Making Extractor

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mini1

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A while ago, I read somewhere that someone made an extractor out of their normal wet/dry van and some type of a special garden hose attachment spray nozzle. It was a cold water extractor, but they said it worked fairly well.



Anyone have any ideas or pictures? I'd like to make something where I could plug a garden hose into my regular vac suction line and use it as an extractor.
 
Bissel used to make a tap hookup all the way to the nozzle end. It has been discontinued, but there might be parts on the net. Also check ebay. It was kind of a fragile thing, but it served me well years ago.



Used a Shop Vac for suction with a very narrow end steel extractor crevice tool, with a 1 1/4" hose. How's that for a sentence. Anyways it worked well.
 
If you are pretty handy it would be better and cheaper to buy the parts from the manuf. and build the chassis yourself. The actual hardware would run about $800-1000 depending on how much you needed, like the hose/spray nozzle and other accessories, the rest of the price of an $1800 extractor is the tanks, chassis and markup. Depending on how creative you are you could get away with a full blown hot water extractor for around $800 which is a steal.
 
salty said:
Bissel used to make a tap hookup all the way to the nozzle end. It has been discontinued, but there might be parts on the net. Also check ebay. It was kind of a fragile thing, but it served me well years ago.



Used a Shop Vac for suction with a very narrow end steel extractor crevice tool, with a 1 1/4" hose. How's that for a sentence. Anyways it worked well.
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My oldest Bissell extractor works that way, and so did the Sears carpet cleaning attachment for their wet/dry vacs (talk about fragile! And it's discontinued too).



Note that neither of those sprayed as well as my Century/Ninja extractor, nor do any of my other comsumer-grade carpet cleaning machines. And the heater of the Century gets the water mighty hot; you'd have to crank up your water heater to match it.



So while you certainly *can* put together something that'll work, IME it won't work as well as a true, heated, commercial-grade extractor. Such units are often available used, and even if they need a little work they can be a good buy.



Oh, and I find that even my most narrow metal crevice tool still leaves more water behind than the small Bissell "upholstery nozzle" that came with my Big Green Powerbrush. I cobbled together an adaptor so I can use it on my Century and it always gets things drier than any of my (numerous) other choices. It has a built-in spray nozzle, so if you could figure out how to run your water line to it that might be a good way to DIY such a system. No, I haven't done that; I spray with the Century's sprayer and extract with the Bissell nozzle.



The Bissell part # is 2159154 "Uphol Assm Long" and the price was $14 last time I ordered one.
 
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