Car was brush with one-way valve

Dec 12, 2018 Last reply: 5 years ago 9 Replies

Does anyone remember those gadgets? I guess they're on Ebay - if you enter the right search terms.



The brush has a a wide bit of tubing attached. Bottom of tube holds a one-way valve. Dip tube in bucket of suds.



Shake up and down action "pumps" the suds uphill and into the soft brush. Are they still made? TIA



I suspect they were s*it ? They certainly looked it.

Probably made by the same company that made valour cloths brushes you pressed a trigger in the handle to reverse the direction. After a couple of years the plastic cam system broke and shot the bits across the room. Then there was the buttoneer, a bit like those tagging machines they use in shops for security tags on clothes.

Anyone remember the Ktel record vacuum. I had one of those, if you took out the silly foam pads and replaced them with carbon fibre brushes it worked but as shipped all it did was charge the disc up to about 10000 volts so you dropped it when you tried to pick it up!

Brian

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Appear on TV shopping channels occasionally, I tried one years ago and it was next to useless.

GH

Yep, that's the one. I guess all the money went into Marketing and not the product.

Pity, seemed like a good idea - no hosepipe, no electrics.

I remember K-tel from the early tv ads. Interesting history on wiki :

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Records, non-stick pans, veg slicers etc., and still going strong in N.America, UK and Aussie.

I'm surprised they're still earning on their back record catalogues from the

50s to 70s. I thought there was a time limit on royalties?

Agreed, thanks Jethro, Rod and all. Clearly not designed for the job.

I've order one of those 8 litre capacity, hand-pumped low pressure washers. They're on Ebay, sub £20, free postage and come with a soft brush and separate spray lance.

Ok, there's plenty of plastic bits to break but I'll happily settle for 2 -

3 years useage.

US companies are trying to push it to infinity (as is Sir Harry Webb this side of the pond).

I have a vague feeling there's a move that corporations can be credited as the authors - thus raising the possibility that the "author" can never die.

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