Which one is better & why ?

There is no better or worse.

Depends on what you intend to use them for. Let us know what are your intentions so we can better answer your question.

They are both great.


Bill

Orbot!!!!!!

I like single disk machines for me it is the Orbot, many like the Cimex better, it is a matter of preference and what you are comfortable with to me.

Both of them are better!

Better than any other low moisture/multi-purpose machines I have used at least.

Both great machines, we have a pair of each.

The Cimex is much higher production, using fiber plus pads. The Orbot is no slouch in production, but not as fast as the Cimex.

Cimex uses fiber plus pads (consumes) and the Orbot uses cotton or blended pads (washing, eventually consuming).

The Orbot cleaning dries faster because it uses less moisture so it can be a real plus for low moisture situations.

With the planetary gear action the Cimex is hard to compete for aggressiveness when heavily soiled.

With the Orbot you can visually see the soil removed from the carpet and transferred on to the pads. A real bonus for demo's.

Buy one of each, maybe Rick can make you a deal!

Last night I used the cimex with fiber maxes in filthy 300 sqft cgd resty. I have pictures but i don't think they will look that great since they were taken with my blackberry.

I used the OP(15 in pad driver w/ 19 in pads) with cotton followed by glads with punch boosted, followed with cimex with fiber max with DS @ 6 oz/gallon, it was a night and day difference. The best part is no wicking the next day.

Took me 2-3 hours almost by myself, I also prevacced in every direction of the carpet fiber and post vacced as well due to cottons fibers coming loose. This was the 1st cleaning for this facility so i wanted to take the time. They had 2k carpet as well but yanked it out and put laminate because of how nasty it was.

In this scenario the op/cimex combo was a must, i did another area of the one i was working on started with cimex first and the end result was not as nice as picking up the soil first. But using both systems came out great. If it was light/med soil i would've been done in 30 mins with Cimex only.

I went thru 6 glads both sides(black) and 10 cotton both sides(black), 3 maxes(thin now).

Bill

You can use Fiber plus pads on a Orbot also, we use beige pads on our with great results.