sliders into the slots on any rotary tool you have, and use it for rug agitation in your flooded, soapy pit. Stop killing yourself with a third-world scraper on a stick!

This idea is actually the slumdog version of the roller head I wanted to make for rug pit agitation, but an industry patent troll has already patented any possible combination of roller and carpet cleaning, so this is the next best thing.

 

[cleanking]

OK, I'm going to give up all future profit from this invention - because I love you all so much.
(And know that everyone will steal it anyway and force me to sue... or threaten to sue... or just whine about the bastards...)

This is actually a pic of an existing Rotovac head to give you the idea. Take any rotary head with HDPE sliders, or cram HDPE sliders into the slots on any rotary tool you have, and use it for rug agitation in your flooded, soapy pit. Stop killing yourself with a third-world scraper on a stick!

This idea is actually the slumdog version of the roller head I wanted to make for rug pit agitation, but an industry patent troll has already patented any possible combination of roller and carpet cleaning, so this is the next best thing.

Got a video of this in action?

 

[hogjowl]

What is a HPDE slider?

 

[The Great Oz]

What is a HPDE slider?

High Density PolyEthylene. The tough but slippy plastic used to make everything from oil-free bearings to wand glides.

Got a video of this in action?

I did a video of my roller head for the patent application as a proof of concept, but not the same thing. I actually started thinking about just using rotary glides when I saw Keith Studebaker's HDPE glides for the Hoss at MF S'Cruz a few years back.

The thing every rug cleaner knows is that brushes work from the top and don't really do a very good job of getting impacted soil up from the base of an Oriental rug nap, compression does. A heavy rotary tool + a compression "blade" = dirt removal.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I actually started thinking about just using rotary glides when I saw Keith Studebaker's HDPE glides for the Hoss at MF S'Cruz a few years back.

The thing every rug cleaner knows is that brushes work from the top and don't really do a very good job of getting impacted soil up from the base of an Oriental rug nap, compression does. A heavy rotary tool + a compression "blade" = dirt removal.

That, explains a lot!

All these years ALL theses years! All these years I just thought you were a dick. Now it seems you had good reason.

However, its a little too late for me change my opinion of you, since its already been formed.

Sorry!

 

[Mikey P]

RotoVac uses Teflon

The Hoss glides are the plastic Ozzy speaks of.





Is he admitting DAB hacks out rugs with a rx20?

 

[Ron K]

Compression Compresses. It does not remove. Actually pushes dirt deeper in, compressing it into the base of the rugs foundation. It looks like you'r getting dirt out but you really are not. Snow works too. Take a really old dirty 90 line, Sarouk, or Bidjar and please tell me how you can compress dirt out. As an example take a really dirty sponge Squeeze it really tightly...fill it with more water then squeeze it again. More dirt why, "compression removes?" not really. Soap, detergent, surfactants, suspend soil,water rinses suspended soil away. Robert Mann extensively uses a rinsing"pressure washers" action also awesome aggitation the water actually opens the pile up and flushes dirt out, what i saw the ringer used for was for ringing out moisture to either re-clean or pre-centrifuge. Now I'm not saying you won't get some dirt out with that crazy devise. Probably get a lot of repair work from it too. But a scrapper used properly will do more.

 

[hogjowl]

I've been particularly bored with this place of late. So I'm going to act like this is interesting.
May be it will be.

 

[Mikey P]

I've been particularly bored with this place of late. So I'm going to act like this is interesting.
May be it will be.

maybe you need excitement elsewhere in your life..

 

[Mikey P]

High Density PolyEthylene. The tough but slippy plastic used to make everything from oil-free bearings to wand glides.


I did a video of my roller head for the patent application as a proof of concept, but not the same thing. I actually started thinking about just using rotary glides when I saw Keith Studebaker's HDPE glides for the Hoss at MF S'Cruz a few years back.

The thing every rug cleaner knows is that brushes work from the top and don't really do a very good job of getting impacted soil up from the base of an Oriental rug nap, compression does. A heavy rotary tool + a compression "blade" = dirt removal.

I think Brian got his plastic acronyms confused, not that it matters..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene





His theory (and practice) of using a glided RE for pit agitation is something I'd like to see tested more. Not to offend Brian but arnt you the company that wont let your on location techs use glided wands?