Has anyone out there tried using one of the robot vacuums for cleaning a table?
Robot Vacuum for cleaning table?
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We have a robot for the house and it is one of the best presents you can get the person who runs the vacum (I can't say your wife because it is not PC). I never realized how much vacuuming is needed to keep a house clean. That little sucker cleans the whole house over the course of a week and it does a great job. We have the "industrial" model. I could go on but I’ll leave it there.
I doubt that it will do a very good job on the pool table. The robot's brushes and the dirt collection box get dirty and have a considerable amount of debris on the base. Some of this junk would be transferred to the pool table cloth. If you had one machine for cleaning the table it might work, though it would be expensive. The machine uses a horizontally rotating brush to sweep the material into a vertically rolling set of brushes. Because it has a random direction pattern the cloth would be brushed in all sorts of ways.
I clean my table with the red hand held dirt devil with the brushes oriented down the long rail towards the foot spot and this does a good job. For the most part it cleans under the rails to some extent. The newer Hand helds have an attachment that can be used for under the rails though I do not find it necessary to use this but every six months or so to collect dust.
I like new technology and often buy into it for the fun of it. These robots are good but I do not think they are for use on a pool table where we have other requirements.
BTW the extended sweeper brush would probably get most of the way under a rail. I haven't measured it but the sweeper brush does extend out a little way.
I doubt that it will do a very good job on the pool table. The robot's brushes and the dirt collection box get dirty and have a considerable amount of debris on the base. Some of this junk would be transferred to the pool table cloth. If you had one machine for cleaning the table it might work, though it would be expensive. The machine uses a horizontally rotating brush to sweep the material into a vertically rolling set of brushes. Because it has a random direction pattern the cloth would be brushed in all sorts of ways.
I clean my table with the red hand held dirt devil with the brushes oriented down the long rail towards the foot spot and this does a good job. For the most part it cleans under the rails to some extent. The newer Hand helds have an attachment that can be used for under the rails though I do not find it necessary to use this but every six months or so to collect dust.
I like new technology and often buy into it for the fun of it. These robots are good but I do not think they are for use on a pool table where we have other requirements.
BTW the extended sweeper brush would probably get most of the way under a rail. I haven't measured it but the sweeper brush does extend out a little way.
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We are on our third Roomba and second Scooba. I am pretty familiar with how they work, having rebuilt the bump sensors and several other "defects" on earlier Roombas.
I think I am qualified to say:
Do not -ever- let a Roomba on your pool table.
The drive wheels, the center wheel, the brush - I wouldn't want any of that near my cloth.
I think I am qualified to say:
Do not -ever- let a Roomba on your pool table.
The drive wheels, the center wheel, the brush - I wouldn't want any of that near my cloth.
Really you guys have the wrong idea about this - Strap a cue shaft to the robot vacuum cleaner, download Visual Pool 3 into it's RAM banks and you have yourself a robo training device. Better still it can use its vacuum to pull the balls out of the pocket and rack them for you. (You just have to integrate a Sardo into it's chassis.)
Hmm, where did I leave those patent applications?
Hmm, where did I leave those patent applications?
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And the random pattern contradicts the ancient method of brushing in 1 direction. :grin: