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Thread Number: 1911
Electrolux XXX/LX Polisher Ephemera |
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| Post# 20391 9/15/2007 at 00:19 (6,065 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
Neat paper pamphlets found in the bottom of a hammertone blue polisher with both pairs of brush & lambswool buffer pads with felt back pad. Looks as tho only the black set of brushes was ever used, the box is in perfect shape and the polisher body has a lovely clear shiny patina of floor wax on it, too. I particularly luv the grand piano in her middle class home but I sure hope she keeps her eye on the polisher instead of the camera after she's finished blissfully shining up that table and decides to glaze the piano lid. :-) 
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| Post# 20392 , Reply# 1 9/15/2007 at 00:23 (6,065 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 20393 , Reply# 2 9/15/2007 at 00:25 (6,065 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 20394 , Reply# 3 9/15/2007 at 00:28 (6,065 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 20395 , Reply# 4 9/15/2007 at 00:43 (6,065 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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So shiny you can almost see everything LOL | ||
| Post# 20403 , Reply# 6 9/15/2007 at 02:51 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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ELECTROLUX POLISHER VARIATIONS Here are the various color-style variations I have. First is the earliest and rarest --- polished aluminum casing, surely the very first version. I have only seen one of these, and I have it! 
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| Post# 20404 , Reply# 7 9/15/2007 at 02:52 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20405 , Reply# 8 9/15/2007 at 02:53 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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XXX - Gray hammertone casing with gray rubber trim. Note early-style carton. 
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| Post# 20406 , Reply# 9 9/15/2007 at 02:54 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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Later XXX - same color scheme but note new and more durable carton. 
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| Post# 20407 , Reply# 10 9/15/2007 at 02:54 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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LX - Dark-blue hammertone casing with dark-turquoise rubber trim. 
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| Post# 20408 , Reply# 11 9/15/2007 at 02:55 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20409 , Reply# 12 9/15/2007 at 02:56 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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E - AE. Hammertone blue casing, medium gray rubber trim. 
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| Post# 20410 , Reply# 13 9/15/2007 at 02:56 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20412 , Reply# 14 9/15/2007 at 02:57 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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Swedish. Lacquered steel-gray hammertone casing and gray rubber trim. Note very beautiful logo! 
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| Post# 20413 , Reply# 15 9/15/2007 at 02:58 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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Swedish carton. 
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| Post# 20414 , Reply# 16 9/15/2007 at 02:59 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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UK - bluish-gray hammertone casing, "perriwinkle blue" rubber trim; same beautiful logo as Swedish but blue background instead of silver. 
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| Post# 20415 , Reply# 17 9/15/2007 at 03:00 (6,065 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20432 , Reply# 18 9/15/2007 at 09:11 (6,064 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Lordy, Charles! These are so beautiful and in a formation like that all...Mother Chrome and her loyal Worker Pods ready to do battle with waxy buildup across the nation. I had the E/AE hammertone blue with dark turquoise rubber and then this earlier (?) one with gray rubber came along last week from my Vac Guy in London. This is Canada after all and I don't expect these are all that plentiful up here. What I find interesting is that on the bottom of the casting it says 'patent pending' along with the usual patent number D-158743. The carton flaps cleverly turn into carrying handles and I'll get some pics up soon. Btw, I know all this stuff is already well known but having scoured all the archives, etc, looking for pictures and info...if I haven't found it I'm threading it for our amusement. There's always more to discover about our beloved vacs and my curiosity is insatiable. :-) Dave | ||
| Post# 20436 , Reply# 19 9/15/2007 at 10:20 (6,064 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 20438 , Reply# 21 9/15/2007 at 10:41 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
Design Patent - Sheet 1
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| Post# 20439 , Reply# 22 9/15/2007 at 10:42 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
Design Patent - Sheet 2
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| Post# 20440 , Reply# 23 9/15/2007 at 10:42 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
Design Patent - Sheet 3
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| Post# 20442 , Reply# 24 9/15/2007 at 11:00 (6,064 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 20443 , Reply# 25 9/15/2007 at 11:03 (6,064 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 20444 , Reply# 26 9/15/2007 at 11:08 (6,064 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 20445 , Reply# 27 9/15/2007 at 11:10 (6,064 days old) by timborow (Georgia) | ||
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Model/Year What year/model did Electrolux stop making the polishers? Is there one for the Golden/Super J? Tim | ||
| Post# 20465 , Reply# 28 9/15/2007 at 14:30 (6,064 days old) by ian88 () | ||
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I'm not being funny Charles, mate but... you don't need that many polishers =p | ||
| Post# 20466 , Reply# 29 9/15/2007 at 15:45 (6,064 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Now hold on there, Ian. If yer not bein' funny then it follows yer bein' serious? This I doubt but question not the need, my friends...Ian doesn't 'need' to live in England either. LOL And Tim, Electrolux replaced the Polisher with the Turbo Tool Power Unit to which a bewildering array of attachment tools could be fastened, sorta like the Kirby. Surely Charles can expand on this with dates & tool pictures. Dave mmm, its not always good to have an afternoon off on a rainy day... | ||
| Post# 20469 , Reply# 31 9/15/2007 at 17:21 (6,064 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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Well of course we're in the minority since you own pretty much all of them in existence LOL | ||
| Post# 20473 , Reply# 33 9/15/2007 at 21:26 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20474 , Reply# 34 9/15/2007 at 21:26 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20475 , Reply# 35 9/15/2007 at 21:27 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20476 , Reply# 36 9/15/2007 at 21:28 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20477 , Reply# 37 9/15/2007 at 21:28 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20479 , Reply# 39 9/15/2007 at 21:48 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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: ( : ( CLICK HERE TO GO TO charles~richard's LINK on eBay | ||
| Post# 20481 , Reply# 41 9/15/2007 at 22:09 (6,064 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH) | ||
Wow, Interesting Polisher Thread!
