Super Sylon

interesting find.

what a terrifying looking beast !!!

I agree with anna...it kind of reminds me of Darth Vader.

Does anyone know where this Hospital is located or contact information for the owner? If so please email me at kmartin@rwmartin.com

Kevin, I don't think Motts wants the site locations known (see below the submit comment button), for safety/legal reasons and stuff. But its up to him, so I don't know if he will tell you or not. I guess I'd say I doubt it.

Its always funny, when you see a shot of something in good shape, some looter always posts asking where it is. Greed gotta love it... =/

not bad but, I want to see the original prototype steam ironer made my the german inventor, Mangle or atleast one like Stephen King saw that took off a man's forearms.

gee, but kevin would have to have a mighty big pickup truck to get that thing outta there!

kinda neat that they left that. Tho its probably to heavy....but still. I could use one in my house..maybe i could borrow it

Sylon !!?

BSG anyone? =P

OMG those are so usefull i hate doing table cloths it takes so long to iron...

A little late on the uptake here, but don't knock kevin because he wants to know where the place is. If you go to the webpage that matches his address, it looks like he actually just wants to make use of something that's going to waste. He either works for or owns an automated laundry machine business.

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Twisted Mind, I saw that movie too (and read the short story...Stephen King's "The Mangler")...pretty freaky! That was actually the first thing I thought of once I read Mott's caption telling us what this machine was.

my wife needs one of these...!!

Sylon....scary...sounds like it impregnates the linens with Zyklon B (what the Nazi's used in gas chambers).... No more trouble some patients...More pate`, anyone?

A bird may be known by its flight

I used to work with these machines.

Pretty fun until you get your shirt caught!

a very nice flatwork ironer many of them still in use today.. this machine was built well into the 60s the model shown is from around th 40s

What a beast! I'd hate to get my sleeve caught in that!

I've used a machine very similar to that, when I worked at a laundry one summer!

Cool lighting! Scary looking machine though...looks like you could lose some fingers in there when it was running...

Two Words:

THE MANGLER...

There I go again! I am reading WAY too much Stephen King...

I used to work at a laundry (we used to do linen and such for businesses as well as hotel laundry and some nursing home laundry) and I used to work on a machine similar to this. Always scared the crapola outta me. I was afraid the dang thing would eat me alive! I am really small (barely 5 foot tall) so this machine was huge and intimidating for me.

Great shot Motts!

I work in a laundry and we have 4 of these machines, this one is in pristine shape. Most have been updated just keep the rolls and frame. Brand new ironers are close to $150,000, but you can grab one of these and rebuild it for around $25,000. With alittle upkeep they're last forever.

Looks like an army tank

So, that's what model this thing is. Interesting... Had no idea that it was from as far back as the 40's.
If that's the case then this one could indeed be the same type that took off that guy's forearms as King said that that happened right after WWII.

If I remember it right, these industrial ironing machines got their start as far back as the teens or 20's and employees frequently lost fingers, hands arms and so on from getting to close to the machine's moving parts or by getting their clothing caught in it such as was the case with the laundry co-worker that King mentioned.

I read "The Mangler" in Stephen King's "Night Shift" when I was 17. It scared me pretty good.
So good in fact that my fascination for large, powerful, machines quickly took on a healthy terror-driven respect as well!

The movie delivered on the special effects in making the machine look truly monstrous, bulky, long and old and the gothic look was a nice touch as well but, they butchered -no pun intended- the story line with the whole devil cult crap about sacrificing people to the machine and also added a lot of other garbage that wasn't necessary.

If you have any kind of fascination for big, scary, industrial machines or are curious about just how bad industrial accidents involving machines can be then, I highly recommend that you read "The Mangler"