William Strickler—January 5, 2017
I have not used mine yet. To get away from harmful chemicals, I used vinegar as my most common cleaner for toilets, sinks, tile walls and floors, and showers. Vinegar works well on hard water deposits, even long neglected deposits. But brushing is slow and tiring and hard on older wrists. This product along with a battery operated drill appears to solve that problem. If you drop a corded drill in water, you could be electrocuted to death in a split second. If you drop a 20 volt or less battery operated drill in water, there is probably little or no medical danger, except it could ruin the drill. If this product becomes a necessity for anyone with a battery operated drill, I think it will lead to specialized drill brushes with longer bits and different size brushes. I know I will use this product. I don't know the long term durability of this product. But to prove its worth, it does not have to hold up as long as a hand brush because of its ease of use compared to scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing. I can also see using this product along with vinegar to clean a pan that food got burned in it. Just be careful not to spin it above the pan as the charred food and vinegar water could fly and make a mess. The drill should be variable speed assuming that some el-cheapo drills might not be. It does not say, but I think this would work with some vinegar or laundry detergent to clean oil or other very difficult to remove dirt from rugs, door mats, car floor mats, and perhaps carpets. This simply feels like and appears to be just a nylon brush that is securely attached to a drill bit. It does say to wear eye protection. Yes, I know a fast moving brush will fling what ever dirt is on it into the air if you are not perfectly careful all of the time. A simple every day toilet brush will do this without being attached to a high speed drill. I think this product is cheap enough for the average owner of a cordless drill to keep a couple of these around for cleaning. I just thought of another use: Cleaning my stove top, use this to loosen the grime and then a dish rag to wipe the grime away. Read more
Doug Landon—March 8, 2018
I have purchased many rotary Drillbrush cleaning attachments from this company and they have all been exceptional products. The brushes easily fit in any drill and come in a variety of shapes and stiffness for any cleaning task. I've used them to clean tile, grout, for light paint removal and most recently on the coffee cups that seem to collect around the house with dried on gunk. They last for years and take any job you throw at them! I appreciate the fact that this is a USA-based company with real tech support in this country. Forget the cheap knockoffs and get the real thing from the company that invented the product! You will not be disappointed. Read more
Carlgo—March 8, 2012
Why in 2012 is there brake dust? Nobody has figured out a way to deal with this? Many tons of this stuff must be spewed onto roads and runways every day. Can't be good. And I truly hate cleaning this. It really isn't dust, but rather a nasty, sticky substance that clings tenaciously to the wheels. I have tried the usual worthless cleaners and even tried to fabricate my own drill operated brush, but with no success. The Drill Brush had the right shape and presumably the right bristles to do it right, so I bought it. Attached it to a drill, dipped the brush into a bucket of car soap and...hey, it works! My car sits happily outside with nice shiny wheels and it did not take but a few minutes. Not bad at all. Things I learned: go with slow speeds. High speed does not help. I set my drill to the high torque, low speed setting and that made it easier to control. Don't do this while wearing a white designer suit. Use the reverse setting half the time. Don't press too hard. Let the brush do the work. It works on wheels with gaps between the spokes of around two inches or greater. Gratiot Garage sells a brush on Amazon designed for the lug nut openings and that would make a good companion to this one for many kinds of wheels. I only used the brush once, but it held up, didn't lose any bristles and looks like it will last. Again, not forcing it is important. It will not remove the debris that is stuck into the wheels. What happens is that the brakes shower off very hot particles and they burn their way into the wheels and this does not come off easily, so while the dust is gone, the black pits are still there. I am still looking for a solution for this. Perhaps a felt wheel with some sort of compound. And then there are wheel waxes that supposedly repel the filth and make the wheels easier to clean. The carmakers need to deal with this and come up with something halfway modern, but likely the materials they use now are cheap and wear out often enough to generate more visits to the friendly dealership. And I will try to stay away from wheels with lots of spokes and narrow openings. Read more
Reviewer—October 11, 2015
It is sometimes hard to find a product that does what it is supposed to do. This was not one of those times. This product is absolutely great! I am using the Original Drillbrush - Stiff on what I consider a tough, yet delicate job; the chrome wheels on my 25th Anniversary TownCar. The inner parts of the wheel "spoke" openings are of a textured surface where the disc brake dust loves to stick and accumulate. Because there was plenty of room for the brush head, it fit nicely with its tapered head, and got in all the corners. A reversible drill makes it work well from both sides of a valve stem. It did not harm the chrome at all, but I did not use it on the smooth parts. I consider this a best-buy. It sure saves a lot of hard scrubbing work. Read more