Regina Electrikbroom

[spiralactivator]

I recently picked up a late '60s or early '70s 3-speed Regina Electrikbroom at a flea market. It could stand a little cleaning up, but it works great. Are there any Electrikbroom fans here? And can anyone tell me exactly what the "Air Pulse" feature does?

 

[tlee618]

I remember that electric broom well. The air pulse feature was some form of vibration in the floor tool. It was suppose to help loosen the dirt in the carpet. I never thought that it did much. What color is yours, they made them in many different colors.

 

[programcomputer]

I have had a couple of Electrikbrooms...the one I have curre

Hi,

I have had a couple in my time...going as far back to an early 50's model...which I had when I was 17, and it was black phenolic or possibly bakelite plastic...for rugtool, and dustcup, greyish metallic for the handle, motor and fan housings...a black handgrip and a burgandy corduroy style bag, and the cord was black as well as the bakelite plug.

I am embarrassed to admit WHY I lost one of the first working Electrikbrooms, but fair enough to say that a VERY vindictive mean spirited ex....sold it to a vac collector during one of our spats.

YEARS later (today)- my current one which is a Regina Electrikbroom PowerTeam model number :

Model:HB6710A
Style:G1

It's a 3.5 amp single speed motor, and it has fairly good suction for this type of cleaner. It's all a medium beige with brown accents and has a brown and medium beige crosshatched fabric bag.....and a whit handgrip and cord and round bagtopper.Also, unlike many other models..the motor and fan chamber are completly encased in a hard plastic enclosure with a handi-handle about 2 inches up the bag that is attached to this outer enclosure.

The Powerhead is a GS motor driven unit with a bristle brush that I believe revolves at about 2800 rpm. Behind this brushroll on the floorplate is a floating brush that supposedly works when you run this tool over bare floors. It's of the automatic adjusting type but cleans carpets fairly well for what it was supposedly designed for.

I think it's faults are...It's TERRIBLY noisy compared to other machines I have had like it (yet not other Regina's) over the years...and machines that I have currently..It cleans low pile and medium pile well, but when you get into deeper carpets the cleaning action goes down to nil. The filtration on all of them are SO-SO becasue there is no real filter bag and it always belches some schmuttz out the opening when you go to empty it.

BUT... that aside, I will neve get rid of this one...simply becasue it was the TOL Regina Electrickbroom and the fact that they just don't make them like this anymore. I passed on the toolset (STUPIDLY) when I found this machine at the Goodwill in which I found it becasue they wouldnt sell it with the machine...they wanted an additional $10.00 for it..

When I finally went back a month later to get it..after I woke up from my stupidspell..the tools...were gone...

Easy come Easy go

Chad

 

[programcomputer]

Oh Yeah...

Consequently- I also owned a Electrikbroom that had that Air-Pulse rugtool. This one was a deep reddish poppy color with white trim and rugtool. I was never impressed with it becasue all it did was made the machine that much noisier than one without. It did "pulse" the air...and possibly did help with dirt removal, but I SELDOM used it...

I had this one about 5 years ago......I just found my current one this last spring.

Anyway...yeah I love them...

BUT what I would give to someone who had a Regina Dual-Cyclonic canister from the 1970's. Any style any model....

Chad

 

[programcomputer]

How the rugtool worked....IMHO

When you flipped one of the side levers on the medium priced models it closed the suction off to the main inlet hole and sent it out to the slots at the leading edges to aid in edge cleaning...all I ever thought it did was make the motor race and the edge cleaning was only so so. Nothing can beat a canister with high suction and a crevice tool for that job.

NOW on the higher priced models you had the above decribed feature, plus near the center of the tool near the Rug-Pile-Dial was two blue switches of a sort, that brought the Air-Pulse into play. Basically all the switches did ( one switch turned it on-the other turned it off) was brought a rigid yet flexible plastic "tongue" into the air channel...that vibrated...thus causing the air-pulsing. Kinda like a poor man's Eureka Vibra-Beat.

Like I said in the above post these machines are getting rarer as for some reason after a certain amount of abuse the motors disentigrate and it's dead.

I was wrong about the brush speed on the Electrikbroom I have now....according to a catalog that I have that features my broom in it (Aldens Spring and Summer 1982), the brush rotates at 6,000 rpm. Funny it really doesn't seem to spin THAT fast.

Also, I have a Douglas built powernozzle on an Air-Way Sanitizor canister system that has a similar looking GS motor that only spins the brush at about 2,800 rpm's, so I (guessed) that they are similar in speed. My bad...

Anyway Electrikbrooms are cool...glad that you spent the $$ to get one..they are cool and kitchy and retro....and still work fairly well considering todays's broom style knockoffs.

Thanks

Chad

 

[spiralactivator]

Colors and features

My Electrikbroom is mostly white with a blue bag. According to the notation on the side of the bag, it's the "Homespun" pattern, designed to resemble a hook rug. It has Rug Pile Dial selections for Bare Floor, Patio/Lo, Med, and Shag/Hi. It has the blue Air Pulse switches (which are interconnected; push one into position and the other pushes itself into position) and two red Edge Clean sliding controls.

I have no complaints about the noise, but then again I'm used to '70s Hoovers and Sanitaires, which aren't exactly quiet. I bought the Electrikbroom because I needed a vacuum cleaner fast, and my Hoover upright is back home (I'm at college). I paid $8, and aside from a little dust it's like new. During the break I'm gonna take the it home and clean it off with Simple Green.

 

[tolivac]

Electrikbrooms:

Have one and it is an interesting machine.This one has a metal fan and fan scroll.It has the shake out cloth bag and dust cup.Like the machine-got it at a yard sale.Regina originally intended the machines as a "kitchen crumb" vac and not much else.The one I have works well on hard floors but not carpets.Its floor nozzle can be adjusted for bare floors or carpet.I used to have an ElectricBroom that had the motorized powernozzle(sort of like that on a canister)but it ingested a small peice of steel wire and actually cut the tube off that goes to the floor nozzle-was almost comical when it happened-and such a surprize!! Don't think that would of happened with the metal fan and fan housing model.That peice of wire got caught in the fan and spun around in the lower housing cutting it.Was too bad-the powernozzle model was quite effective.I also have a Sunbeam "Broom Vac" that a vac store gave me.It also has a plastic fan and fan housing-but no dust cup-uses a weird paper bag no longer available.I folded down a Royal "B" bag and the machine does work.It was designed-to be a "Crumb vac" as well-good only for hard flooring.

 

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Update

Well, I'm home from college for the holiday break, and I brought my Electrikbroom with me (btw, it's predominantly blue; I must've been sleep-deprived when I said it was mostly white). We have medium-pile wall-to-wall, and I'm surprised at how well my new vac cleans it! It's not great for cat hair, but it catches all the dust, crumbs, etc. According to the Spring-Summer 1969 Gamble-Aldens catalog, I have the "3-speed Super Power Electrikbroom," which cost $44.98 new.