[ianharper]

Guys

what machines or other equipment have promised us something new but not lasted

mine was a triple vac machine from where the magic water comes from

be careful what you say people are lurking

respect

ian harper

[Simon Gerrard]

The Prochem Powerglide.
I bought two when they first came out (£5,000 ) believing they were better than the RX20. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The two fixed contra rotating heads were brilliant but on an uneven carpet they proved to be a night mare. Also, the RX20 cleans side-to-side so you can have the hoses permanently behind you, the Powerglide works only forwards and backwards making it a real PIA to use.
I sold them on to someone who sold them on to someone else who sold them on and they have now become known as the 'The Orphans' because no bugger wants them. 

Simon

[Fintan_Coll]

I suppose the Alltec Millennium must be up there on the list  too. I was thinking about buying one at the time but luckily held back,  a  year later a fellow who bought one would have sold me his. Don't know what became of it.

[nevil]

The Prochem Powerglide.
I bought two when they first came out (£5,000 ) believing they were better than the RX20. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The two fixed contra rotating heads were brilliant but on an uneven carpet they proved to be a night mare. Also, the RX20 cleans side-to-side so you can have the hoses permanently behind you, the Powerglide works only forwards and backwards making it a real PIA to use.
I sold them on to someone who sold them on to someone else who sold them on and they have now become known as the 'The Orphans' because no bugger wants them. 

Simon

I came within a whisker of buying one of them second hand a couple of years ago. Really glad I took the trouble to research them before I jumped in. I ended up with a RX 20 instead and although it was three times the cost even at used prices it has taken commercial work to a whole new level so worth every penny.

[PaulKing]

The first extractors we had were stainless steel jobs with a positive displacement blower, I still have a recovery tank off one of them, but for the life of me have forget the name. glad we when the ashbys/extracta lamb amtek vac way as they were back breakers.

[jasonl]

For all you Chem dry guys, the Velda in  1995 ,6 grand, for leaks, trouble and strife.

[jon barnes]

Paul
they were 'Stimvac' like u we still got half of one in the garage - remember the stewart
tuner pumps we replace ours with a hypo pump.. We used to do this nightclub 2 stories up. we were nackered before  we started after carring that vacuim unit up all those stairs.
happy days
Terry

[Dennis]

For all you Chem dry guys, the Velda in  1995 ,6 grand, for leaks, trouble and strife.

When I left in 2001 I got £4800 + vat for a 5 year old one! 

[Mark_Jubb]

Holloway Aqaurius Twin Tanks and weighted drag wand.
Large retangular stainless steel solution tank with Stewart pump, a cylindrical waste tank with a large single vac motor on the removable top section, some wire reinforced vac hose that used to compress when the vac was put under load, all connected to basically a piece of bent metal with a whopping lump of brass to weigh the thing down and a rear roller to move the thing back & forward. They used to sit snugly side by side on their backs with the drag wand slipped up between them, in the back of an Escort van, along with a Columbus Dixon D1 rotary and a 10 litre sprayer.