Ryobi Wants To Clean Your Paint Brushes
By Benjamen Johnson
After all the prepping and painting is over, you still have to clean your equipment. Ryobi is looking to make that last step a little easier with its paint brush cleaner. Plug in the cleaner, fill it with water or thinner, and it’ll supposedly clean any brush up to 3″ wide in a few seconds.
What’s more, they claim the cleaner will make your brushes last longer and perform better. Soft brushes rotate at 950RPM to “gently” clean the inserted paint brush. The 10″ x 11″ x 12″ cleaner weighs 4 lbs. and can hold up to 1 gallon of cleaning fluid.
The paint brush cleaner only seems to be available online at Home Depot for $30, but at least it looks like there’s free shipping.
Paint Brush Cleaner [Ryobi]
Paint Brush Cleaner [Home Depot]
November 12th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I can’t imagine seeing my painting sub using one of these - and for home use would cleaning this after it cleans the brush result in any saving of time?
November 12th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Now…..If it would clean 5 brushes at a time and last two weeks between cleaning solution changing, I would be interested.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I’m waiting for a paint brush cleaner that uses a laser.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
And I bet Ryobi will be happy to sell you replacement cleaner brushes too.
Gotta wonder how well it would clean the paint from the inner bristles without some sort of pump or spinner.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I hate cleaning brushes, so would welcome a “magic” machine, but Ryobi makes
some pretty horrible stuff. That detail sander they made was a horrible tool. Didn’t do a damn thing.
November 13th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I have to agree with dexm on this one. I’ve been painting professionally for 36 years and have thought about a machine to do this work, but I don’t think this is it. Like dexm, I tried Ryobi’s detail sander, but I disagree with him that it didn’t do a thing. It gave me occupational white hand something fierce. This has been renamed HAVS, or Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrone, and is caused by excessive vibration in handheld tools. I’ve used the Fein detail sander/saw for 10+ years with no problems: that;s the difference quality makes.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
i ve painting house for long time i dont sure about that any way when my invention the aqua wire brush will be much better reason you can attach the water hose in the back to flush the water and do you want more when the wire britsles are old o broken you dont need buy whole wire brsuh thanks for you time.
January 12th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
This product does not work.
It does not clean the heel /ferrule of the brush.
TTI - Ryobi should be ashamed…they are taking your money $30 at a time.
There is a cleaner coming on the market soon, that will clean your brush from tip to heel - -TOTALLY CLEAN like new in 90 seconds.
Look for it….it will be worth it.