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Post# 4977   12/1/2006 at 03:02 (6,327 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Hello! Hoover Suction polisher was very popular over here in the sixties and in the early Seventies, the a new full line of polishers was introduced and kept in production, with some variations till 1990 whan a new range was lounched. How do they work? surely not with a belt! There's a motor, flatter than the convertible motor, lower in height and very heavy,and there's a fan in a chamber that creates the suction. the pulley in the center makes move , by friction two of the three brush connectors, while the back brush is driven by one of the front brushes, yet by friction. There ae springs in fact that keep the brush bases tightly close to each other! The floor polisher is very easy to manuver and in general to use;-) tommy |
Post# 4978 , Reply# 1   12/1/2006 at 03:03 (6,327 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 4979 , Reply# 2   12/1/2006 at 03:04 (6,327 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 4980 , Reply# 3   12/1/2006 at 03:04 (6,327 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 4981 , Reply# 4   12/1/2006 at 03:05 (6,327 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 4983 , Reply# 5   12/1/2006 at 04:27 (6,327 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK)   |   | |
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My Another brochure thread you will see a UK version - Its an insanely rare machine over here(so much so im not aware of anyone who has one lol!!). This probably has a lot to do with the British love of wall to wall carpet ;). Seamus |
Post# 4984 , Reply# 6   12/1/2006 at 04:41 (6,327 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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Kool! an early "dustless" floor polisher!thats a standard today-modern floor polishers now have to collect the dust generated from the polish and from the felt buffing wheels. |
Post# 4996 , Reply# 7   12/1/2006 at 08:16 (6,327 days old) by ohio_tuec ()   |   | |
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By any chance is that a tool port? |
Post# 4998 , Reply# 8   12/1/2006 at 08:22 (6,327 days old) by vac-o-matic (Saint Louis, Mo.)   |   | |
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Wow, looks like a convertible on steroids! Really neat machine, wonder why the U.S. never got a version of this? |
Post# 5003 , Reply# 9   12/1/2006 at 10:12 (6,327 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Yes ,I suppose that you never had anything like this in the Usa because most of the haouseholds are wall-to-wall carpeted and the small hard floor surfaces in all-carpeted homes, like entrance, kitchen etc could be trated with the standard floor-polisher-carpet shampooer, which I suppose was a best selling over there. In Italy most homes have marble/wood floors, with rugs on them of course, while carpets were used especially in bedrooms etc. Only in the mid 60s wall to wall carpeting became very popular,but there was always need of floor polishers. Every italian brand has always produced Suction floor polishers and some were excellent. Rem, OTM, Tapies, Lesa, and electrolux were absolutely the best, but they where quite heavy. Hoover floor polishers, especially from the 70s, were very well built, lightweight, brushes turned at about 750 rpm. No way to convert them into anything else. Oh, notice the similarity of those shown in the brochoure with the ranger uprights! Another interesting thing is that other european brands, like Rowenta (germany) siemens, Aeg had to feature floor polishers but they purchased them from an italian factory. most of the floor polishers (including Vorwerk fb 32) have the same brush discs, same size, same components! tommy |
Post# 5014 , Reply# 11   12/1/2006 at 12:19 (6,327 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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HI BRUCE, All the hoover suction polishers (and most of the floor polishers produced) have the suctid the perimeteron in the front, where the small oscillating brush is.REM polishers have the air intake in the center, but it's not so effective. Vorwerk pl 511 had suction in front and around the perimeter of the appliance and there afe long, soft brisles all around to help suction. the most recent vorwerk floor polisher-hard floor cleaner is triangulad (one brush in front, two back and front and rear intakes, but in this case there's a lot of suction produced by the vacuum cleaner they're used with. tommy |
Post# 5212 , Reply# 12   12/3/2006 at 21:03 (6,324 days old) by scott55405 ()   |   | |
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Thanks for the interesting info and thread! Tolivac, I have never seen such a thing here. Are the units you've seen for commercial purposes? |
Post# 5336 , Reply# 15   12/5/2006 at 11:23 (6,323 days old) by centralvacman ()   |   | |
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makes me think of my tripple head Noreclo shaver!! |
Post# 282574 , Reply# 17   5/31/2014 at 15:42 (3,588 days old) by rafael_leal01 (El tigre/ Anzoategui / Venezuela)   |   | |
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