{"id":432,"date":"2009-09-14T21:59:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T01:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=432"},"modified":"2009-09-14T21:59:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T01:59:38","slug":"hacking-scrubbing-bubbles-automatic-shower-cleaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/hacking-scrubbing-bubbles-automatic-shower-cleaner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img_2757\"<\/a>Like many, I enjoy a clean house. \u00a0There are plenty of gadgets out there that help you keep on top of the various cleaning duties – Scrubbing Bubbles: Automatic Shower Cleaner<\/a> being one of them. \u00a0While some of the gadgets you pick up are really gimmicky, this one seems to help reduce some of the heavy cleaning the shower needs with minimal effort.<\/p>\n

Now this doesn’t eliminate the need to clean the shower, and I should be honest here – when it does need cleaning I manage to neatly avoid doing the dirty work, but I can say that the Scrubbing Bubbles cleaner seems to lengthen the time between shower cleanings.<\/p>\n

The only bummer is that the bottles are not refillable. \u00a0We stretch ours out by only using it every 2nd day or so (instead of every day as is recommended). \u00a0It still would be nice to be able to refill with a concentrate and dilute with water. \u00a0The catch is – the caps do not screw off, so you can’t open the bottles.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at how the cap works:<\/p>\n

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So on the left you can see a close-up of the threaded part of the bottle. Very sneaky, they’ve put a pair of small ‘ratchet’ nubs – there is another pair on the other side as well. \u00a0Looking at the cap, you can see the corresponding teeth. \u00a0Once tightened down, the cap is very solidly locked onto the bottle.<\/p>\n

To hack this – you’ll need two of the scrubbing bubbles empty containers. \u00a0From one you will recover a cap, from the other the bottle. \u00a0To remove (destroy) the cap, I used a pair of wire cutters and a pair of needle nose pliers. \u00a0I started a cut up the side of the cap, then grabbed the edge of the cut with the pliers and peeled it back. \u00a0I used 2 or three cuts until I managed to free the cap from the bottle. \u00a0Removing (destroying) the bottle to recover a cap was easier, but I used the same basic approach: a small cut, followed by the pliers to twist the material away. \u00a0Go slow (and carefully with sharp tools!) since you want to avoid any damage to the part you are trying to keep.<\/p>\n

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The bottle must be modified to removing the nubs. \u00a0The plastic is a hard plastic which seemed to respond nicely to a coarse file I had in my workshop. \u00a0A few minutes of work and I had smoothed over the two pairs of nubs – the cap now opens and closes easily. \u00a0Now we’ve got a refillable container.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many, I enjoy a clean house. \u00a0There are plenty of gadgets out there that help you keep on top of the various cleaning duties – Scrubbing Bubbles: Automatic Shower Cleaner being one of them. \u00a0While some of the gadgets you pick up are really gimmicky, this one seems to help reduce some of the … Continue reading “Hacking Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}