Mytee firebird or mcculloch mc1385

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nothingface5384

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Mytee firebird or mcculloch mc1385
I can find the 1385 200shipped
Found mytee firebird for 215

Found nothing but good reviews on the 1385

Mytee firebird soubds more powerfull, steams up to 300 insteas of 200 like the 1385.
Has life time warrenty
Has no triangle scrubber
Found a few reviews of it having crappy reliability though..
Which would you guys pic
 
I bought a mccullah from harbor freight. Not sure of the model. $100
I returned it since it was so much water with the stream. Ordered a VX5000 with plans to try and then return it..But loved it so much never did.

What do you plan on using it for?
 
I've seen a lot of cross-brand compatibility with regard to steamer tools. Might be able to use a triangular head from somebody else on it.

And, speaking as somebody who's had a few steamers (currently have two), I'd sure buy the most potent model you can afford; the seemingly minor diffs in performance specs have translated into quite *major* diffs in actual performance...at least for me.
 
I have a firebird and its leaps and bounds better than those cheaper steamers. Which spit out a ton of water with it (as noted earlier) and can sometimes have trouble keeping up.

I can do most cars on a single fill but when you get into the disasters or larger vehicles, its a real major inconvenience to have to stop, let it cool and refill. I use my steamer on EVERY interior detail I do and its a must have tool in my arsenal.

Cant buy the firebird anymore as it seems they have discontinued it. And for the price of their new machine, youre better off getting a dupray or a VX5000. Ive been eyeing the Tosca myself, not continuous refill but a 1 gallon boiler giving 1.5 hours of steam which is enough for what I need
 
You sure...ive found it online for 215 shipped back during my first post
Cant find the original site (zoro?) But kleen-right has it for 200 right now
 
There may still be some in stock at some stores but mytee doesn't have it on their website anymore, and Autopia stopped selling it. My guess is that its been discontinued. If you can find it for 215 shipped that's a STEAL. Id buy it for that price. The Mculloch steamers don't even compare to the firebird
 
nothingface5384 said:
Hey accumulator
Is continous fill worth the extra 190ish over the same but not continous fill
Vapor clean 2 versus vapor clean 4
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One of mine has continuous fill and the other doesn't. To *me* it's worth having, even though that steamer is my "big" one and can go a while between fillings. The smaller one *without* continuous fill is OK for small jobs but waiting for it to cool down (seemingly *always* at the worst possible moment...) bugs me.

But OTOH, a lot of people here (e.g., ShaneB) don't mind that at all and that they don't steam long enough for the continuous fill to be a big advantage for them.

Oh, and I'd read about how all continuous fill steamers have compromised performance because it's simply a poor design; *NOT* TRUE* IME, mine works fine and outperforms my smaller/non-continuous model.
 
I still have my old now, VX5000 and while its not the biggest tank in the world, i dont seem to ever need to run all the water out of it during a Detail..

I never have to wait for it to cool down to refill it back up either...

Love that it has plenty of heat and pressure to absolutely blow out those really dirty front door hinge jambs, and in the Northwest, those especially dirty, nasty, mold, little trees, and who knows what, growing in the top of the trunk jambs and all over the hinges if they are the exposed design..

Another place this steamer excels, is under the tail light edges where mold likes to grow - just inside that little space, where no brush can get if you could get in that angle anyway...

Any place you cant reach easily ( that tight space between the console and the side of the seat) with your long handled brush, by hand, this steamer can get into and rinse what you sprayed with APC+, and also blow out whatever else is in there that you cannot see, without removing the seat...

Researched continuous fill and decided that if I need to hook up all that ga-ga every day and run it all that much every day, I might need to re-evaluate my process to be more efficient, or hire more people because I have now become a full-blown-production-shop.. (which I would never want to do now) :)

Dan F
 
I have a McCulloch and have toured their factory where they are made. They pay an incredible amount of attention to detail and quality control. I would not hesitate to recommend one to you.
 
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