Dryer recommendations?
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| Well, a shop vac in reverse would certainly produce a ton of CFM and at a fairly good speed, but would be very noisy. Be sure that it is exceptionally clean inside, including the inside of the hose. While the air coming out is pretty clean, the really fine stuff would probably stick to wet hair very nicely. so be sure to use a hose dedicated to this task, never used for vacuuming. I would also be sure that the inside of the vac and the filter were clean, too.
I can't believe what I did after we lost our dog -- we sold his crate, his ramp...all for short money, and all now needing to be replaced. But the silliest thing I did was to not grab the standing professional dog dryer that someone had donated to NEOESR. It had a $50 price on it's head, and I actually had it stored in my loft for a couple of months until the sales event. Duh! |
| There was a long disucssion some time ago about why it was better to use professional hair dryers rather than high quality human ones, it was on this section.
Maybe Carl can share his wisdom on that matter. |
| This is the dryer I have...works great!
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/p ... 001+113230 |
| Butterscotch,
I posted a fairly thorough review about dog dryers under the grooming forum threads "Blow Dryer" and offered a few more comments on the thread "Dog Dryers Any Good". Both are now on page 4 of the Grooming Forum. Those posts should give you a good summary of what is necessary in a dog dryer and gives my opinions as to what constitutes good and bad features in dog dryers. I will unabashedly say I am a strong advocate of the Oster Professional series dryers complete with heating elements. I find that heat is necessary to get the job done properly and yet there has to be a balance between temperature and air flow to ensure that the coat is not dried out by overheating. Forced air dryers without heating elements such as those referenced by JakobandBrandonsmom are indeed becoming more popular but I find them to be very noisy when considering the duration for which they are used. (Noise stress is very significant for both groomer and more importantly, groomee. Too much noise for hours on end will cause one or both of you to "toss in the towel" before the job is properly done!) I realize that a good quality dryer is an enormous investment but they truly are worth "their weight in gold". They perform for hours at a time with no degradation and have service lives of many thousands of hours requiring absolutely minimal maintenance (cleaning, hair removal and wiping down after use is routine and takes but minutes). And if you amortize the cost over the life of even a single bobtail, let alone the several generations that they will undoubtedly dry their cost is extremely affordable, in essence almost negligable. Ours now cost less than $2.00 per month! As I noted in my earlier posts I have had ours for over 25 years and there is no reason to believe they won't serve that long yet again. Ron, the use of a shop vac, even brand new and clean, carries with it the risk of "windburn" to the skin due to the enourmous volume of air that they move. I recommend against their use - just a conservative safe approach when it comes to my boys' health and care. Even dryers such as those referenced by JakobandBrandonsmom don't run anywhere near those sorts of volumes. Certainly grooming equipment manufacturers would have adapted shop vacs simply in a "re-badged format" if they were suitable thus saving on development and production costs. As always feel free to post further questions or comments on the forum or directly through a PM or direct e-mail. |
| I just use a cheap human hair dryer, and it has been fine.... until today. It blew up and almost put a hole in my head. I was drying my hair this morning, and thank goodness I wasn't aiming it at my head or face at that moment, because the blade flew off, hit the guard, a piece snapped off and launched itself right into the drywall behind me. I need a new one. LOL |
 Good lord!!! I'm so glad you're ok! I imagine it left a nice dent in your drywall though! thanks heavens you didn't have it pointed at your face- we might've lost you! Now I know why I don't use one- scary!!!
Karen |
Talk about luck! I'm glad you're Okay... My avatar just passed out thinking what could've happened.  |
OMG, Stacey!!  How scary is that! I'm SO glad you're okay. I shudder when I think of what could have happened. How could you stay so cool??
Chris |
| LOL... well, after staring at the chunk of metal stuck in the drywall, I shrugged, put my hair in a ponytail, and left for work, otherwise I would have missed out on my morning Tim Horton's coffee, and we can't have that now! LOL |
| Take a photo of it and send it to the company, they might want to change something. |
| Yes, I've thought about that, I still might.... |
| I have the Oster table top dryer...I find that it is inconvenient not to have both hands free. It has three settings as well as an air only setting...Most of the time I find the air only setting to do the job well. Oster also has a stand dryer for double the price. I have used this in a grooming salon but did not like it as well as my table top dryer. I think they run just under $200 new. It's worth the investment!
That is a terrible incident you had with your dryer Stacey! You and your sheepies were very fortunate not to be in the line of fire! I have never heard of such a thing-it certainly wouldn’t hurt letting the company know, maybe they will need to recall that line. Izzie's Mom |
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