Cool Kenmore Polisher

[petek]

I saw this sitting in the Salvation Army thrift today and at first I thought it was a vacuum cleaner missing its bag. Some sort of Convertible clone. But upon inspection it's a Kenmore 3 pad floor polisher in remarkably good condition. There's a port on the back like where a bag would go but I don't know why it's there for a floor polisher? Anyone ever seen this floor polisher before, I haven't. The body is polished aluminum, the hood is moulded plastic with a Kenmore nameplate on the front and blue vinyl bumper guard

 

[petek]

Back side glam shot, see the port with the removable cover ?

 

[petek]

Bottoms up.. those are worn out removable buffing pads on the bristle pads which are still in very good condition.. I'll be tossing the buffing pads out. <br
I forgot to mention, it has the foot switch like a convertible to release the handle which powers it up.

 

[myvacsrock]

ohh <br
nice with PRETTY colors! Great fin <br
congrats

 

[ian88]

It's probably a vacuum polisher petek, they use a soft bag just like an upright <br
Ian

 

[luxg]

Pete, that is one amazing find! I have sure never seen anything like it. As a child and adult I never missed an issue of Sears catalogs and this is totally new to me. I will be really interested in seeing if someone else out here knows anything about it. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

 

[petek]

I'm guessing by the blue plastic hood that it's 70's..the Sears vacs of the 70's were either tan,blue or green but I can't remember which came first 2nd, 3rd.

 

[luxg]

I could be wrong Pete but I seeem to recall that the Green was first, then blue, then tan.

 

[swingette]

Reggie Reggie Reggie... i saw that green cleaner in another pic. so thats a suction polisher? not a rug suction sweeper/cleaner? either way its very very spiffy.

 

[petek]

Interesting, I've never heard of a suction polisher before. I just took the cap of the port at the back and it doesn't seem to blow much if any air out and there's nowhere that a bag would hook onto the handle unless that piece has gone or was removable. Or perhaps it was sold the way it is and/or you paid more for the bag extra.. who knows.

 

[petek]

Forgot to ask.. what's the point of a suction polisher anyways.. if the floor is wet you don't want to be sucking up wet gunk into a cloth bag do you.

 

[swingette]

suction polisher

theres been a couple threads about them before. they suck up the dust kicked up by polishing a floor that might be dusty.