Thread Number: 17444
Jet Dry in my NEW Rainbow?? |
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Post# 188003 , Reply# 3   7/3/2012 at 00:29 (4,286 days old) by shelly (california)   |   | |
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Thanks gentlemen, you both answered my questions. I may give that JetDry a try and I will also be less fussy about drying the pan. Shelly |
Post# 188014 , Reply# 4   7/3/2012 at 06:43 (4,286 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Shelly.............If you do use it, only use a drop or two! Or else it will foam. I'm not sure how GREAT a drop of JetDry is doing. It's probably overkill.
William...... I change the water frequently too but I don't take any chances and clean my separator every time. I've always been a frequent water changer and used to not clean my separator often at all because it didn't look dirty, I would just hold it under water and rinse it. One day I cleaned it with a toothbrush in the grooves and it was dirty. It wasn't that bad though, but even still, you don't want any dirt on that separator. It must happen very slowly because when I clean it each time, there is never a sign of any dirt on it or the toothbrush I use to clean it. The material and color of the separator make it very hard to tell whether or not it's dirty, so I always just clean it. Takes one minute. |
Post# 188021 , Reply# 5   7/3/2012 at 07:16 (4,286 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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I have two separators for each machine I own. When I've finished vacuuming, I take the used one off and put it in the dishwasher and install the clean one. In my area, the water is VERY hard. It's almost undrinkable too. Most people around here use a product called Lemishine in the dishwasher. I'm told that it's basically just citric acid. I pour a little in with the detergent for the main wash cycle. The company also makes a rinse aid. I don't know what its chemical composition is, but I use that sometimes in my Rainbows. |
Post# 188177 , Reply# 7   7/3/2012 at 21:25 (4,285 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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Yes, the AquaWet is still made, as far as I know. CLICK HERE TO GO TO floor-a-matic's LINK |
Post# 188248 , Reply# 8   7/4/2012 at 07:51 (4,285 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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the old style bottles Rexair used to use. I've seen no Aquawet in any new style bottles so I wonder if this site is just selling stock?
I could be wrong, but since I'm not seeing any Aquawet for sell in any new style bottles, I'm guessing they don't make it anymore - unless they still make it and use the same style bottles, which wouldn't make sense since they changed the styles of all bottles, including the small bottles of scents and the bottles of shampoo, D&A, etc. |
Post# 188282 , Reply# 10   7/4/2012 at 14:31 (4,284 days old) by swiveltop (Galveston, TX)   |   | |
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Oops, D4 SE Not DE SE |
Post# 188284 , Reply# 11   7/4/2012 at 14:53 (4,284 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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I tried that once!! It does sound like it would not only act as a wetting agent, but also the smell would be nice, but the time I tried putting a little fabric softener in the water, it did FOAM way too much, so I had to turn it off and dump the water and use new water.....I didn't even put that much fabric softener so not sure why it foamed. It was just regular fabric softener, nothing special.
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Post# 188378 , Reply# 14   7/4/2012 at 19:30 (4,284 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Shelly. I know that sound that you're talking about and NO it's not good. If the machine does that, stop it, dump the water and put fresh in. I know the JetDry foams so that's why I only used literally a drop or no more than two, any more than that and it will foam......I don't put it on all the time and certainly don't put it in the water for scent purposes, but just to make the water better at trapping dirt........I'm sure it's overkill and I don't put it in every time. I actually put some jet dry in an eye dropper bottle so I could literally get "drops" instead of trying to pour in straight in from the container it comes in......
I AGREE about the essential oils...........I use them all the time. I loved the Rexair scents, but after using essential oil instead, it makes the Rexair scents smell nasty to me. The essential oil smells REAL, natural and not chemically.....I think Pine needle oil or orange oil is my fav, next up would be lemon. |
Post# 188379 , Reply# 15   7/4/2012 at 19:38 (4,284 days old) by shelly (california)   |   | |
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Mark, I did that immediately! I also love the essential oil in the water, the only Rainbow fragrance that I really like is the apple blossom because it's the scent that my aunt used when I vacuumed her house as a teen. |
Post# 188385 , Reply# 16   7/4/2012 at 21:29 (4,284 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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This is what I use. It doesn't foam at all. It's supposed to be all natural, and I think it's made from citric acid. This is the only product that most people use in our area, along with the granulated additive in the main wash cycle of the dishwasher. CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekastar's LINK |
Post# 188407 , Reply# 17   7/4/2012 at 23:17 (4,284 days old) by shelly (california)   |   | |
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That must smell really good, I'll give it a try. |
Post# 188431 , Reply# 18   7/5/2012 at 08:05 (4,284 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Well, if it doesn't work in your rainbow you can always use it in your dishwasher. I've heard of LemiShine & actually used it, but I wasn't aware they made liquid Rinse aid. I just try to be careful about foaming because you do not want that water in the basin to foam. Even the Big green Bottle of deodorizer foams like crazy in my basin- and I'm NOT talking about the knock off D&A, I'm talking about the Rexair made D&A. William mentioned to me that he notices it foams too much as well. If I put the recommended amount of that stuff in the basin, it produces way too much foam. The small bottles of scents don't do that nor does the essential oil. My carpets really don't have any residue in them because I've mostly used white vinegar to clean them with the steam cleaner and if I do use shampoo I only use a little and it gets rinsed.........I don't think it's a case of too much residue in carpets. The water here is not soft, it's moderately hard.
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Post# 188451 , Reply# 19   7/5/2012 at 11:10 (4,283 days old) by shelly (california)   |   | |
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Okay, so give me the bad news. What does the foam do to the machine and what should I do if it already happened? |
Post# 188955 , Reply# 21   7/7/2012 at 21:22 (4,281 days old) by shelly (california)   |   | |
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What is DAF? |
Post# 188959 , Reply# 22   7/7/2012 at 21:36 (4,281 days old) by Trebor ()   |   | |
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D eodorizer and A ir F reshener |
Post# 188961 , Reply# 23   7/7/2012 at 21:56 (4,281 days old) by shelly (california)   |   | |
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Oh, thank you! |
Post# 189013 , Reply# 24   7/8/2012 at 13:01 (4,280 days old) by cleaningbuff (Quincy, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 189027 , Reply# 25   7/8/2012 at 14:35 (4,280 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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The new hose I think is 12 inches longer than the previous ones I think.
OH.............And about the Rexair green bottle of DAF, I have to use LESS than even the recommended amount, or it STILL foams, I literally have to use drops of it. The directions say 2 cap fulls (foams way too much) so I dropped it to one cap full (still foams way too much), so I stopped using it. The only way it doesn't foam is if I use a few drops of it. And I have hard water. I thought it was just a bad bottle I have but Rob mentioned to me that he notices it foaming too even with the recommended amount. |
Post# 189028 , Reply# 26   7/8/2012 at 15:08 (4,280 days old) by cleaningbuff (Quincy, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 189036 , Reply# 27   7/8/2012 at 15:46 (4,280 days old) by shelly (california)   |   | |
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My hose is 7ft long, excluding the connector and pistol grip. |