Detail nozzle set
The small attachments that make a vacuum usable on something delicate instead of merely powerful.
In detail
A detail nozzle set is a group of small vacuum attachments — nozzles, brushes and wands going down to a very small size. Conservation guidance recommends every collection have one, and the reasoning transfers directly to a household: a full-sized floor head applied to a carved frame, a keyboard, a pleated shade or a piece of upholstery is the wrong tool at the wrong scale, and the usual result is that the reader stops vacuuming and starts wiping. The sets are inexpensive relative to the machine and are the difference between a vacuum that cleans floors and one that cleans objects. Where the same machine serves both, the guidance is explicit that the attachment sets should be separate: one set for floors, another for objects, so that grit from a floor head is not introduced to something fragile.
Sources for this page
Sources
Conserve O Gram 1/6: Choosing a Museum Vacuum Cleaner
National Park Service, US Department of the Interior, 2003 · Government or regulator
Relied on for: That every museum should have a micro-tool set with assorted nozzles and tools going down to a very small size, that such sets are inexpensive and useful for cleaning artifacts, and that separate attachment sets should be kept for floors and for objects. (states this directly)
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Read on — The sections headed Filtration System — Dry Vacuums, Wet Vacuums and Wet-Dry Vacuums, plus the physical-feature checklist. Supports the claim as stated. Gives the vacuum record a filtration standard and, more usefully, a ranked comparison between three machine types that consumer coverage treats as equivalent.
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