What is a glide?
A Glide is a device that attaches to the head of a
carpet cleaning wand to make the wand work better,
and be less tiring to use for the operator as well. It
can be made from Teflon, or any other material that will
give the required performance characteristics the cleaner
is looking for. Some wand glides are designed to fit over
the wand's lips, while some are designed to fit within
the vacuum slot, either because the wand has no attachable
lips, or because the glide works better there. Our Superglides
are all precision engineered and produced on CNC machines
and compression molds to deliver the operating and performance
capabilities most in demand by today's cleaners. They
may be made of either virgin Teflon or a filled Teflon
composite to deliver the performance you are looking for.
If they are not Teflon, they are not Superglides.
What will your Glides do for me?
* Dramatically reduce muscle fatigue by up to 80% or more
* Decrease dry times. Sometimes to as little as an hour
.
* Reduce the stress injures that result from pushing a
wand.
* Increase customer satisfaction of the service performed.
* Allow you to clean any type of surface you wish.
* Stop damage to baseboards and furniture from happening.
* Eliminate both streaking and wand chattering
* Improve productivity by up to 32% .
What are the benefits of a Superglide
and how does it work?
Teflon is our material of choice in our Superglides
for one very simple reason: It works the best! It
is the most slippery material on Earth. Glides made from
it or one of it's composite mixtures slide more easily
on the carpet than glides made of any other material.
A wand with a Teflon glide on it makes an operators job
more comfortable and profitable. Stress from the act of
pushing a wand, is considerably reduced so that most injures
are eliminated. Many cleaners that had to stop using a
wand and switched over to rotary tools, have gone back
to wanding once again as a result of our Superglides.
Wanding with a Superglide
on your wand will allow you to wand up to 32% faster than
before with NO drop off in cleaning quality, and with
less energy expended than you are using now. This
not only leaves you with more energy at the end of the
day, but more money as well. You can use this extra time
you have to do more work and make more money, OR use it
to finish your work sooner and have more time and energy
to spend with family and freinds. Your choice.
The next greatest advantage of the Superglide
is the ability to help you deliver Cleaner, DRIER CARPETS
to your customers. The rounded shape of the Superglides
allow them to ride higher on the carpeted surfaces, and
not dig down into the carpet fibers like what happens
to wands that rest on thin steel lips like most wands
do. That causes a huge loss of potential airflow(CFMS)
to be lost to the wand. It is the reason that most wands
will flow less than 100 cfms with the wand on the carpet,
even when connected to blowers with well over 300 cfms
capacity.With the Superglides
on the same wands, CFMS often rise above 160 cfms during
cleaning. That 60% or greater performance improvement
in airflow makes a big difference how much soil and water
is left in the carpet. The proper amount of lift(8"HG+)
is automatically maintained when the cfms increase this
way. The hole design we originated back in 2003 works
best to accomplish this. Holes allow a smoother transition
into the glide and wand than a slot could provide. The
wider 1/4" opening that our Superglides use assures
that there will be no jamming of debris in the holes taking
place even if no pre-vac is done prior to cleaning.
Why does the carpet dry faster?
The number one thing that determines how fast a carpet
dries is how much water is left in it after cleaning.
That is determined by how fast the air is being
drawn through the carpet fibers as it enters the glide
or wand lips .Increase the amount of air entering the
wand (CFMS), and you increase the speed of the air entering
the wand/glide as well. Most wands take in air at the
rate of 5000+ ft/minute without a glide on. Increasing
the cfms by 60% more will increase the intake velocity
to about 8000+ ft/min. But there is a better way than
that. By building a 50% restriction on the glide face
with holes that the air must go through, the speed of
the air moves up to the 12,000 to 15,000 ft/minute range
at the holes. This is much more effective at drawing the
water from the carpet. The rounded bottom of the glide
reaches to the carpet back to do this more effectively
as well.
The Superglides eliminate
streaking that can occur with many 4 and 6 jet wands as
well. They do this with the Hydro-Glide effect that
happens when a jet of water travels down the face of the
glide surface, rather than being driven into the carpet's
primary backing, where it can take days to dry. Because
the greatest heat loss of the water droplets takes place
during aeration of the water from the jets, the water
transported to the carpet fibers via a side shearing action
is actually hotter than the water that travels direct
down into the fibers. You can usually turn your water
pressure up 200 psi higher when this occurs and still
deliver dryer carpets faster to your customers. The higher
flows generated also cleans better because of the greater
flushing action that higher gpm flows allow.
Do the holes clog with debris on
the Superglide?
Almost never now. 18 months ago, when the glides
would have holes of 5/32", it could happen if a good
pre-vac was not done on the carpet prior to cleaning.
Our current Superglides
have eliminated this as a problem by going to 1/4"
holes now. The 1/4" holes are in most cases now larger
in diameter than the 3/16" diameter that most wand
makers gap their wand lips at. The larger holes have been
shown to dry carpet faster and clean better than even
the glides that used to be made with even 3/16" holes,
so we made 1/4" our standard size now.
Will the Superglides fit most wands?
Yes! Because we are the originators of this style
of glide design, and have made thousands of them, we can
tell you that we have designs to fit well over 90% of
the wands on the market now, including the hard to fit
ones with no lips or that come in funny shapes as well
.In March 2005, Turboteck will be bring out a new glide
design that only us or our distributors will be able to
sell to glide buyers. We will be selling 6 different glide
types to fit 98% of the industries glides. Currently,
over 50% of all 2 jet wands can be fitted by just our
SS802 Superglide alone. Superglide
available for these carpet cleaning wands.
Wishing all our customers happy gliding in 2005,
Regards,
Ken Harris
President
Turboteck Supplies
www.morecfm.com
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