Metal lips. The top lip came off after 2 or 3 uses. Reordered more and still the same issue. Without it you risk tearing the fabric because the head is 2 pieces split vertically down the middle
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Yea thats the 1 they showed me at the supply store with the meatal lip off...
So which one are you gonna get?
Arrgghh. I am torn. Not sure. May need to make a trip to supplier and hold some in my hand.
They havent quite perfected theae yet...
Rotovac needs a non trigger
Saphire needs to stop streaking
Drimaster needs to stop breaking
I may go with the rotovac even though i really like the nontrigger
Rotovac needs a non trigger
Saphire needs to stop streaking
Drimaster needs to stop breaking
I may go with the rotovac even though i really like the nontrigger
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Welome to the carpet cleaning industry. Though I hear one company is bent on making a change. ;-)
The upholstery tools that is mentioned above will have amazing water flow for everything commercial or non commercial no problems at all
https://www.mytee.com/products/mytee-dry-upholstery-tool/#.WD4L6KIrKCc
Mytee has some breakage and quality issues early on. Those have been remedied a long tome ago.
Ive had my drimaster 2 since 2009, and ive only had one issue with the metal lips because I dropped it but the solution after many times afterward of them falling off was take completely apart and clean thoroughly, I also bought many extra. I take the tool apart once a year to clean inspect and possibly replace the lips. Ive only had to replace the lips once since 2009
Well i picked up the rotovac sheer dri today...
Just demoed it on my car...so far so good...
Easy to use glides easy back and forth
And quick dry times....
I will try it on commercial resturant booth tomorow
Just demoed it on my car...so far so good...
Easy to use glides easy back and forth
And quick dry times....
I will try it on commercial resturant booth tomorow
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Yea they do I took my apart for the first time to clean it and all the parts where the threads were molded into the plastic dry rotted and broke with barely any pressure from removing them....
I like the ss, I also have the mytee, the ss is much better.
The Rotovac SS have way more flow than a jetted tool. Just not the pressure. Actually too much flow for how much water they use for such thin fabric if your like me and have onboard water and don't like tapping in on a customers.
Yeah I agree. I like how the jetted tools perform on confers and crevices. Just hate the overspray on some.
Hi John. I'm gonna pick one of those up. Nice to hear from you. Hope all is well.
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If memory serves, our local HM rep Ollie (whom I adore and still miss, he now does double-decker bus sales) came in with the DM3 right before it hit the market and said HM was honoring a credit toward the price of a new DM3 for anyone who had a DM2 that was bought within a certain time frame.
I'm not sure if we didn't do a good job getting that message across to our local guys, or if your tool fell outside of that window.
I've not seen any repair problems with the DM3 as far as breakdowns of the head or fins (except one, and that was an abuse situation where the whole head had to be replaced). The biggest "repair" is that the set screw on the knob gets loose and can cause leaking from the knob. A quick tightening of the stem and nut underneath that knob fixes the leak 99.9% of the time.
