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  1. mjwalsh

    Credit Card Fees

    Robert2181 & others, My concern is that ... & I believe is valid ... is that if there becomes not enough of us willing to make an effort to have cash as our dominant payment method we are eliminating a lever for keeping those merchant fees within the proper range without begging for "usually...
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    Pit Cleaning Techniques?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aR-J3BRWI
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    coin box thermostatically controlled heater

    Oops ... we made the false assumption before ordering that the thermostat would turn on at a higher than the 45 degrees we keep the bay temperature at when both doors are shut. Ideally, there would be sensor that was made that would on & off based on our much moisture was building up in the...
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    coin box thermostatically controlled heater

    Does anyone have experience with this specific KR-GinSan coin box heater thermostat or any other coin box thermostats? Does this or another thermostat turn on at about 50 degrees Farenheit & off before it hurts coin box electronics? For some reason it is not turning on for us ... we are...
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    New vending machine

    John, That huge "guaranteed delivery" sign is really cool. Now if $1 coins plus $2 coins & $5 dollar bills become dominant it will tend to work out even better ... in my opinion. mike
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    Tankless Water Heater For Floor Heat

    2Biz, Based on our experience, both your system & presentation make very good sense! We don't have a instant wall mount like yours yet; but we do have a closed loop boiler system that it does not have any danger of thermal shock from low inlet water temperature. In fact, there is a...
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    Fixin' a boiler...got extra parts!!!

    We once had a McDonnell flow switch paddle break off & ended up right at the pump suction.
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    ATM Placement

    pgrzes, We have no regrets putting in ours almost 2 years ago. There is an ATM across the street from us at a bar, 2 blocks away at a Cenex convenience store, 3 blocks away at a Tesoro Gas station drive tunnel car wash, 4 blocks away at a 7-11 franchise convenience store. With the proper...
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    J. E. Adams Turbo Towel

    Sparkey, Have you had success by going by the cfm ratings of the motors? It seems like cfms for these blow dryers would be easier to calculate than the suction for vacuum cleaners since with the vacuums there are a lot of variables such as seals filter bag surface etc. I am sure if you...
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    J. E. Adams Turbo Towel

    Waright & others, I found this distributor that handles the Wiota. http://www.wiotadoor.com/index_files/page0003.htm They refer to their 2 motors as 8.5 amp high powered turbine motors with some kind of a needed filter. I wonder if they are onto to a way to have enough air volume & force...
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    J. E. Adams Turbo Towel

    Bubbles & Packercw, From a phone call with J.E. Adams I found out the nozzle is soft rubber which makes sense ... that should eliminate the need for a switch. It can't do any damage even if it did start flying a bit it seems with that style vs plastic. Isn't Tom Hoffman is using a cone style...
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    J. E. Adams Turbo Towel

    The more I look at this in bay hand blow dryer the more it makes sense. http://www.jeadams.com/Product/Turbo-Towel-Hot-Air-Dryer/104/Turbo-Towel.aspx It seems like the 220 VAC single motor design could be a good thing as long as the single motor is not too exotic, special order &/or possibly...
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    A third choice for hand held blow dry?

    bigleo48, Are you using the Mosmatic wall boom or center mount? I notice that an operator can buy an extension to make their standard size longer ... which I think could help it so there is less chance of the hose being over the vehicle dripping on to the vehicle. My bays tend to be about 33...
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    A third choice for hand held blow dry?

    In todays mail I received a flyer about XactAirDryer with their website shown: http://www.xactairdryer.com/index.html Has anyone checked to see if its performance is similar to CarDry or AirShammie? I checked out both of those when I was in Houston recently but now it looks like there is a...
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    911 “Burglary in Progress” Send Help NOW!!!

    Randy, We are not sure that jail time is always the answer considering we actually have had situations where a young man asks us to call the cops on him. If we don't ... they actually will do something bad. When the cops come down they holler at them & point to the street & say "we're not no...
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    For those CFL converts…

    Mep & others, These are kind of spendy but if you have an analog voltage input module for a PLC or other similar programmable device ... from our experience they work better than regular photocell switches. You can certainly tweak the lights' automatic on-off trigger much better. We are glad...
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    water softener tank

    MikeExpress, I see ... it is in your fiberglass tank where the resin is not the brine tank. I should have read more carefully on this specific post. We had a problem a few years ago with a fiberglass portion where there was a pinhole. A boat repair person used a fiberglass patch. We thought...
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    Brand recognition - funny story

    Brite Auto, We used to have a large Simoniz Wax Banner up at one time & I agree. It seems overall customers can be more sophisticated nowadays than they used to be when it comes to noticing the actual performance & results vs the hype &/or perception. I always noticed one of our local gas...
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    water softener tank

    MikeExpress, We once took our plastic brine tank to an RV place & they had a plastic welder & it lasted many years until we rerouted all our car wash water so it went through the laundromat's water softener. We have found it is not wise to store anything more than a few pounds even temporarily...
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    Essential services in semi-rural 3-bay SS

    Earl, i am confused :confused: ... it seems like your SS transaction would have a higher cost than the EE because it is a lower revenue per transaction than the EE? Also i am thinking that the customers who put in a convenient $5 bill tend to spend more than if they were feeding in $1 bills...
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