Eeewwwwww :o

[DesertTortoise]

This is the powered brush from the $25 Starvation Army Electrolux "shop vac". I will let the images tell the story, except to add that the bottom housing and cover over the brush roll were both hosed out outside on the lawn (fertilizer!) cuz I ain't putting anything that had puke and/or cat crap coating it in my sink.

Look how clean the brush came out! I was about to toss it in the trash when the brain cell said, hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained. I wash wooden cooking utensils and they last years, so WTF. Sometimes the Desert Tortoises surprises himself.

Dig the funky optics for the headlight bulb. So far this brush doesn't impress me. A Panasonic/Kenmore/Hayden/Nutone/Centec head is easier to take apart, the brush gets closer to the edge and has much fewer parts inside.

 

[super-sweeper]

Well Done!

But wait until you see the KENMORE I dragged home form the Flea-Market! Look out for my thread later! 

 

[suckolux]

Wow, night and day! That was five kinds of nasty bud.

 

[DesertTortoise]

I'm very much looking forward to this Supersweeper. I'm very curious to know what kind of Kenmore you picked up.

 

[eurekastar]

Bravo!!! Well done!

 

[stricklybojack]

Yes...

very nice clean up. How did ya do it? What soaps etc i mean.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Well, the base and the inner brush cover (the gray plastic part directly over the brush that was caked in, um, brown stuff) I had to hose out in the front yard first. I don't want brown stuff in my sink. Then everything goes in the sink for a scrub with a mixture of Zep Products orange degreaser from Homely Depot and some warm water. You can see I use an old paint brush to get into all the little webs and recesses in the molding. Anything that resists that requires a Scotchbrite pad and some elbow grease.

To get the battle scars out of the upper shell I used the orange degreaser and a Scotchbrite pad. Just scrub the bejeezus out of it. A couple of the gouges on that poor thing will never come out so I had to satisfy myself with scrubbing the black crud out of them so they aren't obvious. The nice thing about the pebble finish on this vac is you can scrub hard with a fresh Scotchbrite and not leave noticeable marks. On smooth finishes I find that Softscrub works well unless the battle scar is really deep. I also use auto polishes and auto wax on smooth shiny surfaces.