1969 Judson Machine

One of my local competitors (FloorGuy aka Doug Payne) called me a while back and said he needed help moving a machine he just bought. His customer has had it sitting in her garage for over 10 years. Her husband used to clean carpets but passed away years ago. So we dug out the machine and it was an old Judson. After talking with Les he told us it was built in 1969 and was the only year that he did not use stainless. Also the machine is all white and was made for Sears.

That is a very cool find. Surprised Les didn't offer to buy it for the museum.

And it starts right up amazing!!

Mo wrote:And it starts right up amazing!!

We pulled the carb apart and cleaned the junk in the bowl out, put on a fuel pump,battery and a few squirts of starting fluid and it did start. I was pretty amazed on how easy it started. It has an 18hp briggs motor on it.

It sounds pretty quite too. How does the inside of the tank look? Any rusting pitting etc

It was rusted and there are some holes that have rusted thru the tank. over all it is an really good shape. I will have to have doug post a picture of the hose reel and the vac hose that came with it.

That's pretty cool!

It did sound pretty low noise...looks like a robust exhaust to it.

A machine that stills fires up after 46 years is pretty darn good and looks like a really cool resto project.

For sure. That would be a nice one to completely restore like I'm doing to mine.

That's the plan. Restore it and mount it into a 1977 Dodge Tradesman van, get a flat-top, find leisure suit, and re-brand yourself to "That 70's Cleaner"

That would trump any crappy local advertised cleaner by miles...especially if you go after the retirement homes.

Hehe that sounds like a "Groovy" plan, Man!!

Whats amazing is that the machine was found on the western side of the US you usually see them in the south. A second look at the video you see a line of rust at the bottom probably from the water just sitting there for years

milspec6 wrote:That's the plan.  Restore it and mount it into a 1977 Dodge Tradesman van, get a flat-top, find leisure suit, and re-brand yourself to "That 70's Cleaner"

That would trump any crappy local advertised cleaner by miles...especially if you go after the retirement homes.

I would like to use a van like this.

Maybe paint a unicorn on the side or airbrush the band members of the "Eagles"....either way, you would rule the region. Cleaners would bow down as you drove by.

Might need to rename this thread The "Mystery Machine", with the latest turn in plans.

damn thats a crazy deal to work in a customers home only to find out she just happens to have a 69' judson sitting in the garage.. I would have had to buy it too

Thats exactly why I chose the judson in the end, longest track record and machines that old still around

Check out the size of the exhaust I wonder if that why it sounds quitter but then again it is outside. Tim more pics on the guts of the machine please.

what pics do you guys want????

hopefully itll still be nice tomorrow, i got some serious cleanup to do around the house... Work has been slow, but putting all my time into this project that my wife is on the board for.....

https://www.facebook.com/GiGisPlayhouseLayton

running lines and hooking up security cameras, other lite IT work...other handy man type jobs.....yesterday was the grand opening, so now itll slow down...and the volunteers will run the programs.....

anyway, what pics you want..... and i might be willing to some offers, if anyone wanted to buy it....I don't now how much time i can dump into this for a while.....

Engine, blower, pump

Yup, Floorguy has all the pictures.

Floorguy wrote:what pics do you guys want????

hopefully itll still be nice tomorrow, i got some serious cleanup to do around the house...   Work has been slow, but putting all my time into this project that my wife is on the board for.....

https://www.facebook.com/GiGisPlayhouseLayton

running lines and hooking up security cameras, other lite IT work...other handy man type jobs.....yesterday was the grand opening, so now itll slow down...and the volunteers will run the programs.....

anyway, what pics you want..... and i might be willing to some offers, if anyone wanted to buy it....I don't now how much time i can dump into this for a while.....

Never mind, we wouldn't want to inconvenience you.

Floorguy wrote:what pics do you guys want????

hopefully itll still be nice tomorrow, i got some serious cleanup to do around the house...   Work has been slow, but putting all my time into this project that my wife is on the board for.....

https://www.facebook.com/GiGisPlayhouseLayton

running lines and hooking up security cameras, other lite IT work...other handy man type jobs.....yesterday was the grand opening, so now itll slow down...and the volunteers will run the programs.....

anyway, what pics you want..... and i might be willing to some offers, if anyone wanted to buy it....I don't now how much time i can dump into this for a while.....

So carpet cleaning is just your disguise by day. You are really a super hero at night.....well, super husband anyway.

Looks like you chose the better project to work on, that tnt has waited a long time and can wait some more.