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The lumens on the LED 4 foot fixture mentioned above is only 3060. You would need 3 of these to put out the same amount of light as 1 T5 HO fixture. The Leds would use less power but they are only rated for 50,000 hours so you could never save enough money on electricity to offset the extra cost.

i bought some GE T5HO bulbs in the 5000K, 36000 hour for around $3.26 each from 1000 bulbs. I bought the case amount with free shipping. My local supplier wanted over $10 per bulb. i have had good luck with GE or sylvania.

I think it would be a good idea to have a recurring section in the paper dedicated to the stories of car wash criminals. Every car wash owner has a bunch of stories and most of them are about stupid criminals. I bet you could get several stories for each publication that would be funny and...

When I built my first car wash I had a factory installed weep reclaim system. It had floats built in to replace lost weep water and also a heater as cold water needed to be heated to keep it from freezing. It also had a solenoid that would open in case of power failure. After a few years I took...

Do you have power getting to the heater? I have seen the switch fail on my extractors before.

Are you looking for one for a vacuum or a wash bay. I had to make some for one wash I was building for the SS bays. I used 4 inch square tube steel embedded in a concrete stem wall. It has worked out great.

I had a call from Blue Pay yesterday regarding new upgrades that will need to be made to my Etowah Valley SS bay credit card system. It will consist of new computer chips and programming. BP said it will also result in cheaper processing fees. I think all this has to be done by 3/16/15. The new...

i found the new issue of SSCWN in the mail yesterday. So far I only have read through 1/2 of it but I am really impressed. I like the articles from various regional shows that reflect open discussions by real life operators and not "advisors" . I saw several new ideas that went into more depth...

i do not have any of mine hooked up to the internet so I am not worried about this. I do know of one large chain that offered the monthly unlimited wash program where they bill customers credit cards at the beginning of every month that got hacked. All the credit cards where kept in a file for...

I have had credit card in SS bays now for 8 years. 3 of my locations use a system that does not have a digital reader display similar to what you see with crypto pay. At one location I have the wash gear system that has a display that people can read and it gives them instructions and shows...

If someone drives or backs into a stationary object it is there fault. If someone drove into the side of your building is that your fault for putting the wall there?

This is for a fellow wash operator I met a few years back. They have a old superwash in Colorado with 2 hydrospray built IBA. One of the Autos lost its program and the replacement program they got from hydrospray is a generic setup that has not been tweeked to operate for this location. Does...

I buy my rain x direct from blue coral. It is still priced high but has name recognition that others don't and it works well.

I had a location with a triple foam gun that applied a 3 color polish/waX. It got used very little so I switched it out to Rain X and it gets used 3X as much. I offer low pressure Rain X in all my SS bays now instead of high pressure wax application.

I use rain x at all locations. 3 locations use it exclusively as the only wax function and one location offers it along with a HP wax. Offering both seems to be better but the rain x has a definite following at all locations.

On a similar note from the Wall Street Journal, American airlines said it will keep rates as if the price of oil was still $100 per barrel. This will result in no air fare drops and an additional 5 billion dollar profit per year for the airline.

I guess we should listen to RR and forget about the cost side of running a wash. Just raise your prices every time you see a increase in your costs and people will come.

At Sam's club yesterday and took picture of current gas prices. I remember over the last 6 years all the price raises for our chemicals and the explanation was usually because of the rise of petroleum prices. Now that it has dropped by more than 1/2 I doubt that we will see any kind of rollback...

Eric, your system sounds like a old ryko unit. I found it much cheaper utility wise to get rid of the circualting pump and run heat cable in the trough and just use flojet pumps in place of the recirulating pumps.

On a good note for all car washes I read in the Wall Street Journal that it is expected that oil will stay below $65 a barell for the next 5 years.