Can we talk about those wire whip brushes that look like a joke

My uncle handed me this old rusty wire whip brush last year and I figured it was a museum piece, not something I'd actually use. Tried it on a heavy creosote buildup in a 1920s house last week and it cut through like butter, way faster than my nylon set. Anyone else have a tool that looked useless but turned out to be gold?

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maryadams17d ago

And my buddy Dave was cleaning out his dad's old garage, found one of those wire brushes with the handle all wrapped in electrical tape. He almost threw it away but his dad told him it was from the 60s and would outlast anything new. Dave used it to strip decades of paint off some wrought iron railing and said it barely slowed down, just chewed right through. Meanwhile my brand name brush from the hardware store started losing bristles after like ten minutes on the same job.

elliots4916d ago

That's frustrating, I feel that. There's something about the old tools that just had more metal in 'em, less plastic... my granddad had a wire brush from the 50s, same deal, the handle was just bare wood worn smooth from use. Stuff from back then was built to actually work, not to look good on a shelf for a season before it falls apart.