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  1. mjwalsh

    Fleck System Brine Tank Overflowing Wasting Salt

    2Biz, It seems like there is more than one kind of Morton's? Are you & MEP001 referring to the "Morton System Saver Pellets" ? How about...
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    Excuses

    Debra, I have fun with some of my laundromat customers trying to shame them into also using our car wash. Sometimes it works ... sometimes they are offended ... sometimes their excuse is "it will just get dirty again anyway!" As far as messy ... I don't know if anyone else has seen some (not...
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    Foam brush heads

    I was thinking the same thing rather than "going hogwild" ordering a couple of dozen of them. So so so sorry for the bad pun ... It is usually better IMHO to try one or two of anything new it seems better getting to many. Unless on some item loses its "quality control" then it is harder to...
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    Salting driveways and lots.

    We do similar to Soapy. We have an 1840 Case skid steer that we scrap our lot quickly enough ourselves. There can be slight patches here & there & we do use either sand or salt or a combination of both to make it less likely someone slip ... especially glare skating rink type of ice. If sued...
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    Dumpster Divers' Character Profile, Please?!!

    Just to add ... Waste Management provides our lock & it is set up so when they dump their equipment does not require an unlock process. The drawback is that when we dump our smaller barrels into it we need to unlock the lock. During cold weather there is less of a need for the lock we find...
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    Floor heat boiler questions

    Since concrete holds heat pretty good ... we do somewhat the opposite. During the day when it is warmer our deicer tends not to run because our boiler controls are set to prioritize for our domestic hot water heating which includes both the wand bay water & the laundromat's washing machine warm...
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    Water heater gremlins strike in the dead of night

    We don't regret going the digital route. Independent Energy in RI is where we got about seven nifty controllers & they are still functioning perfectly since about 1990. I notice they may have updated or discontinued what they offered then but it seems that other brands might be just as capable...
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    Fleck System Brine Tank Overflowing Wasting Salt

    I wonder if either of the below Mortons would do just as good for the Fleck Softeners? One is crystals & the other is pellets...
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    Foam brush heads

    Time Factor Concern: How long have they proven themselves not to crack & possibly the tapped threads in plastic not lasting? I would hate to see the handles loosen up eventually because of the less durability of plastic threads vs Erie's metal threads. The brush appears shorter than the Erie...
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    Fleck System Brine Tank Overflowing Wasting Salt

    Yesterday, we disconnected the line to the brine barrel & cleaned the float & sucked thoroughly (with a shop vac) where the float assembly fits downward. As I suspected we found impurities that had accummulated ... as even bigger than pea size black hard rockish material etc. Sometime when the...
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    Sad news from Kleen Rite

    My heart goes out to those close to Tom. Hopefully, Kleen-Rite has someone in the wings who can at least partially fill his shoes. Sometimes, I think we too often we take each other for granted until one of us is gone!
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    Foam brush heads

    A little bit labor intensive with a need to tap threads for the handle??? I like the fact I can possibly add an N with the H on our hogs hair sign? Maybe a transition to them is in order considering how expensive the hogs hair brushes have become. We also bought in such large quantities on...
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    Foam brush heads

    I use Erie Hog's Hair long but not the longest choice. Done both whole & just refill. Lately the price difference is so little that we have been doing whole. Question: If your competition is using the cheapest nylon brushes ... how do you educate or advertise to your customers that you have...
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    Evolution dog wash

    The Evolutions are focused also to high end apartment-condominium complexes ... often including the units as free from what I have gathered. My new credit card accepting car wash competition now has five of the Evolution Stations. I am sure glad that we went the extra length to make our two...
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    Boiler leak

    Out of curiosity, I wonder how labor intensive it is to replace that tube assembly. We have a 399K BTU Raypak that was used only for a little over 10 years & only with proper pH antifreeze for our deicer. We plan on taking it out to free up space in our equipment room since we routed the...
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    Grease laurel vendors?

    Chip is the best based on past experience.
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    Heck of a find for surveillance system

    I believe a worthwhile goal when it comes to IP cameras & NVRs is to make sure they are both POE capable. That is the direction I have been taking the last few years. POE ... power over ethernet helps to simplify the system IMHO.
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    Floor heat boiler questions

    OurTown, We actually had the paddle break more than once on some of our flow switches. Our solution was to reinforce at the base where the paddle was breaking with thin stainless flat. I think we cut using material from the spare paddles that came extra with the flow switches ... if I...
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    What do you use for accounting? Anyone use Quicken Home and Business? What Version QB

    cityview & others, Something tells me that it was a lot easier to customize MS Access than with Quicken or Quickbooks. As in when we connected with serial cables to our two 600EF Standard ChangeMakers & to our Cummins 2000 Coin Counter. There is no question that some productivity was gained...
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    Biggest Pet Peeves --- and solutions

    I ran across a post here I made that was too easy to be taken out of context. So I took the liberty to delete the couple of short sentences. Nobody responded to this specific one so I hopefully Debra the thread owner & the moderator will not mind this specific time. Thanks
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