Showerthought: My trusty brush head snapped clean off inside a flue last Tuesday.

I was finishing a sweep on a 1920s brick chimney in Cincinnati and the threaded ferrule just gave out, leaving me to fish the bristles out with a magnet on a string for 45 minutes, so what's the most reliable brush connector you all use?

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2 Comments

finley_smith4h ago

Oh man, the magnet on a string... been there. I swear by the solid brass screw-together ones now, after losing a brush in a farmhouse flue last fall.

angelamurphy10m ago

That sounds like a rough way to learn that lesson. Those old magnet setups can definitely fail at the worst time. Solid brass is a smart upgrade for sure.