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I'll try to remember to keep the next one I find. I don't know why I find one on the ground probably once a week, maybe they replace them with the short rubber ones.

Can't they also be connected via ethernet? Is that an option for you if they can?

I don't know, I'll have to throw together a quote for all the parts. Everything has gotten really expensive.

Nylon tubing, I've done it at least a hundred times and never had it get stuck.

This forum is mainly for professional car wash owners and operators. You'll have better luck with your question on a DIY forum.

Speed Queen makes washers for home use.

I use a piece of 3/8" tubing.

Quarters will run through a thin wall 1 1/4" tube if you can get it down through the existing pipe.

You can also advertise on Facebook really cheap, like $1 a day. That will target people who live near you. It's important to have a nice image, because a lot will like it just for the image, but the result is the same, all their friends will see it.

Just check for air pressure going to the treadle. It's usually a small rock caught in the lift plate.

The beeper doesn't go off with the manual washdown.

That will surely draw too much current.

You'll probably get your adrenaline fix from running off the drug dealers.

I enjoy this business, but I wouldn't call it fun. Cleaning is at best boring. On a 110° summer day cleaning up 5 quarts of used diesel motor oil someone ran over, it's downright awful. I enjoy spending a few minutes getting to know a customer once in a while, and I don't mind washing down...

I assume you used a reusable fitting? If the hose is old and brittle, it can be tough to get a repair to hold. The only time I repair a hose is if it looks relatively new and it rubbed through on something.

It depends on the area. Where I live 30 seconds per coin is about the most you'll find, $1.50 for 3 minutes or $2 for 4 minutes is common. Some are charging twice that for the same time. In San Antonio, there are still 50¢ car washes giving as much as two minutes to start. IMO you want to be...

No, Austin area. I avoid Houston like the plague.

I ran a wash about in that state, making about the same amount. I cranked the chemicals up good and strong, fixed the spot free and softener, kept it clean, and I'd run everything every day with coins to be sure it all worked. It took a few years, but those things alone took it from about...

I'd be one that would hire someone and be willing to teach them. I assume there are others that would do the same. I mentioned before that there's really not a lot of things that go wrong that are complicated. The basics you'll pick up being hands-on. Rebuilding a pump is pretty...

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