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Fellow & future self serve car wash operators, I happened to stumble onto the following relatively new website that I thought I would share since it is relevant to especially to the self service format among us.* *https://cashessentials.org/news/ I really think they are fulfilling a need for...

Cough cough sneeze sneeze sore throat hack hack .... sorry I was a bit too quick on the description & not thorough enough on the specific item. There may be other similar steam inhaler items that also require distilled water ... not sure. Steam-inhaler would have been a better description ...

I don't know what percentage of us have tandem bays ... but almost since day one we have always kept our start up lower than the competition to encourage a quick pull forward between inserts keeping both tandem bays being used. Anybody else have that consideration tugging at them a bit?

I have a respirator-humidifier that calls for distilled water. Good RO should qualify since the concern is calcification.

I think Jason is talking about where the boom itself is the conduit for the water immediately after the inlet manifold goes into the inlet of the main overhead swivel inlet. There would be the end hi pressure hose of course with the gun but that would be connected to that boom-water conduit...

Thanks 2 Biz, Mep & others ... I never thought about the potential waste. The sellers/or users of such systems used too always play up the "simplicity" of such systems. First glance appearances apparently can be deceiving. On our low pressure items, our customers purposely let go of the...

We wait for a sale & hope that one of the places are the ones who put a pallet on our pickup truck. Our neighbor has been kind enough to allow his forklift used for a few minutes & we also now store the salt outside rather than using valuable inside space. We are due to get some ... it looks...

Replacing seals are kind of spendy too. There is one of our pumps that seems to temporarily develop pulsing. Usually we can track it to a low supply tank or a leak in the soap or wax tubing. On this one ... we even replaced inlet seals more than once & it still about once a month mysteriously...

Chaz, Good Strategy! Just to add a variation & still accept credit/debit etc. ... I think some of us operators should check to see if there is a strong dominance of Banks & Credit Unions in their area that take care of (with zero hassles) all ATM fees. That is the case in our area. The...

Randy, I wonder if the job would require an industrial lab grade grounded soldering station to prevent potential cmos damage???

Since we are actually using 1/4" hi pressure hose to be lighter for the customer ... I am thinking this would work & be a bit cheaper besides. We have what looks to be identical 1/2" Parker 300PSI we are using with our 32+ laundromat washing machine project. We just horse shoe bent it like...

wash12 & others, I know I am talking a concept now & it possibly is not too late for some operators to arrange it. I am speaking from experience of successfully having an ATM now for over 6 years, two 4 hopper Std ChangeMakers, & bill acceptors in each of 6 bays. The ideal would be to have a...

That what we use currently after discontinuing coil hoses. No kinking seems the big plus. Mep's suggestion only made sense because the hose does go bad by the brush's handle-bend restrictor with wire braid. The Continental hose seems like a lot easier to fix with a pushlock on the end that...

Are you referring to: https://www.kleen-ritecorp.com/p-2627-continental-grey-insta-grip-hose-38-inch.aspx to be used with https://www.kleen-ritecorp.com/p-31578-pushlock-barb-38.aspx ???

hmm.... 50 x $400 = Just thinking out loud ... if I am allowed to... $20k+ for a smaller laundromat attached to a self service car wash + no guarantee that overall merchant fee cost will not creep up along with like Randy Nix says close to 10% tax in his state which can happen in any state of...

Our Town, We have had good luck with the KR one. An almost identical one also could be bought from TSC (Tractor Supply Co) in our area. We have a Cox non jerking hose retracting reel behind a wall which seems to make for much less of what Earl described. The reel was spendy. We waited for...

Ghetto Wash, Thanks for the heads up for some of us. Not to be too negative but it seems like for some locations ... merchant fee based formats are not worth it. We know from past posts that you are in one of the toughest areas in the USA where cashless could be helpful ... but it comes down...

Keith, If we did that ... our luck would be some even heavier forklift being washed would have a wheel right where the fiberglass would be vulnerable. I did what Mep suggested. A long term friend welding fabricator & supply local out Glenn's Welding ... even though Glenn has lots of employees...

Sorry for the delay in getting back to your good question: It turns out my main guy used up the last one so mine can go out albeit rarely... sometimes we shamefully do not let each other know or keep perfect inventory. It has been so long since ordering ... I am not sure 100% what brand. It...

Jason & others, I hope this helps. Microcoin QL have worked out the best for us for several years ... when it comes to multi-coin ability. For single coin ... over 25 years of very close to zero ever issue ... Parker or Parker's patent holding of the single coin GinSan's before we tried IDX...