My Latest Find

Never pass up the chance to peek at a pile of "garbage".

Regina floor polisher/scrubber, early 1950's. It has the fine brush polishing heads on it. Not much info on the 'net about it, though. The kicker is it runs very well.



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Not fancy enough in this day & age, you actually have to have some common sense to run it Nice find W'nC

400 watts = sound o power!

So true.

Thank you, Fred.

I have an old hardwood floor just waiting for this polisher. Last time I polished it was with Butcher's paste wax and my Craftsman sander, buffing pad attached, on my hands and knees.

Yeah Butcher's wax! Maybe somebody bought that new during the Korean War, I'm sure totally made in America.

It's still available, I know little bit about the company history, it's been sold to a larger "conglomerate".

My mom and dad still use thier regina! powerful tool

Equipment made "back then" lasted for years, and when something went wrong it could be repaired. Quite a bit different from what we have today, don't you think?

yes for sure....they dont make presidents like they used to either

we can just leave that alone

Wood'nCoal wrote:Equipment made "back then" lasted for years, and when something went wrong it could be repaired. Quite a bit different from what we have today, don't you think?

I think the problem becomes is a lot of products are so cheap it become questionable if it's worth fixing. I had a Dewalt grinder here with bad brushes, they wanted like $10 for the brushes and with the S&H I was approaching the $20 mark. Similar model was $50 new. The health of the rest of the grinder was questionable. I know I might have been able to get the brushes somewhere else but then I got hours into it hunting them down.... Now if I had a high end Metabo "I will hurt you" grinder like the one my brother has then it would be worth it even if it were little more.

Understood.
I have a 1950's vintage "I will hurt you" Craftsman grinder.

Wood'nCoal wrote:Understood.
I have a 1950's vintage "I will hurt you" Craftsman grinder.

I'm not talking about your back.