In article <416d42b1.345728281@news.galilei.com>,
raiar@bbs.galilei.com.nospam (Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.) wrote:
> "Mrs Bonk" <arse@cutey.com> verbositized:
>
> >
> >I was a little confused on this one until I realised that the 'hose' is not
> >the vacuum hose but a stocking. I think that's the case Gary dear? I do
> >snip tights and elastic band the toe over the pipe to pick up little things
> >that I've dropped.
>
> I have an old 2 lb Folgers plasti-can from the year they tried
> packaging coffee in them. I cut two round holes in the top and
> installed shop-vac fittings into the holes. The outlet hole has a
> screen on it, and for the intake I have a very lightweight clear
> plastic hose about 3 feet long with a wide bladelike attachment.
> Looks like a crevice tool only about 5 times wider at the tip.
> It works great for picking up all kinds of dropped things, and being
> clear plastic, you can see when it picks up that lost earring or
> whatever. I initially made the device when my son knocked over a
> large size pail of BBs in the garage over a gridlike floor.
Past the nozzle, would the air flow in the hose be fast enough to life
BBs? Did you ever hear of magnets?
Why would you stockpile a large pail of BBs in your garage? Are you
afraid the FBI will storm your house? What are you hiding?
What's a gridlike floor? Did you mean griddlelike? Do you make
pancakes in your garage?
>
> >> You can dry a kitchen floor after mopping fairly quickly using the
> >> blower side of the vacuum.
>
> Someone pointed out getting dust on the clean kitchen floor.
Someone whose name is well known to discerning diners. If you won't
plug me, I won't plug your House of Garage Floor Pancakes.
> I keep a set of wands and short cheap swimming pool hose just for
> using the blower feature of the vacuum.
With a good mop and wringer, a kitchen floor should dry in minutes. If
you need air, a fan will move a larger volume for 2% of the electricity
of a vacuum.
> In addition, I had a step daughter who was allergic to everything, so
> when we vacuumed her room, we used the hose on the blower side from
> the vacuum to the bedroom window, so that particulates that pass
> through the vacuum filter would blow outside.
Did it ever occur to you that her allergies were caused by stress, such
as the constant noise of drying a kitchen floor with a vacuum cleaner?
>
> >
> >
> >I can't picture this either! Oh no! How awfully yucky. Please say it's not
> >true
>
> When you get a runny nose that seems to eminate from behind the
> eyeballs, try it sometime. Use your hand and a hankie as the safety
> release so you don't suck your eyeballs through your sinuses and into
> the vacuum cleaner, hi hi.....
Do you remember to check the bag for gray matter? I suppose if it
occurred to you at all, you'd forget.
>
> >
> >I wish I'd kept my old Vax. It was so handy for lots of jobs like cleaning
> >drains and sucking up spills and cleaning out my fish tank.
>
> That's where having an empty container with a couple of holes in it
> like mentioned above comes in handy. They also make squeege head
> vacuum attachments to help get ALL the water up.
> If you can find an old plastic water bottle like the kind for water
> coolers, most vacuum hoses will fit the top tight enough, sometimes
> with a few turns of electrical tape to make it larger and fit snugger.
> Then all you need to do is make a hole in the side near the top the
> size of whatever plastic hose you can come up with.
> You can glue a PVC 90 degree 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 inch plumbers elbow into
> the hole in the side with the inlet pointing downward and to this you
> can attach most size hoses using various plumbing fittings and clamps.
You must be a troll from alt.vacuum.repair. Any droplets that get into
a regular vacuum cleaner are likely to be harmful. Wet-or-dry vacs and
carpet cleaners are designed to do that without all your jury rigging.
My carpet cleaner has a cannister eighteen inches in diameter, which
means it would be a lot easier to find a missing item in debris and dust
than it would be with your coffee cannister.
>
> I do liquid product packaging as a sideline. Over the years I have
> built a filling machine to fill the bottles, which can now do 12
> bottles at once.
I though you Knoxville folk put your liquid product in milk jugs. That
explains why you stockpile BBs. You're expecting a raid by the ATF,
aren't you?
Speaking of raids, readers know that if they raid their refrigerator and
find it empty, they can come on down to Barbecue Bob's.
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