Ettore Excelerator - Best Swivel Tool

Pole, with fliq pad.

Thanks, I was curious.

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Yep! The concept was great. I even had the same idea before the angle cut corners came out but just never tried it. I wanted it to work and it did in theory. The problem is there is rarely a perf ft window here in the states. It seems in Europe or UK they have more uniform windows and less variety than here. There are so many different types of windows here that most of the time the zero detail concept doesn’t work. You end up having to detail anyways.

Plus the corners of the blade get tore up quick and then you start leaving lines off the corners. In the inventors (don’t recall his name) last video he talks about using a blade for a month! I’m like what?!! That doesn’t work here. That blade would be so trashed here I don’t see how it would even take the water off the glass.

The longest I have gone on one blade is like a week and that was pushing it. It was costing me more time than it was worth it and that was a standard blade not a angled corner.

I don’t think anyone is trying to knock the tool itself. I just think a lot of guys don’t find it practical.

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Among many smaller issues that could have been overcome I think the biggest issues I had with the tool was not being able to make deep turns while fanning with the pad on the top and then not being able to use the pad in terms bottom because then you can’t close out good on high windows.

Then second to just don’t get as good of a scrub on the window with a flip pad vs a strip washer. You can scrub the glass good but thats it. I generally scrub the frames as well as the glass when I clean and I found that posed a problem as either accounts that went more frequent I wasn’t keeping the frames clean or it would add a step of cleaning the frame another way, or I want getting those really dirty jobs clean enough without using another method and step to clean the frame.

For me this limited the tool to only specific jobs and applications and wanting to keep things simple by using one set of tools for all jobs it meant the liquidator had to go.

I found it to only give detail free results on certain jobs and I can generally get detail free on those same jobs with my Standard squeegees, so that want an advantage. Also the flip pad gave some advantage but also had some minuses and in many cases didn’t really have any advantage and even on many jobs is a
complete disadvantage.

Overall I only found it to be an advantage on a hand full of jobs which made it more of a distraction over all.

I would like to try the high flyer as I can see that being a big enough advantage on certain jobs to keep handy, if not just to play around with on days you feel board. I think they seem to have solved the problem of the flip pad getting in the way by putting it on the back of the channel itself.

The draw backs I see in that tool are the wagtail pads hold about as much water as a coffee filter (which would have to be moved) and I could see having to adapt to getting into the corners efficiently and third I have concerns about the rubber getting marred when scrubbing the window with the pad on the backside of the channel.

I may have just talked myself out of getting one…lol

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If you don’t get on with the Liquidator then it’s cause you’re too much of a caveman to appreciate it.
Just like the recent Disney-produced Star Wars movies.
:japanese_ogre: :japanese_ogre:

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Lol :joy:

What handle does your liquidator ride in now, for route work Samuel?

Wagtail Pivot Control, cause it makes a clean close-out just so much easier.

I’ve got it set up with 14" liquidator channel, fliq pad and Liquidator 1.0 end clips.
I load it with Moerman rubber despite the downgraded durability compared to Ettore, because the small bulb lets it self-adjust at the tips. I drilled a hole in the middle of the channel so the wagtail screw pins the rubber in place at a single central point.

Full disclosure: that tool only gets used for maybe 1/4 of my pole work. Otherwise I favor an 18" brass channel w/ Ledge-Eze handle for straight pulls most of the time.

@whatapane I was just trolling with that last comment, in case it wasn’t obvious :rofl:

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:+1:t2:

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Does anyone have a swivel mod for my gas station squeegee?

SY450

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I’m working on fitting one to my wagtail.

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Now doesn’t seem strange that both the Moerman & the Wagtail swivel handle have the same problem??
When squeezing into the edges.
Both have pivot at same point at the end.
Movement on the Moerman connection is flat so it sort of move more side to side as seen when people using them .
However Wagtail movement has a slightly concave disc connection allows you to swivel easier when fanning.
Both swivels on the Moerman & Wagtail can not have even pressure on the squeegee channel as you swivel or fan it.
Because once move off centre you get uneven pressure on the channel.
Believe when this is solved (swivel movement) it will not be necessary to put anything on the ends of the squeegee channels.
Your welcome.:grinning::roll_eyes:

Actually, a regular channel is a wagtail is pretty darn close for me.

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LOL! when I told my father-in-law that I was quitting teaching to clean windows he bought me ten of these because they were on sale for $1.50 and he said my squeegees were too expensive!

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Thats a dumbass comment. It’s not a matter of “getting on with the liquidator” it’s about what’s most efficient in the end. I don’t choose tools because I like them or want to use them. I choose tools because they produce good results and are the most efficient option.

I don’t have an issue with using the liquidator and could adapt it to be useful but it isn’t going to be as effective and efficient as what I currently use.

On most commercial jobs the liquidator is a waste of time. You can use a 26 inch Sorbo or other large channel squeegee and do the window in two strokes. Your a dipshit if you waste tour time fanning the window with a liquidator on a commercial job with larger panes (which is the majority of commercial jobs).

Again the liquidator has some applications but not enough to waste my time with.

Easy there buddy. Read where I tagged you

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This quote is an ironic form of English where you quote a general view you feel is not well argued and by quoting it you expose the flaws in the argument.
Did I get that right?

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Indeed. Though it seems my true meaning was missed entirely by the one who I thought would appreciate it most. Irony upon irony.

I’d flame you but I haven’t invented fire yet.

Never not be afraid!