Weird question to start the year

[Act One Cleaning]

Some time ago I bought a used Self contained floor machine. It runs hot. Now I either spring for a new vac motor assembly and hose ($300-ish) or I could just take off the vacuum nozzle and use it as a jackleg brush encapper.
Without the nozzle it could be pushed forward and backwards easily.
Hmmmm. With a tee and sprayer hose to prespray or hit tight spots, it could work!
If you were short on funds but loved to tinker, would you do it?

[NJP]

Honestly, junk it. You could buy other equipment pretty cheap now day that would work much better and look professional. JMO!

[encapman]

I don't think that machine would provide very much as a modified encap scrubber. My thought would be to go ahead and repair it; that way you'll have an additional extractor for whenever the time comes when you might have a call for it.

[Act One Cleaning]

It is an older Advance Aquaclean with an 18" rotary brush at the front. Did a fair job on a couple of floors before rolling belly up. Then I stumbled over this forum, dadgummit. Encapping seems to promise great work on large areas, the reason I bought the Aquaclean. So I thought "why not prespray, use the 175 to massage it in, then do a quick brush-n-rinse with the Aquaclean?"

Then I thought "I'll just give it a good going over so the motor doesn't overheat." Cleaned out the old stuff, used a polishing stick on the commutators, realised the motor is a bit loose. That would account for the brush sparking, as they are slightly out os symmetry. Now, to tighten the motor mounting bolts I have to get inside the attached blower housing. It is pressed on, but I think I can make a cut around the circumference, clean and tighten, then cold weld it back together.

After all that fun, It will probably still be a twenty year old paperweight, hahaha!

[encapman]

Hmm, I thought you were talking about a self contained extractor. If you're talking about an auto-scrubber - there's even less use for it in carpet care. Seriously, it won't cut the mustard. Sounds like something for Craigslist.  

[Act One Cleaning]

It'll keep me off the sofa to fiddle with it, at least. Then the Chief of Finance & Budget may decide to loosen the purse strings (or not)... It looks like This:

http://www.floormachineparts.com/Nilfisk...e_0001.jpg

[encapman]

Ahh, that's a walk behind self-contained extractor. I would suggest getting it back up and running again. It could prove to be useful for you at some point.

[Act One Cleaning]

Thanks, Rick. Can I ask, do you see any value in running it as a post encap rinse? I guess I'm hoping a hybrid encap/HWE with a cleaner looking carpet at the end. My concern is the obvious one; would a top rinse so dilute the Releasit the it would not crystallize properly? Are there other considerations?

[encapman]

If you wanted to do that, you could use Encap-Punch - it's an encapsulating rinse detergent. It's actually 3 products in 1...
Encap pre-spray. Encap rinse detergent. Encap bonnet/pad cleaner. Plus it's also CRI approved.

In most cases you wouldn't normally need to follow encapping with a rinse. However when there's a need for flushing the carpet with a periodic HWE, that extractor may come in handy. You could pre-scrub the carpet with Encap-Punch or Encap-Clean DS2, and then use the extractor to rinse the carpet. You may also need to use a little bit of defoamer. Our Foam-Guard works great in this kind of application.

[Act One Cleaning]

Thanks, Rick. I just printed it out for reference so when I get it going I don't have to ask all over.

I wonder if Releasit would clear up Swiss Cheese Memory Syndrome.

[encapman]

Sure enough. It'll encapsulate your thoughts.