I have two of them myself, both in original boxes, one for my model XXX, and one for my G. The one for the G has the dispenser on it and is called a Rug Scrubber/Floor Polisher. It was after the Turbo-Tool and think it may have been the last incarnation of the Electrolux air-powered floor polisher, correct me if I'm wrong here. Jeff | ||
| Post# 20482 , Reply# 42 9/15/2007 at 22:12 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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Heh heh Petek, glad to know "I AM NOT ALONE. :) Am going to try attaching an audio file here, of an Electrolux polisher. Don't know if it will work or not....... Let's see... See link............. CLICK HERE TO GO TO charles~richard's LINK | ||
| Post# 20484 , Reply# 44 9/15/2007 at 22:22 (6,064 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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Here's some HEAVY READING for ya........ CLICK HERE TO GO TO charles~richard's LINK | ||
| Post# 20487 , Reply# 47 9/15/2007 at 22:30 (6,064 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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Darn, my sound card doesn't work.. can't hear the linky | ||
| Post# 20489 , Reply# 49 9/15/2007 at 23:41 (6,064 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Boy o boy! I go in to work for a few hours and this thread explodes. I echo Pete and Charles as a firm believer in the personal 'logicly unexplainable events but I was there and saw it for myself' episodes. I just know there's a pony under that pile. Its a pure pleasure to be among such company of avid seekers. My twingle is associated with anything to do with pipe organ pieces, late 1800s Quack boxes and medical devices and of course, anything mechanicly/electrically intriqueing. Perhaps some of my re-routed brain circuitry responds to the faint residual halflife neutronical emanations - yeah, I made that word up. I credit the twingle to all those electric sockets I thrillingly stuck metal objects into to complete the circuit from tothood to adolescence. I 'learned' about the resistance...and flamability...of various materials in this way. And there's that 'since I'm the only one who's thin and short with blue eyes in this family I must be a foundling' thing. :-) This is absolutely not true, of course, and I was showered with buckets of love & encouragement by Mom & Dad but early on I set out on a differnt path than the family saw coming... I tell few about my interests because once started I reach a fever pitch of enthusiasm for the subject and most listeners glaze over and politely excuse themselves. Its enough to just take something unfixable and return it to them fixed. But get two kindred folks together and they have no need of social indulgence from 'standersby'. :-) Trained as a mechanical engineer, its more the decades of taking things apart and putting them back together that keeps an open mind to stuff that ain't in textbooks. The family story is how Davy got a tinplate flying helicopter attached to a hand crank by a long spiral cable for his 5th Christmas. Just would not play with anything else all day. When it stopped working I took it apart after dinner in my room useing things from Mom's sewing kit and fixed it. Then there was my dear cat Austin ( who looked like no other cat in the neighborhood) who crossed the road in front of my car on my way home and paused on the curb. 1 minute later I pulled into the driveway up half a block to be told by the neighbors that he had been struck & killed by a car 3 hours earlier. That was 15 years ago and since then all my kittens to cats have been indoor or outdoor on the screened porch only. and so it goes... Thank you for sharing the stories and links. Dang, how did I miss that white & gold polisher? Dave | ||
| Post# 20490 , Reply# 50 9/15/2007 at 23:48 (6,064 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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Charles, cue the thermanin music please, we gots us another one. | ||
Post# 20492 , Reply# 52 9/16/2007 at 00:32 (6,064 days old) by arh1953  ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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Post# 20496 , Reply# 54 9/16/2007 at 06:37 (6,064 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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| Post# 20523 , Reply# 55 9/16/2007 at 23:05 (6,063 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
Main Patent
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| Post# 20524 , Reply# 56 9/16/2007 at 23:05 (6,063 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20525 , Reply# 57 9/16/2007 at 23:06 (6,063 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20526 , Reply# 58 9/16/2007 at 23:07 (6,063 days old) by charles~richard () | ||
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| Post# 20530 , Reply# 59 9/17/2007 at 01:42 (6,063 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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You see that pentagram in the fig 2. above. What does that mean LOL | ||
| Post# 20544 , Reply# 61 9/17/2007 at 10:44 (6,062 days old) by ian88 () | ||
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Well you see Pete, the Pentagram is a pagan symbol, of magic and arcane power (not necessarily evil :P) You start to worry if the Pentagram's upside down ;p as that's of course a Satanist symbol. ^^; | ||
| Post# 282642 , Reply# 62 6/1/2014 at 07:57 (3,613 days old) by cuffs054 (monticello, ga) | ||
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Having never been the math whiz... How does "ONE part cleaner to FIVE parts water equal 'one CUP cleaner to one QUART of water'"? | ||
| Post# 282686 , Reply# 64 6/1/2014 at 19:27 (3,613 days old) by cuffs054 (monticello, ga) | ||
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Ronnie, I'm pretty clear how to measure but apparenty Electrolux isn't. Go back and review the instruction in the broucher (damn that a hard word to spell, where is Mrs. Bucket when I need her!) | ||
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