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My old steel brush finally gave up the ghost on a job in Boise last Tuesday
It was a brush I'd had for maybe eight years, the kind with the long handle you can add sections to. The wire just snapped off clean at the base on the third pass down a flue. In my experience, you can't really fix that, so I had to finish the job with my backup nylon brush, which just doesn't bite the same on heavy creosote. It got me thinking about how all my gear from when I started seems to be wearing out at once. Anyone have a steel brush brand they've stuck with for a good long while?
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benbrown6mo ago
Had a Master Sweep steel brush last almost a decade. The bristles finally wore to nubs, but the thing never broke.
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rowanjenkins6mo ago
A decade is wild but like, it's a brush. How much drama can a steel brush really have?
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kaimiller5mo ago
and honestly, that's the thing about cheap tools versus the good ones. With the Master Sweep, the handle and the base are solid metal, not that thin stamped steel that bends if you look at it wrong. I've had a few that the bristles would just fall out of the holes in the handle after a year or two, but the Master Sweep ones are crimped or welded in there proper. Plus the wood handle on mine has just gotten a nice patina from all the years of use, no splinters or cracks at all.
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