Dwain Ray
On Vacation
After seeing the videos I would try a zipper if there was 1 around but i use the drag wand on all carpets big or small, my daily use drag wand is 16" but i even have a 12" drag on the truck for small jobs, travel trailers, 5th wheels and tiny homes. My first machines were steam geni portables, back in the day they all came with drag wands. Quickly I discovered they didn't clean very well but they were great at drying, so i bought a scrub wand, it was a back breaker. It cleaned well but didn't dry worth a damn. I would scrub the shit out of the carpets and go back over with a drag wand. This worked good for a few years till i started getting employees. Around 85/86 Rotorys had been on the market now for a couple of years but i as alot of carpet cleaners back then belived, i didn't need a 2500.00 attachment to make my 10,000 machine work better (yes back then a good new machine only cost 10,000) (my first new van a 1982 chevy 2500 was 13,000) with employees i found a serious problem with the scrub wand on large carpets, the more they cleaned the less clean the carpet got because of the effort required to use the scrubber. One day an old original black knob low speed rx20 showed up on my porch (if you were in business back then you know the rotary i speak of ). It had gone thru a winter and had froze, after setting Around the shop and in the way one day i tore it apart, fixed it and tried it out, i was so impressed with how effortlessly it cleaned that i went out the next day and bought a new one . And ive been running them ever since, i keep the scrub wand on the truck in case the rotary breaks ( or the job is too small ) but that rarely happens and when it does it's usually the power cord or i snapped a head off the star, both of which i have spares on the van.(power cord is a twist lock and i have a spare star for each rotary) When i get a new employee i usually make them clean the shop carpet with the scrub wand, only to impress upon them the importance of taking care of the rotary, nobody wants to ever have to use the scrubber. When i built frankinstien, i looked into replacing the rx20 with something more modern (and lighter im getting to be an old fart now). My supplier's told me that i would be constantly comparing whatever i got to the rx20 and wouldn't
be happy with anything else so this spring when i finish purchasing the tile and grout attachments i need im buying frankinstien a new rx20 but with old open vacuum heads , and 5 spray jets not those 3 cone clogging crap hthey come with a side note i still habe every rx20 i ever bought with the exception of 1 i sold and evev the old black knob one still works! Side note if anybody has an old 6jet 24" steamgeni drag wand laying around im willing to buy it i want it for large commercial jobs
be happy with anything else so this spring when i finish purchasing the tile and grout attachments i need im buying frankinstien a new rx20 but with old open vacuum heads , and 5 spray jets not those 3 cone clogging crap hthey come with a side note i still habe every rx20 i ever bought with the exception of 1 i sold and evev the old black knob one still works! Side note if anybody has an old 6jet 24" steamgeni drag wand laying around im willing to buy it i want it for large commercial jobs
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