Happy New Year everyone! I wonder if I could get a little advice and wisdom from y'all very well informed AZB'ers.
Here's the thing, I don't vacuum my pool table nearly as often as I think I should. I play on it everyday for at least 2 hours. I brush the cloth once a week or so, but I don't really start thinking about vacuuming the surface until I actually begin to notice the gritty feeling of chalk dust on the balls. Seriously, I'd like to clean the table a lot more often, but I have this stupid, low suction, super noisy Shark brand hand-vac with a filter that takes a lot of time to clean out, the attachments are smallish so that vacuuming the table takes a lot of focus and way too much time, and the stupid vacuum sometimes over-heats and shuts itself off for an hour until it's cooled down.
So, next week I'm going to have the bubblegum-pink napped cloth removed from my table and I'm having dark pink Simonis 860 cloth installed. So yesterday afternoon, as I was shooting drills, I noticed that the balls felt a little gritty. I thought to myself that I don't have anything to lose since the napped cloth is going away in a few days anyway, and I pulled out my heavy duty, high suction Dyson vacuum. I know, I know, I'm not suppose to put high suction on pool table cloth because it pulls up the fibers and can distort the cloth. But, to mitigate the powerful suction, I used an attachment that came with the Dyson vacuum. It looks like this:
This is intended for getting under things, and it has stiff bristle brushes around the edges that stick out, thereby creating an airspace of about a quarter inch underneath the attachment so that the suction isn't quite so intense up against the cloth. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the attachment is 4 inches wide and 12 inches long. I cleaned the attachment up really well, and I used the attachment's brushes just as I would any brush, going in one direction from the head to the foot of the table. I moved the attachment at a smooth, steady pace with the vacuum on, not lingering on any one spot. It made vacuuming the table super easy and quick. After vacuuming, I followed up with a nice brisk brushing of the cloth with the regular table brush.
So, here's my question... do y'all think that I might be able to get away with using an attachment like this with a high suction vacuum without damaging the new Simonis 860 cloth that I'm having installed? What if I got an extension tube to put between the vacuum and the attachment so that I could poke holes into the additional tube, you know, to kind of vent the suction and make it even less intense? What I'm hoping to get to is to be able to use this larger attachment that efficiently picks up the chalk dust quickly and easily without causing damage to the cloth. I would love some feedback.
Thank you.
Katie
Here's the thing, I don't vacuum my pool table nearly as often as I think I should. I play on it everyday for at least 2 hours. I brush the cloth once a week or so, but I don't really start thinking about vacuuming the surface until I actually begin to notice the gritty feeling of chalk dust on the balls. Seriously, I'd like to clean the table a lot more often, but I have this stupid, low suction, super noisy Shark brand hand-vac with a filter that takes a lot of time to clean out, the attachments are smallish so that vacuuming the table takes a lot of focus and way too much time, and the stupid vacuum sometimes over-heats and shuts itself off for an hour until it's cooled down.
So, next week I'm going to have the bubblegum-pink napped cloth removed from my table and I'm having dark pink Simonis 860 cloth installed. So yesterday afternoon, as I was shooting drills, I noticed that the balls felt a little gritty. I thought to myself that I don't have anything to lose since the napped cloth is going away in a few days anyway, and I pulled out my heavy duty, high suction Dyson vacuum. I know, I know, I'm not suppose to put high suction on pool table cloth because it pulls up the fibers and can distort the cloth. But, to mitigate the powerful suction, I used an attachment that came with the Dyson vacuum. It looks like this:
This is intended for getting under things, and it has stiff bristle brushes around the edges that stick out, thereby creating an airspace of about a quarter inch underneath the attachment so that the suction isn't quite so intense up against the cloth. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the attachment is 4 inches wide and 12 inches long. I cleaned the attachment up really well, and I used the attachment's brushes just as I would any brush, going in one direction from the head to the foot of the table. I moved the attachment at a smooth, steady pace with the vacuum on, not lingering on any one spot. It made vacuuming the table super easy and quick. After vacuuming, I followed up with a nice brisk brushing of the cloth with the regular table brush.
So, here's my question... do y'all think that I might be able to get away with using an attachment like this with a high suction vacuum without damaging the new Simonis 860 cloth that I'm having installed? What if I got an extension tube to put between the vacuum and the attachment so that I could poke holes into the additional tube, you know, to kind of vent the suction and make it even less intense? What I'm hoping to get to is to be able to use this larger attachment that efficiently picks up the chalk dust quickly and easily without causing damage to the cloth. I would love some feedback.
Thank you.
Katie
. This machine can suck a golf ball through a garden hose! This was done about once a month for 14 years and I never had a problem. When it was time to trade up for the Diamond I was lucky enough to meet Glen aka RKC and decided that maybe I should use a shopvac type vacuum cleaner and a brush attachment.
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