Liquidator Issues

It needs to be redesigned along with some other issues, you have to readjust your angle to much when using a pole to have a smooth constant close out.

But i/we could just be spoiled with the handles that we currently use we don’t have an issue with closing out.

A side note… I was really hoping this handle would live up to all its hype over the last six months or so. If the issues are solved in the next version (if there is one) i/we would be really happy camper(s) it would solve the whole multiple handles on a belt, or in the bucket or left out in the vehicle for us, WE love to work sleek and lean. :wink:

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Today at a residential I needed to do some pole work. Frustrated with the Liquidator I took my Sorbo and did straight pulls.
Man - I missed you my old friend. Just perfect. Why do I have to be so stubborn with the Liquidator? Pride?
Straight pulls - I’ve started to underestimated that technique.

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Yep, same issues I was having. Solved it with the zip tie ends pushed into the bottom of the clip. Your green clips seem to do the same, but that issue in the picture is from the rubber contracting/folding up in the channel, so I’m not sure the green clips are holding it in place. Maybe try stretching it a little, then clipping the rubber in place, to give it a little tension so it’s not inclined to fold up.

I have some spare 2.0 clips I’ll try with Ettore rubber sometime. The local Janitorial supply sells it but single strips only at about $3-$4/piece… no option for dozen pack either… However, if my Liquidators only work well with Ettore, I’ll be less inclined to use it (if at all) because it’s cost to use becomes higher than every other channel I have. Ettore cant be the only option.

I will try that. Maybe it helps. Appreciate your thoughts.
I have to admit at lunch today I heated up the endclips, and bent them just a little bit backwards. Started out great! I thought: Yes, I solved it!
But a moment later my Razr Red Rubber showed a fine line. I changed to Black Diamond. A moment later i started to get not just thin streaks, more like big parts of water in the middle of the squeege that was left behind. Tried with different angles and etc… got frustrated. Went to the car to get my Sorbo channels. A big relief! Sometimes I wonder if I’m little to obsessed to get the liquidator to work… not that my biggest interest is to be more faster. My biggest interest is to exclude one moment (detailing) to spare my body a little.

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Same experience here, I might bend the clips back or put on some extras, I
think if anything clipping the rubber in place solves a lot of the leaving
water issues.

I’ve been practicing minimal detailing by watching my mopping then using my
18" ettore brass with bent tips, works very well but just for maintenance
cleans, so that may be a route to take for now.

yup straightened them out works great

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I straightened out my tips and the biggest advantage is don’t have to push so hard to ensure an even rubber glide… works well no drawbacks… love my Liquidator, only use it for interior cleaning wfp the rest… use Unger handle the jaws keep rubber in place

Minimal detailing is the way to go…

What really gets me why do so many people have an issue with fanning a window with a normal channel with very very minimal detailing that they need training wheels on the end of their channels…
Learn to fan a window or pull a window properly.

Just saying…

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Personally can’t see any point or need in straightening the clips. If you’re doing that and cutting the rubber square, why not just bin the clips altogether and use it as a normal channel?

It’s an opinion,
some guys like myself prefer the smaller water trail at edge of window that the Liquidator definitely leaves…

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Straightening the clips doesn’t mean going to 0 degrees, just less of an angle is all…

I know it just an opinion, the end clip idea is good, but when people learn to fan or pull a window properly they wont need the training wheels…

I hope you see my opinion… :wink:

So in other words not modifying the rubber to suit the clips?

This is getting interesting now… training wheels hmm, ok I feel dumbed down a bit as a w/cleaner but whatev I guess?

bottom line is I feel that with the same work as with an outdated Ettore brass channel I get a slimmer detail line at the edges of my windows hence I prefer to do squeegee work with a Liquidator…

(why do I feel a battle rap coming on?)

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I think that’s what he means and IMO it’s insane to contemplate that with a Liquidator… the finely cut edge of rubber sliding against the corner of glass makes a big difference with that small detail…

I didnt mean it that way at all Cory. Sorry if it came across that my comments were directed at you they weren’t.

It was a general statement, if a window cleaner practices proper techniques they can have flawless results.

No, no its good Steve this entirely light-hearted…

I get that a comment can be light-as-a-feather with a heavy duty word phrasing…

some guys might be like "training wheels… huh! I’ll show him…) LoL!!

but seriously… I been using an Ettore brass squeegee since day one and last year discovered the Liquidator and this site… and the thing made a difference in my work. I didn’t really have to learn technique after 19 years of window cleaning

feel me?

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But it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever, I take a standard 14" ettore rubber slide it on in and start cleaning windows and have the same result had I taken the corner off, but now it will not fold or pop out of the channel if you get some tinted or low E glass,

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Yup!

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