Wish you would of had a Tucker Brush to compare. The DuPont Nylon is so much better quality of nylon and performs well on the glass.
Also I am sure you know this but the only part of a nylon bristle that cleans is the tips so the more tips touching the glass the more cleaning. When you press down on the nylon bristles and they bend they are no longer cleaning.
Kind of like why my shave brush works best with almost no pressure?
and that is in my opinion part of the problem with the tucker hybrid, the boars hair is thin and whispy at the tip and to get any amount of bristle you have to flatten the nylon. so you only get cleaning from one at a time. and run the risk of scraping the jets on the glass.
No, but surely with the dual trim configurations the concept is the shorter bristle array has more scrubbing power because they are stiffer, so if the outer longer bristles arenât doing the job then extra pressure on the brush removes them from the equation by âsplayingâ them. This allows the âharderâ inner segment to do itâs job. A secondary benefit of the splay is that the flattening on the glass has repositioned the tips and allows effective scrubbing into the corners and frame seals. âŚand there lies the secret behind a good dual trim configuration very effectively calculated by Tucker a long time agoâŚ
You are seemingly a very smart and opinionated guy as Iâve been reading your replies on posts since Iâve joined, recently.
But I was wondering, have you ever agreed with anyone, ever??
to whom do you refer?
but alas in the modern hydrid as i mentioned the boars hair in the center is thin and whispy.
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Actually Matt, thatâs a touch snarky and uncalled for methinks. But hey, if you feel like trolling me, knock yourself out.
you shave with a brush?? i know, off topic, sorry.
âŚand there lies the problem Ken. Nylon outer bristles that are effective with tip scrubbing and inner but shorter Boars Hair that is most effective with drag scrub. Seems almost counter intuitive.
i think it could work if the boars hair was thick and robust like on the beast but each little tuft comes to a soft point like an artists brush.
AaahâŚinteresting to see what others think of it. Iâve always rated their standard dual trim. It has amazing âfeelâ on the glass. Iâve pestered the local Tucker importers here a couple of times but they donât seem to be keen to get any in.
Hey man, Iâm a kiwi. You Aussies have made it an art to offend us 
All good, obviously something about my posts pulls your chain, but hey, thatâs on you.
the hybryd âfeelsâ great, slides around like a monkey on roller skates, just doesnât clean much.
i did not realize till a few days ago that the nylon was different on the hybryd vs the other. what i was actually hoping to get was the original single trim but couldnât.
time for bed. nighty night yâall.
There shouldnât be any "jets scraping the glass"
Properly installed jets should stay within the block and not protruding.
Besides that, the misconception in discussion about nylon bristles does not apply to hogs hair bristles. Hogs hair bristles have microscopic loops and burs along the entire bristle so they can âscrubâ any which way they make contact with the glass.
Misconception about nylon bristles?
Also this was what prompted my query on using hogs hair as an internal shorter scrub bristle. The sides do the scrubbing with hogs hair therefore wouldnât the longer nylon actually obstruct an effective action from the hogs hair, or, do you simply flatten it on the glass more i.e. exert more energy sapping pressure to get them to scrub normally?
To a certain degree thatâs true but splaying the bristles on the glass actually changes the angle of the tips to the glass surface and, if not done too extremely, actually increase the aggression of the scrub of the bristle. For me the best brushes are those that splay easily with little pressure. I love the speed brush as it easily splays and scrubs brilliantly.
Each brush style has a different technique, but Specifically for the Tucker Hybrid duel trim:
For maintenance cleaning, just use light pressure cleaning with the tips of the nylon bristles. Only press down to âsplayâ the bristles when trying to get into the corners of the frame/glass.
When dealing with a more dirty area / bird gunk spot etc, put more pressure on the brush to make it âsplayâ so your leverage pressure is solely on the inner trim hogs hair. If you have it pressed down correctly, all the nylon bristles should be pointing outward and away from the hogs hair and will not impede with their cleaning ability.
As long as you do not have any jets sticking out past the block head, then you should have the safe ability to press down an scrub as hard as you need to if required.
Last but not least, a little trick for very Dirty glass: squeeze a small head of dawn on the hogs hair and do a deep scrub then flood rinse. Just make sure not to touch the glass with the bristles when doing last final rinse.
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