Hard mount or soft mount?

[student]

In your tunnel wash, you probably use a washer-extractor to clean your towels since most people use slightly damp towels for cleaning windows. Many people use a soft mount 300G washer extractor, but most of these machines are foreign made, including Continental and Ipso.

Has anyone successfully used a U.S. made, hard mount machine to wash and extract towels? Speed Queen makes a hard mount machine that achieves 140G force and Dexter makes a machine that reaches 200G force. Is 140G enough force to extract your towels? Thanks in advance for telling about your experience!

 

[Washmee]

In your tunnel wash, you probably use a washer-extractor to clean your towels since most people use slightly damp towels for cleaning windows. Many people use a soft mount 300G washer extractor, but most of these machines are foreign made, including Continental and Ipso.

Has anyone successfully used a U.S. made, hard mount machine to wash and extract towels? Speed Queen makes a hard mount machine that achieves 140G force and Dexter makes a machine that reaches 200G force. Is 140G enough force to extract your towels? Thanks in advance for telling about your experience!

I just replaced my 15 year old Continental 30lb soft mount machine. I purchased 2- 20lb Continental machines. 140 or 200g's is not enough to get a sufficiently dry towel for car wash use. If a US manufacturer made a soft mount machine that delivered 300G I would have bought one. BTW, most car washes use damp towels for more than just windows.

 

[mjwalsh]

I just replaced my 15 year old Continental 30lb soft mount machine. I purchased 2- 20lb Continental machines. 140 or 200g's is not enough to get a sufficiently dry towel for car wash use. If a US manufacturer made a soft mount machine that delivered 300G I would have bought one. BTW, most car washes use damp towels for more than just windows.

Jon,

I know this is kind of a hypothetical --- let's say there is a washer-extractor available that was USA made that was also price competitive with the Continental & proven to be low maintenance --- that had 800G. The energy consumption was also the same as the Continental or less.

Based on those proven attributes is there a g-force that you would say could sqeeze too much water out of the towels for your tunnel use?

MJ

 

[Washmee]

Jon,

I know this is kind of a hypothetical --- let's say there is a washer-extractor available that was USA made that was also price competitive with the Continental & proven to be low maintenance --- that had 800G. The energy consumption was also the same as the Continental or less.

Based on those proven attributes is there a g-force that you would say could sqeeze too much water out of the towels for your tunnel use?

MJ

Is there such a machine out there right now?

If it is controlled by a VFD then you should be able to set the G forces to what ever you desire. You could also adjust the cycle time to leave more water in the towel. At 300 G's I need about a 3 min cycle to acheive a perfect towel. The machine also needs a programable logic controller to be able to make all the desired wash cycles like I can do with the Continental. I paid about $8000 for two 20 pound machines including installation .