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| Thread ID: 106345 | 2010-01-05 07:32:00 | Vacuum for cleaning books | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 846023 | 2010-01-05 07:32:00 | We have hundreds of books and the only way to clean books properly is by "blowing" not sucking with a vacuum. At one time all vacs came in a cylindrical form with highly efficient passageways and despite small motors not only sucked as well as the hopelessly complex modern vac but also blew well. I did buy one vac a few years ago for the workshop that also claimed to be able to blow. To my amazement I discovered that it did blow, but the designers had carefully arranged the internals so that most of the air was ducted out of the vac body itself not the tube. Why they spent time and money to make sure the blowing was weak is beyond me. I have just seen a Ryobi Vac Wet & Dry VC20HD at Bunnings. It could be the answer but has no small brush and the helpful girl assistant had no idea if it could blow. I would like comments etc - I cannot be the only person in the world who wants to clean up his library. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 846024 | 2010-01-05 07:51:00 | Did you ask for a demonstration? | Sweep (90) | ||
| 846025 | 2010-01-05 08:04:00 | Did you ask for a demonstration? from the girl or the vacum:xmouth: |
plod (107) | ||
| 846026 | 2010-01-05 08:07:00 | from the girl or the vacum:xmouth: Maybe both suck or blow....... |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 846027 | 2010-01-05 08:21:00 | I don't know why vacuum cleaners don't have a blower outlet these days. Most old cylinder models AKAIK blew out the back and the hose could be plugged in there. I used to have a coke furnace I could fire up for blacksmithying, and I used a Hoover to supply the air. You could also buy attachments like paint sprayers that didn't, well after a fashion, but not very well :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 846028 | 2010-01-05 08:34:00 | I would like comments etc - I cannot be the only person in the world who wants to clean up his library. Tom You might be lol |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 846029 | 2010-01-05 08:41:00 | You could also buy attachments like paint sprayers that didn't, well after a fashion, but not very well :) Yeah I had one of those - a Norvac if I remember rightly the paint sprayer did work but paint needed to be thinned down a heck of a lot. The Norvac was 500w but was extremely powerful - the blowing facility was pretty tremendous, even if it wasn't really good enough for spray painting. In fact when I was a kid about 1939 BC (Before computers!), our vacuum was a tiny little thing about 250w but very simple and we used its blower to get a good blaze going in the family fireplace - we could make the coals glow white hot - great fun. It also came with no wheels but chrome plated curved rods to slide on - the easiest vac ever to move from place to place. It would be ideal for my library now. When I was about ten I occasionally helped Dad and a friend repairing various electrical items. I liked fixing vacuums, just clean up the com with some petrol and perhaps emery paper then insert new carbon brushes. Took very little time or money. I think occasionally we went as far as new bearings. Unfortunately another job I got lumbered with was helping wire up very old houses. In those days there were lots with no electricity. My job was to crawl under the floors dragging the cables behind me - the spaces would be too restricted for an adult. Cold, damp, dirty, puddles all over, even rat or mice traces. Frightening. And before you ask I never did get sent up chimneys to clean them. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 846030 | 2010-01-05 08:49:00 | I used to use a Hoover to get the BBQ going. Charcoal that was. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 846031 | 2010-01-05 09:05:00 | Bunnings in Nelson have a wet and dry workshop vac for less than $100. It is identical to one I have used for more than 20 years - in fact I recently bought a filter unit from the new Bunnings model and it fitted my old machine. Has two orifices on the top. Take the hose end out of one orifice and insert it in to the other and it will blow your head off. Not a handsome machine but effective. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 846032 | 2010-01-05 09:08:00 | I used to use a Hoover to get the BBQ going. Charcoal that was. Ditto, except I used Mum's Tellus vacuum cleaner (the one that looked like a mini Dalek). I remember I got the cast iron Hibachi BBQ glowing red hot one time - a mini blast furnace... Had to wait ages before I could put the sossies on. Ah, those were the days :cool: |
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