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  1. soapy

    Veteran's Day free washes

    I have tried staffing my locations in the past but weather usually prevents much turnout. This year I am simply putting some wash tokens in a envelope good for a $10 wash. I put a envelope on each automatic and stock it with 5 tokens. I will be making the rounds several times a day on the 11th...
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    City water pressure

    My WP is about 75 but I can get low pressure sometimes at one location. I put a 200 gallon tank next to the holding tank and connected the 2 with a 3 inch line. That gives me plenty of reserve to never run out of water. It is the same size tank so no need to changed floats in the original tank.
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    Ryko $99,999 installed special

    I have used ryko washes for 25 years and they hold up very well. If you take care of them they will run for decades. I just bought a radius and while it is similar to 2001 OHD there have been several improvements that make it easier to work on and should make it last even longer. I would guess...
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    Road Film

    Low PH presoak generally works better on glass and chrome. Or so they say, I have used just high PH presoaks.
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    Auto bay door seal

    I hope you get yours installed soon so we can see a picture also.
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    $50,000 car wash Credit

    Hypothetical. For me I would add additional dryers to my automatics that I have not done this to yet. I figured if I said 100K everyone would say new automatics so I wanted to keep it lower to see what others wish lists would be.
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    $50,000 car wash Credit

    What would you get for your wash if you were given a $50,000 car wash credit?
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    Big decision on SoftGloss: Need advice please

    At minimum you should increase your night time washes. You have a peep guy already. Even 150 foot express tunnels still prep. I am all touchless but people who have both friction and touchfree day about 60% of the people use the friction. If you don't do it someone else will.
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    Ryko $99,999 installed special

    Soft gloss friction or touchless Radius. I just put in a Radius 3 weeks ago and so far not a single problem.
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    Jarvis 320W Scottsdale retrofit LED

    I put 10,000 lumen corn Cobb bulb in a old LSI ceiling fixture recently. I retired the old internals and wired in a regular medium base socket. The bulb is available at home depot for $70 and is equivalent to a 500 watt MH . They have a 3 year warranty and put out 5000k light color.
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    Kleen Rite Soaps

    I get a email notice telling what day it will be delivered and UPS will usually call me the day before to verify I will be available the next day. Then they always call me 1/2 hour before delivery.
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    Ryko $99,999 installed special

    I saw this introduced at the NACS show a few weeks back.
  13. soapy

    Auto bay door seal

    I installed this one yesterday and you can still see some of the salt that spilled out of my water softner salt bags. It makes a great weight for getting good adhesion during cure time of 24 hours. Mep1 I added some rubber bumpers around several vacs years ago and i think this product would be...
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    Self Service Bay Costs

    This months AUto Laundry News has the annual IBA survey. It shows that average gross income per SS bay at facilities with IBAs is $1958 per bay per month. I am pretty sure they still do a SS bay survey every year. One thing I have found over the years is that these magazine surveys tend to be...
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    Auto bay door seal

    I just installed another one today. I installed mine between the concrete blocks just on the outside of the door. My doors do not come down on top of the crown but you could install it that way if desired. On the 1 1/2 inch seal it would be very easy to slide some heat tape through the slots. I...
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    Kleen Rite Soaps

    I use Blue coral rain X and velocity for my wax products.
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    Kleen Rite Soaps

    I use correct powder in one IBA and another combo of Kleenrite soaps in 4 other IBAs and have been very happy with them.
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    Self Service Bay Costs

    I have a copy of the ICA study done years ago somewhere. The ICA is just kind of shunning the self service industry.
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    In search of used Ring-o-Matic 1000T

    Maybe he should be looking for a used septic cleaning truck. I see them come up for sale once in a while.
  20. soapy

    Weather___________________

    The weather app on my I phone.
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