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  1. mjwalsh

    Trying to figure out Procon pump model for Futura Self Serve spot free rinse delivery

    Randy & others, I was in Mpls for a CLA event back in 201l & I actually stopped by & visited with Sheldon Russell. It clearly showed that they had scaled way back but they were still some workers & some service in the large facility over 50,000 sq foot facility/plant that they had. Back in...
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    Polymer Presoaks

    Specialty Equipment used to have LYE based soap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hydroxide We had a bad experience where some guy kept going over & over his vehicle. He had just had some kind of special $100 sealant put on by a local Detailer. The sodium hydroxide supposedly is what...
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    Sales Tax coming to our state

    There should be hearings before a tax committee. That is the time to present & hopefully not just as one person.
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    Futura Products

    What year was the Futura Equipment built? You might want to post or link to some pictures. For the simple reason that there was quite a range of specifications that Specialty used to build ... somewhat as ordered. Each manual was tailored to what they had built for the car wash owner. Some...
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    Best Pit Cleaner

    swampdonkey & others, There is somewhat of a monopoly when it comes to dumpster trash pickup in our area & they told me firmly upfront that absolutely no dirt should go into the dumpster. They do monitor it because if we temporarily leave it unlocked & a vehicle tire is disposed unknown to us...
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    Lockset recommendations

    MEOP001, To clarify ... I was thinking about piping placed internal in an ER entrance door where the criminal would be most likely to grind. The pressure water hookup could pivot with a swivel fitting on the doors hinge side. A welder among us who didn't mind modifying his ER entrance door...
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    Best Pit Cleaner

    water guy, I have heard of someone ... it seems like it was a forum member who might still be around ... not sure. He was very innovative. I believe he designed his pits so they actually could be cleaned out with the bucket of his front end loader. Hopefully, someone remembers more details...
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    Lockset recommendations

    It seems like some brand new vehicles have some lock unlock systems that are kind of hidden embedded in the metal on the driver's side & activated by phone or by touching points in a code like way. A laundry customer was showing it off to me but ... he did not explain the details of it that...
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    Best Pit Cleaner

    JamboWash, I used to shovel by hand into a custom made dump trailer. Based on that & experience & observing the local pit pumper contractors ... I would say that a vacuum style is more thorough. Some of the contractors have better vacuum tanks than others. It seems like septic tank vacuums...
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    Are self service car washes going extinct ?

    6t7gto, Possibly an opportunity to answer the review ... in a way that sheds light on where your car wash actually does better in other ways to more than make up for the "merchant fee based" passed on to customer approach! Soapy ... has a good point about how previous young people had more of...
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    Keeping water/mist off camera lenses

    When we first put in cameras for each of our inside bays way back in 1982 the outdoor housings that were available had an option for windshield wipers. We actually still have them. We might be able to get them to work again ... not sure. Have you checked to see if anybody still sells such a...
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    What temp do you run your floor heat boiler?

    We are using condensing boilers from Hydrotherm Hydropulse. The brochure when brand new was saying that a church with far reaching old cast iron radiators that would allow the return temperature to get as low as possible would greatly increase the boilers efficiency. So we try to make the...
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    raspberry Pi for Carwash

    We went the UNO route with our current testing & will soon to proceed to update the controls on all of our 32 laundromat commercial washing machines. A word of caution ... it helps to get familiar with Finite State Machine Skills within the UNO ... C & C++. We successfully tested 100% in a...
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    Especially for glycol in copper propress pipe fittings

    Eric, Earl & others, I am thinking it is a step above shark bite because of the up to 4" vs much smaller for the shark bite. I have not compared fittings cost with shark bite but the propress possibly over $50 tool rental per day should be factored in also. As in needing to be super organized...
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    What's in your wash?

    I was on a Windows 10 computer & fumbled with both Chrome & Microsoft Edge on the forum site & because i am so smart i finally figured out that i had to go into the send email ... surprise surprise the signature edit showed up! I did not go back on my those available previous almost 2,000 posts...
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    Windshield washer fluid or RV anti freeze?

    Slash007, I sounds like the Smartthings text made you check your cameras quicker ... so also having the video cam app make it kind of a one alert & then two verification. I still think it could have value in the sense you could be confident calling 911 in the event of a break in etc. The...
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    What's in your wash?

    Apparently you are more skilled even more than I imagined. Sorry for the post & that it might be taken wrong by some. You are welcome to delete if you so choose. No problemo!
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    Especially for glycol in copper propress pipe fittings

    It just seems that if we ever needed to redo our copper pipes that have glycol in them propress could be the best way to go? I wonder what the going rates tend to be for renting the tool is though? I remember it being tougher to solder once glycol was in the copper line on some redo work...
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    What's in your wash?

    Come Clean ... nobody can type that fast! It had to be some kind of an automated nerdy process.
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    Windshield washer fluid or RV anti freeze?

    dukeofsudes, Thanks for the details ... this could be a candidate for its own thread but on the other hand we are just including that there are other sensors also besides the relevant to this thread's freezing-temperature consideration. I am starting to think that the Smartthings would be a...
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