Squeegee Blade Description: Let's Simplify the Confusion!

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Squeegee Blade Description: Let’s Simplify the Confusion!

It’s all too confusing to the laymen who orders the parts for their sweeper/scrubber. There are many components that make up the machine to achieve efficient scrubbing. First you have the scrub deck component. This is the area where the scrub brushes are housed. The scrub brushes could be cylindrical or disc brush in nature. The disc brush is also known as rotary brushes. This scrub deck component usually houses, if cylindrical style, two brushes. They are located one in front of the other. If equipped with rotary brushes, there could be two, three or four brushes. The number of rotary brushes directly results in the size of the machine. As you are sitting on the machine, the scrub deck is usually located directly under the operator‘s seat. As the machine is moving forward with the solution detergent cleaning the floor by the brushes, there is a tendency of this solution going all over the place, if not for the scrub deck side squeegees. Their purpose is to capture this cleaning detergent and

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direct it to the rear of the machine. As one is sitting on the machine, there is a left hand and right-hand scrub deck side squeegee assembly. These assemblies in most cases are made up of two squeegees. In this case the squeegees aren’t that confusing when ordering. They are in most cases referred to as “inside squeegees and outside squeegees”. Some manufacturers, however, use the reference as front and rear. Are you following me so far?

It doesn’t really get confusing until we continue back to the rear squeegee. The sole purpose of this component is to capture all the dirty water and solution. At this point it is vacuumed through the rear squeegee hose, aka: rear vacuum hose. The rear squeegee is made up of two squeegees positioned in such a way as to create a vacuum chamber. This vacuum chamber created has great suction power one can only imagine. If you have to order these squeegees by descriptions, this is where it sometimes gets confusing. Of course, it is always best to order your parts via part number. Then there is no mystery. However, some of the cleaning machine manufacturers refer to these squeegees as “front” and “rear” squeegees. For simplicity, I have always referred to these squeegees as “inside” and “outside”. You say, ”Mike, what is the difference”? A great deal I believe. Especially, when you order the squeegees on a Thursday and need them by Friday for the weekend. You always want to make sure you order and receive the correct squeegees. Read this out loud and see how silly this sounds. I want to order the “front rear squeegee, the rear squeegee, both front side squeegees and both rear side squeegees.” You think I am kidding? I’m not and over the years have heard it all. Now let’s try it with inside and outside put into the mix. “I want to order the inside rear squeegee, the outside rear squeegee, and both inside and outside side squeegees”. Now if you are going to go through the process of making sure the descriptions are understandable, you’re going to have the part numbers up front as well. So, this is really an exercise or an article on the correctness of descriptions on a sweeper/scrubber? Yes, it could be. But when you start to look at all the parts it takes to make-up a sweeper/ scrubber, then you can begin to appreciate having the correct description. And I will give you more examples.