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2Biz, I think you are wise not buying new vacs unless you are interested in the fragrance &/or shampoo combos. Awhile back we had a project where were going to use the stainless steel dome part for another purpose. It appeared like all of the newer vacs were using a lighter gauge of stainless...

Daveee123, Stuart makes some good points. If you do invest in a good multimeter ... one of its selections will be to measure ohms (resistance). We have found success in writing down the ohms of pertinent good solenoids after measuring with the multimeters probes ... preferably brand new...

Daveee123 & MEP001, Just to be clear & to avoid a misunderstanding. The binding to the ground is not done on the 240VAC primary. One of the terminals on the 24VAC secondary of the multiple transformers are bound together to the earth ground. Specialty Equipment's installers did it that way &...

Fellow Self Service Operators, Did anyone beside myself carefully listen to last Thursday's 4.5 hours of testimony from electronic payment experts etc? I did not hear anything about exempting self service car washes from the proposed change of liability. Correct me if I am wrong but I did...

Daveee123, This may not help in this situation but ... Did you say that you tried a spare timer to see if the problem follows? In my opinion & of many engineers ... the better wiring is to have one side of the 24VAC on all the transformers be connected to the earth ground to avoid floating...

Thomas, Check with an ATM seller in your area first ... compare their price & their contract & terms of free initial setup (it requires expertise). Compare all this with some ATM sellers that you google. It has been over 4 years now & the only real maintenance was replacing a keypad which the...

tdlconceptsllc, If you have a somewhat dry & sheltered area with "in the wall" install capability ... I would check into the price of an in the wall ATM & see how it compares to an in the wall bill to bill breaker. Also I would check to see how prevalent it is that some of your local banks &...

Soapy, I respectfully disagree ... especially for those of us who only have self service wand style car wash bays which I feel has different considerations than bigger ticket forms of automatic washing & detail offerings. I think is makes sense to at least allow more time for a more "fail...

Sorry I.B. It was an "oops" omission on my part. I did edit the post to add "ATM"

TDLCONCEPTS, I.B. reflects our positive experience to a great extent with dispensing the higher denomination coins from two Standard Changemakers also since the year 2000. We still dispense a portion in quarters of which we are hoping to dispense a smaller or no portion of the more bulky...

MrFixIt & others, Thanks! It looks like Dultmeier might make the most sense with their $439 autobackflush L0005FL. It looks like it is within Speedee's regional delivery for us so freight should not be too bad. I am not sure what kind of settings is the best for the autobackflush??? Anybody...

OK .... So do most of the car wash suppliers sell just the activated charcoal filter setup portion of a single 4" x 40" membrane RO - Spot Free system? Are there other suppliers that also sell that portion of the system that can be adapted to a chlorine tolerant but not pH tolerant RO CA...

I wonder if the following would be a good choice for some of us who do not have a charcoal filter with tank set up...

MrFixit & others, Is this what you are referring to? http://www.filterwater.com/p-135-high-flow-whole-house-filter.aspx It looks like the filter only specifications of up to 60psi 6gpm & up to 80,000 total gallon ($165 filter CH Chloramine Reducing version) longevity could possibly be an...

I.B. Washin, You point out something for all of us to what to watch out for in this day & age of sooo many expensive printed circuit boards. We have 2 PCBs on each of our 16 laundromat dryers. One of the PCBs has a design flaw that when a relay sticks a certain way it burns a conductor path...

Randy, I think what some don't realize that when it comes to buying out of state located supplies & parts ... a high state local sales tax often ... depending on the state ... becomes a "use tax". This is where we were blown away by one of our state tax department auditors who continued to use...

Whale, In 1987 we had Specialty from Minneapolis install ... according to them ... the most advanced $$$ coin meter ever. A problem was that those latest & greatest were discontinued within 5 years later. The distribution boards ... when they got wet enough ... they would temporarily give...

A. Milton, I am not sure this is what you have in mind but it is very similar to what we have been using for our pet vac hose. We found them at a local business that specializes in Vacuums & sewing machines...

Mach1 & others, If your softened water coming into the RO system has a pH of between 6 & 7, a chlorine tolerant cellulose acetate membrane might work as good as a TFC membrane (which requires a charcoal filter for longevity). We have been using a buffer to lower the pH enough since 1987 ...

BBE, pgrzes & others, Did you two & others go with the vandal resistant momentary switches instead of rotary switches? We went from toggles to touchpad membrane back in 1987 & a few years ago we went with close to vandal proof momentary switches so I really don't have a good feel for how much...