Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Kevin Beanz on March 30, 2013, 11:12:40 am
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A couple of Chicago Squeegees from my collection. These are circa 1920-30. The bigger one is made by J R Racenstein who are now the biggest seller of window cleaning supplies in America. They both have two rubbers & are very heavy. The handles have been forged & not pressed which shows how old they are. Why they are called Chicago squeegees nobody knows. The bigger one was very dirty black when I acquired it & I could not resist polishing it up.
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1364641217_chicaqo.jpg)
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are you a collector of old window cleaning equipment
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Nice mind. ;)
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Hi, Yes I have well over a hundred items of postcards, bottles, squeegees & printed stuff.
See my 100 year old Trade Journal in my other post.
Kevin Beanz.
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Can I donate Bob Plumb to your collection he's a window cleaner and about 100 years old.
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that squeegie looks better than mine and mines only a year old ;D
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Can I donate Bob Plumb to your collection he's a window cleaner and about 100 years old.
revenge is a dish best served cold :D
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Impressive !!
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Solid looking squeegee, they don't make em like that anymore
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nice!
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I think the rubber needs replacing.
Seriously though, I find it strange to think that someone was doing the same job way back then in what was, up untill about 10/12 years ago, exactly the same way as all window cleaners.
Sod undoing all those screws and then doing them up to replace the rubber.
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Load of pish
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I think the rubber needs replacing.
Seriously though, I find it strange to think that someone was doing the same job way back then in what was, up untill about 10/12 years ago, exactly the same way as all window cleaners.
Sod undoing all those screws and then doing them up to replace the rubber.
Looks bloody heavy too!
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someone should store away an slx for a hundred years,might be worth a few bob :)
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Racenstein are 104 years old! Amazing that...