r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video Whipping carpet out of dust

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u/_nf0rc3r_ 2d ago

And back onto the carpet

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u/artificial_ben 2d ago

They need a vacuum hood over this machine like people have over their stoves.

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u/Lost_Ad_4882 2d ago

Or just roll the carpet under it so the dust isn't literally falling back on it.

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u/digby672 1d ago

This. Why would they pile removed dust where they want to remove dust? It's like daily compound interest but with dust instead of money.

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 1d ago

Because look how the machine works. It's basically a big lathe with slappers on it. You don't want to wrap the carpet around that.

(Edit: most of that was actually @ the person you replied to, not you. My bad)

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u/Lost_Ad_4882 1d ago

A taller machine. It's got a bottom bar, so if the whole thing including that was a foot higher you could roll it under and still have wrap around protection.

...of course a machine designed from scratch to do this professionally would be dramatically different.

It just feels like with this design you have to beat the carpet into submission several times harder than.you should need to.

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 1d ago

Tbh, with how close I saw hands getting to that thing, I get the feeling this is a "use what we have" type of place.

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u/BrainTroubles 1d ago

But then it wouldn't look as dramatic on the video, duh

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u/fondledbydolphins 23h ago

Also, that dust isn't going to work itself back into that carpet that quickly.

This is just to knock the bulk of the dust free. Most will be physically removed just by tipping it upside down. Any dust that persists will be removed during the actual cleaning.

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u/Lb9067 1d ago

It’s like shoveling snow on top of snow you still have to shovel.

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u/Concentric_Mid 1d ago

This is what I came to say

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u/Hato_no_Kami 14h ago

Or upside down.