I would say, if your good with a squeegee, there are going to be very few windows where the liquidator is going to give you any advantage.
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Most of the advantage seems to be for pole work where detail is crucial. For some guys that’s primo, but generally isn’t the case with the jobs I tackle.
Using a standard squeegee in-hand, it’s not tough to yield similar results, and without the hassle of bedding the rubber just so.
Pole work is actually where I see it being least effective. Fanning with a pole is slow as molasses compared to using the figure seven method and a feathered pull on the last pass. It’s also way slower than using wide bodied channels that clear twice the water in one pull. Having a flique pad doesn’t make it faster either compared to using two poles, one to wet and one to squeegee, which is faster as you can wet more windows with a full washer than with a pad and that means less times down with the pole to wet the washer. I’m sincerely not saying this to argue the point. I just don’t see any advantages to the liquidator and I would even say more disadvantages to it.
I see the residential pole work guys do in the UK as being where the liquidator really shines. Smallish windows with solid frames over hedges and such.
Figure 7 is awesome for large format glass though. The taller the pane, the more a straight pull is gonna rule it.
Anyway, the topic of the thread is whether the liquidator is good for learning with. I’ve typed up way more than my quota and the OP has probably already moved on lol.
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What is fact fire 7? Never heard of it.
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My mistake. My post got auto corrected and I missed it. Suppose to say figure 7 method. Sorry about that. I’ll have to edit it.
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Hey OP, you still here? Or have you chucked your gear in the trash in horror and taken up a job at McDonalds 
Original question. Liquidator good for beginners? Yes, no harder to learn than any other channel. A manufactured solution for the ‘dog-eared’ Mod many of us used to swear by. The goal being to minimise the need to cloth detail after blading. Works extremely well when mastered. Easier in my opinion for a newbie because they have zero brand bias, muscle memory from previous tools. Tougher to deal with if you are already an Ettore or Sorbo guru as the pride can take a bit of a hammering when it won’t perform… ‘useless piece of weak plastic shit etc etc’ 
trawl Bob’s (PolznBladz) youtube channel for all the info you will need.
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The another aspect I would add is it also depends on what you goals are with your business. If you plan on expanding and hiring in and growing then I would stick with more simplistic tools as they will be much easier to get new hires up and running with them than a specialty tool like the liquidator.
If you plan on running solo then by all means give it a go as some guys seam to like it. I don’t care for it but to each his own.
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I’m pretty good with a squeegee, I can leave a pane of glass detail free with regualr tools however to do so means at least 2 extra strokes. and then there may still be an occasional top corner that isn’t perfect and needs to be touched with a scrim.
I pretty much only use excelerators on resi jobs unless there are large sliding doors then I will use a sorbo. these days my scrim stays clean and dry.
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Trained my new guy from scratch this year and made him learn on the liquidator. It was a pretty slow learning curve so he ran the WFP on a lot of jobs before I could rely on him to trad. On his exit interview at the end of the season, he thanked me for teaching him the liquidator. Learning that tool and its features (pivot, lock, multiple blade angles) taught him how to use standard fixed squeegees and zero degrees without having to individually train and learn each tool. Each skill came while handling the same tool he already knew. Now he can do large panes with a 7, french panes with custom cut channels and straight pulls and fan with almost any squeegee with any angle handle and do hi-rise with only a single tool to worry about keeping track of (Liq w/ Fliq pad). So, from now on I think everyone is going to start on the Liquidator in our company.
Just my 2 cents.
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I purchased the Liquidator 2.0 as well as a less expensive Unger at Home Depot
overall I’m personally leaning towards the Liquidator.
I would eventually like to try some other set ups as well.
Thanks for all the advice… glad to see the forum is very active and helpful
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More evidence of this site being a helpful resource…
