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[Sorta OT] Dust buster question
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:34:33 +1100, "Yowie"
wrote: I had one. It was great for cleaning up small spills - particularly wet spills. But it was such a cow to clean, it ended up growing a colony of something gross inside. Thats when it got chucked out. i wouldn't get another one. my experience echoes what seems everyone else is saying. The only one I ever had was battery operated, and it was pretty much useless. Now, if I could ever get the vacuum cleaner I had when i was a student, I'd kill forit. i t was an industrial one, that was effectiley a giant moter clipped to the top of a 20 litre metal bucket. you could suck up *anything* 9water included) and it owuld goo into the bucket rather than in the internals of the vacuum cleaner. it was deafening, but it was a great way to clean up spills of anything icky. I have one of the canister Bissell vacuum/carpet cleaner and it is great for picking up the small bits out of carpet. I originally got it to pick up bird seed from around the cockatiel cage, but it works just as well for kitty litter. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit, Spot, Princess and Furby with loving memories of Rocky (RB) video clips at http://tinyurl.com/29o8ck photos at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 |
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[Sorta OT] Dust buster question
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:08:33 -0600, Ted Davis wrote:
What does work is an *effective* standup dust pan that latches in the down position until you push down on the handle - it's trivial to sweep the litter into it in the down position, then dump it, and only then release the latch and hang it back up. I use a modified short, narrow broom that came with a useless home type standup dust pan from Walmart (no latch, so the pan tended to flip over and dump whole I was lifting it to the trash can) - I added a pin (small nail) to keep the head of the broom from twisting. The good pans were from Big Lots, but it was a one-off and they haven't had them since. Janitor supply stores might have something. I've got a couple of those cheap walmart brooms ;-) I agree they're not the greatest for any serious type cleanup, but I keep one by each litter box and can clean up around the box a couple times a day with just a couple swipes. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit, Spot, Princess and Furby with loving memories of Rocky (RB) video clips at http://tinyurl.com/29o8ck photos at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 |
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Dust buster question
On Feb 7, 12:16*pm, hopitus wrote:
Rowdous has even rushed in there before I close the door and in a short period of extreme bravery, *attacked* the Dyson as it stood in silence and nonthreatening stance, LOL. When Speedy Joe was a kitten we had a very cheap old sucky monster that my mum gave me and it used to get very hot so before putting it away we'd leave it out to cool down. Speedy Joe hated the sucky monster and would run when we got it out but afterwards he would sit there waiting for it to cool down then attack it while it was "asleep" Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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[Sorta OT] Dust buster question
"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:34:33 +1100, "Yowie" wrote: I had one. It was great for cleaning up small spills - particularly wet spills. But it was such a cow to clean, it ended up growing a colony of something gross inside. Thats when it got chucked out. i wouldn't get another one. my experience echoes what seems everyone else is saying. The only one I ever had was battery operated, and it was pretty much useless. Now, if I could ever get the vacuum cleaner I had when i was a student, I'd kill forit. i t was an industrial one, that was effectiley a giant moter clipped to the top of a 20 litre metal bucket. you could suck up *anything* 9water included) and it owuld goo into the bucket rather than in the internals of the vacuum cleaner. it was deafening, but it was a great way to clean up spills of anything icky. I have one of the canister Bissell vacuum/carpet cleaner and it is great for picking up the small bits out of carpet. I originally got it to pick up bird seed from around the cockatiel cage, but it works just as well for kitty litter. My parents have an ancient Bissel brand carpet sweeper which came with them when the emigrated from England to Australia. Like quite a few other English words that never made it to the Australian lexicon, I quickly learned that saying "Quick, get the bissel" if something dry got spilled was *not* an understandable phrase in Australian. I also have to remember to say Yo-gurt and Pro-ject (with the o sounding like 'oe' as in "Hoe") in Australian rather than how I used to pronounce them, "Yog-urt" "Proj-ect" in English (with the o sounding like hte o in 'dog'). I lost my English accent years ago (probably within a year of going to school here) but sometimes I still get caught out saying the wrong word or pronuncing the right word incorrectly. Yowie |
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