My long overdue review of the CX-15. (Main body of the review starts in paragraph 3, for those who dont want to read through my preliminary thoughts.) Now, when I first saw Bridgepoints teaser videos for the CX-15 (then referred to as project Whirlwind, or something to that effect), I was intrigued. When they unveiled it, and I saw what it was, my enthusiasm fell through the floor: this was essentially a simplified version of a Steamway Zinger, which, while Ive never seen one in action, I hadnt heard great things about. At best, it was a carpet version of an SX-15 spinning tile tool. Either way, I was sure this was going to be a bomb. Its going to either tiger-stripe like crazy, or its going to absolutely soak carpets. I dont even want to bring one in. Fortunately, Dad was the voice of reason (for once) and he told me to give it a chance. Fast forward a few days, and our brand new CX-15 box shows up. I was instantly impressed by how well-packaged it was, then with how easy it was to assemble, and with how well-built it seemed to be. My respect grudgingly grew. At least its going to be a well-built piece of junk. I didnt have an opportunity to actually test it, though, until a few days later. Now, Ive cleaned our showroom carpets here dozens and dozens of times over the years, using every system and technique imaginable. This carpet is garbage, and I know exactly how it responds. So, first I wanted to test whether it would tiger-stripe, as I was sure it would. To do this, I cleaned without pre-spray, so Id instantly see any missed areas. I also used the commercial jet bar, as opposed to the residential bar (the commercial bar uses two 15 degree jets, whereas the residential bar uses two 110 degree jets), because if one was going to tiger-stripe, itd be the commercial bar. Amazingly, it didnt tiger-stripe at all. I even tried moving at higher speeds, and it still didnt do it. Now, its possible that at really really high speeds you might get some tiger-striping, but youd pretty much have to be running down the hall. In a humorous twist, I actually found out how it would saturate the carpet by accident. I wasnt paying attention, and the van I was using had the pressure turned up to around 1000 psi for the first half of the carpet. After that, we turned it back down to normal operating range of ~400 psi. That first half of the carpet we cleaned at 1k did yellow... but only as much as this carpet yellows EVERY time I wet-clean this carpet if I dont immediately follow up with a bonnet, even when cleaning at normal (300-500 psi) ranges. The second half of the carpet, cleaned after we caught the excessive pressure and turned it down, didnt yellow at all, and still didnt tiger-stripe. Also, even at those lower pressures, and without pre-spray, it still cleaned beautifully. Also, this was all single-pass cleaning. One clean pass, no dry pass. My closing thoughts: this tool works wonderfully. My only caveat in this is that people need to understand that this is a drag-wand, which necessitates learning new cleaning patterns. If you try to use this wand in a standard back-and-forth wand-stroke, youre going to kill yourself and probably leave big puddles on your back-stroke. As long you understand this, and clean in patterns suited to drag-wands, youre going to be very happy. You can see the CX-15 here: interlinksupply/index.php?item_num=AW115 or stop in and see it at our showroom at 2508 Overland Ave. - Jamin
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:02:29 +0000
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