Street sweeper bristle source

[stick]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=36799&item=4524819195&rd=1



Green, but nevertheless, that's a lot...

I really wish someone in the US would give away/sell some... I've only seen a street sweeper in my area once, several years ago, just before the city repaved all the roads.

[MrB]

Those have to be plastic, right?

I passed a street sweeper on my way to work once, but I wasn't sad enough to park the car and go walking along the median to find any dropped bristles.

[Wesson357]

That might be what they look like when they are new and clean.

[PYRO1234321]

these are plastic, used in lower abrasion situations.
NOT applicable for pick making.

That would be an excellent deal if they were steel though

[plot]

i bet you have street sweepers around you but just never see them... goto some industrial complexes and they have them at 3 in the morning (when i get off work...)... and before i started working nights i had NEVER EVER seen a street sweeper in my entire life. didnt think they existed... exspecially where i live.

...yet now i see them all the time cruising through the industrial areas... never looked for bristols though

[skold]

ok, go to the street sweeper depo and ask for used brushes..easy as that

[raimundo]

look at the street, is there trash in the gutter, if so don't look for bristle, but if the gutter is clean, ride a bike along it for a few blocks, look for stright line shapes at the corners where the machine tried to follow the curve and rammed it a bit. If you find some and you are rideing a mountain bike with fairly straight handlebars, you can shove them inside the handlebars. If there is a fall out problem, you can bend the beat up end of the bristle to make it fit tighter.

[stick]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1267&item=3871826030&rd=1

Another one, one for us US people.

"This item is too large heavy or fragile to be shipped through FedEx. It must be picked up or shipped through a freight carrier."

Can't really tell if it's steel from the picture, but if it is...

[Eschatos]

The bristles are only 2 inches anyway. Don't know of much I could successfully do with those. At least not with my crappy pick making skills!

[stick]

, 2 inches, eyes glazed over that and I just thought 2 inches thick. Hmm... Well, you could make a lot of nice wallet sized picks. I could use a few.

[Eschatos]

Create some kind of plastic or rubber handles, and 2 inches I guess could be enough clearance to get into most any keyway you'll come across =)

But creating the handles and inserting a 2 inch pick is bound to cause some problems. Keeping it in there, insuring proper feedback, not to mention you lose some inchage because of the overlap of the pick and the handle.

It could be done, though.

[stick]

Probably not really worth the effort.

Technically, all residential streets in San Jose are sweeped at least once a month, so I need to remember to call in and check when they'll be sweeping my area. What are the odds of my street sweeper using a material other than steel?

[raimundo]

the big brush on the back used to be steel bristle, but now its plastic, but they have not replaced the curb brush that comes out the side of the machine with plastic, because nothing does it as well as steel. Curb bristles are long, usually about a foot long

[mckutzy]

hi i new here, i have been a hobby lockpicker for a few years and i started with the street sweeper wires. when this locksmith came to my school shopclass to fix some doors, we were talking to him about stuff and he mentioned about the wires. years later iremembered about them and tryed one out and well it worked. no modification needed, it had a radius ground on it from the street. later i found about 30-40 more just going up and down the street.

[stick]

And illegal. Nice.