[Ian Rochester]

Mike, 

Can't compare it to CFR cos never used that, it does use water, but not as much as I expected and it's a lot quicker than using a standard hand tool.

We've been pre-spraying, agitating then extracting with the Drimaster set at about 50%, all the suites have been almost touch dry when finished, done draylon, brockades and a really bad tapestry suite that came up great with just one pass.

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

well i find it heavy on water about 220 lts on a suite how ever the suites i do are lifting ! so its 250 psi with full heat for me

how ever if you clean a nice suite thats not had six kids lieing all over it four five years the its not to bad on the water !

 how ever im not a one for turning the water off all the time so i guess i could save more water buy doing this but i carry 500lts of water all the time so its not a problem to me 

[Joe H]

Its probable, Susan, you are not using 220 litres actually suite cleaning (thats almost 50 gallons!), most of that your TM will be dumping to the dirty water tank because the water is getting so hot, and can then draw on cold water- the machine is protecting itself.

I know "we" get bad suites but I would be looking at the cleaning fluid you use and also - do you agitate to help the cleaning process? Using hand tools I am usually at 150 (ish) psi.

Rightly or wrongly I turn the revs down a bit on my TM when doing suites - it keeps the water cooler
a) not happy at so much heat on some uphol. fabrics b) TM is running cooler.

Perhaps someone with more TM experiance then I will tell me if I am likely to damage the engine running say at 3/4 throttle (ie am I putting a strain on it?).

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

Its probable, Susan, you are not using 220 litres actually suite cleaning (thats almost 50 gallons!), most of that your TM will be dumping to the dirty water tank because the water is getting so hot, and can then draw on cold water- the machine is protecting itself.

I know "we" get bad suites but I would be looking at the cleaning fluid you use and also - do you agitate to help the cleaning process? Using hand tools I am usually at 150 (ish) psi.

Rightly or wrongly I turn the revs down a bit on my TM when doing suites - it keeps the water cooler
a) not happy at so much heat on some uphol. fabrics b) TM is running cooler.

Perhaps someone with more TM experiance then I will tell me if I am likely to damage the engine running say at 3/4 throttle (ie am I putting a strain on it?).

jo i do pre spary frist and tempo bush (useing prochem fabic restorer)  iwhile the t.m. is on tick over heating up,  as for revs my t.m. never runs higher then the frist click of the swich which is a little over half power

i know i could save water if i wanted but haveing a lagre water tanks make you laszy ....

i like the new hand tool and ive used the lot of tools  trying to find the best for me and its down to two cfr and the new h.m. tool i binned the frist dry master after useing it for a week its was very poor