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Hasn't affected mine yet. Just about everyone is charging $4.49 and up as of last night. My customers are buying big SUVs right now because they're dropping in price while the upper-middle class is buying hybrids and Teslas.

The confusion lies in what you're calling "rinse." Hot water for the pump comes from the tank. Hot water is for soap and wax. Cold water is for rinse. All the water comes into the pump from the same inlet. They may label the tank "rinse," but it's not if you have hot AND cold water.

It is, and if you plumb hot water to it and have cold rinse, the actual rinse selection is fed direct from city pressure by the solenoid. Only soap and wax draw from the hot water in the tank.

If you can swap the outer blower covers and angle them in toward the car, it'll dry the sides.

Your customers won't want to pull to a different spot to use a standalone dryer. If you want dryers, you really should put them in the existing bays. I have seen a number of people do this and get almost no use of it.

It uses a 572 Hydrominder for the "rinse" tank, but the water for rinse is fed to the pump from solenoids, most likely the same as your current setup.

Yeah, this thread was bumped from four years ago.

You've had your say over and over. Give it a rest already.

If I had multiple washes, I'd brand them alike, use custom-printed tokens and take them at all the washes, try to keep all the washes equipped and working the same, etc.

If it's green, it might be tire cleaner. There's something contaminating it for sure. Spot free water should be too clean for algae to grow in it.

I have run 450 PSI with 3/8" OD tubing and a 390 pump, I don't think my current cutomers care that it's 225, but the ones at a high end wash do.

I send them to AECO sales in Tecumseh OK and spend about $90 for the same thing.

Yes, the stupid little tanks, the solenoids and all the wiring to them, all the hoses back to the ball valves. I've done the exact same thing three times.

I wouldn't say Standard is a bad changer, but as both a tech and an operator I would always use/recommend Hamilton. I keep a spare of everything for the Hamilton, which has mostly come from eBay fairly cheap. You're not likely to find a Standard hopper used (There is one on there now, I don't...

They're auto-generated links to Hoffman Mint because they're a forum advertiser.

I use a 3/4 HP motor and 2504 series Procon pump, a 500 PSI SMC regulator, 3/8" OD tubing, and run the pump at 225 PSI.

Is that a single barb for the inlet? That's going to cause a restriction in flow when you have multiple bays running. I suggest a minimum of 1" full flow to the manifold. You might want to consider 1/2" hose to the pumps. I use blue 1/2" hose from Kleen-Rite and push-lock barbs with flare...

Definitely Hamilton with Mars bill acceptors. I haven't done anything to mine in the last two years but dump coins in it, and it's 21 years old.

The 511 has an anti-siphon valve. Normally you'd make a hole in the discharge hose off the Hydrominder, but you might end up with a mess if the tank is open. The 506 is the same thing minus the siphon breaker.

Fragramatics used to make it, don't know for sure if they still do. It was a nice looking SS piece.