Do you own a 175 Rotary floor swing buffer machine?

[Mikey P]

and if not, WHY?

Can't imagine not having one.

 

[joe harper]

The most VERSATILE tool every invented for our BIZ......"period"

 

[Lee Stockwell]

My first purchase in 1970, and have bought many since.

I always have one on the truck.

 

[Mikey P]

when I was a Millers hack I bought my first so that I could actually "Pre Condition" the carpet and not just add Prell to my tank...

 

[dealtimeman]

Yes own twelve.

 

[Jim Martin]

I don't own one.....will this knock me off Waldo's list.....???

 

[Royal Man]

The one I currently use I bought for 5 bucks at a school auction over 10 years ago.

That thing has made a ton of money!!

 

[Ken Snow]

Many

 

[Desk Jockey]

+2

 

[Mike Draper]

does a cimex count?

 

[John Buxton]

I bought one for commercial and it rocks! It's amazing how dirty the bonnets are when you think it's clean.

 

[Blue Monarch]

cheapo 17" from powr-flite. $450 I think. Does the job.

 

[rwcarpet]

Got a 21 incher sitting in my shop. never used. Old, probably eats as much energy as a whole house.

With proper pre-treat, extreme heat, flow and vacuum, I've never had the need. If I do pre-scrub, it is with my ProCaps machine.

 

[Johnny]

What pads, bonnets, brushes, etc. do you use?

 

[Jimmy L]

175/300 rpm keep it on the truck.

It really looks bad when cleaners use a beat up old buffer to your customers.

Get a newer one.

image is everything.

don't look like a janitor

 

[boazcan]

Negative. Never have owned one in 12+ yrs of business. I have used one.

I keep a CRB, OP, and Cimex on the truck. They each have their place.

 

[Tile Professional]

I got two.
Nothing can make you more money on a $100 investment than a 175.

Pre-scrub carpet
Encap
Strip and wax
Spray Buff
Bonnet clean
Sand wood floors
Polish concrete
Crystallize Marble
Scrub Tile and grout

 

[Chris A]

I dont. Ive used the pad driver on my rx for pre scrubbing a few times but usually just use the sebo for a prescrubber

 

[your_good_sons]

I have a 56 lbs Hawk 13" belt drive for scrubbing carpet with a Liberty brush/glide. I have a Mercury that runs 320 rpms as well as 175 rpms. Has 13" 17" and 21" aprons, pad drivers for all, shampoo tank and 50 lbs of extra weights... the best $1300 I spent in this biz so far.

 

[John Buxton]

You really should try a 19" cotton bonnet on a 17" 175 sometime after you've cleaned a commercial carpet. It is amazing how much soil you've left and it will dry much faster.

 

[Giorgio]

I'm using the Square scrub lately.

However, i did get a couple quick pics of this POS powr-flyte getting run over by a front end loader at the dump.

 

[The Great Oz]

Got a 21 incher sitting in my shop. never used. Old, probably eats as much energy as a whole house.

Sell it to someone that does in-plant rug cleaning or had vast amounts of commercial carpet to encap. It's too big to be worth the trouble on most jobs.

Oh, the old ones are the best, unless you're willing to pay $1,500+ for your rotary. anything under $600 is disposable.

 

[Mardie]

For situations that have historically required a 175,Would the O/P machines not produce a better and faster result?????

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Mardie I carry both and the 175 is much faster, especially for large areas. The OP has a different motion that uniquely digs in.

 

[sam miller]

when I was a Millers hack I bought my first so that I could actually "Pre Condition" the carpet and not just add Prell to my tank...

Ya or spray ultrapac and use a carpet brush or grandi groomer.

I remember guys like Dave Phelps and other using B105 carpet shampoo from Prochem that stuff worked but foamed like mad. I hated it.

Hack thats funny seeing as though You use a Ti wand on stairs! Just kidding.

 

[ACE]

I have a 17" Clark that chould be as old as me may outlive me.

I also have a 13" Hild that I put on the chimps truck to scrub out nasty rentals. 13” is the ideal size for scrubbing residential but to light for post pading.

Are you a hack if you don’t have a 175? Maybe.
If a 175 is the only carpet cleaning equipment you have, you’re defiantly a hack.

 

[Ron Werner]

bought one with some used equipment, gave it to my church for them to buff their floors.
I never got into cleaning vinyl, stripping and waxing etc. I could see the use for it with that work.
Never got into padding carpet, don't even like using my RX20 though I used it exclusively for several months when I bought my first TM (came with the TM) It did do a better job (somewhat) than the old wand I was using, esp on the polyprop commercial loop when it was loaded with soil. Wand left it streaky. THAT would have been a job for the 175 and a pad.

 

[Dolly Llama]

nothing shears soil off a fiber better than a heavy rotary with aggressive pads
(Cimex would be in the same class)

a CRB doesn't come close .
they'll dig more crud out obviously , but they don't shear soil off the fiber as well...period


..l.T.A.

 

[dealtimeman]

Currently we have been using crbs instead of 175 on cleanings.

 

[floorguy]

i got a 21" that only gets used to buff out a few laminate jobs....

that fooker is to big for a house....

and if its commercial that needs scrubbed....well i got a cimex for that

i would love a CRB of some sort, and maybe a orbot or something like