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  1. soapy

    Line-X/Rhino Linings

    There are several water based bed liners that go on with a roller and no spray booth is required. Heculiner is one and I think Duplo also now makes one.
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    Simoniz vs. Mothers

    Unlike Mothers and others who pat themselves on the back all the time the Simoniz ad barely identified who paid for it. It was a pat on the back for the professional car wash industry not for Simoniz.
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    I never cease to be amazed

    Red, I have about the same policy as you do with my prescrub bucket for my automatics. Yesterday while I was in the equipment room I saw a guy pull up in his new Audi station wagon into one of the SS bays. He got a grocery bag out of his car filled with quart glass jars. He went to the prescrub...
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    Simoniz vs. Mothers

    In the JUly Motor Trend magazine on page 23 Simoniz has a ad showing the entrance to a carwash with the tag line " Gateway to Heaven". It goes on to explain the benefits of using a professional car wash. At the bottom of the ad the tag line is "Professional Car Washes Passion... Delivered. It...
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    Ceilings- Why?

    I know on my washes that the steel ceiling perlins are required for structural integrity of the building. Earth quake codes are the reason. I have seen many washes built with a open end bay that has no roof. Most people who have one say they would never do it again. Lisa Lyons has a wash in So...
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    Dixmor ACW display

    You must need glasses real bad Pat. I can read mine from over 60 feet away. I also am upgrading the rest of my ACws to use this new display.
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    Etowah Valley CC Signage

    I am using count up credit card with the Etowah Valley system. I have a small decal that I put right above the reader. It says the following 1. Slide card to activate wash cycle 2. To end wash cycle turn wash selector to stop 3. $2.50 minimum -- $10 maximum per swipe
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    Hamilton Controller repair needed

    Randy is the man for this sort of thing.
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    Gas + 2 Cycle Oil on Tan Carpet...Suggestions

    You should get a stain cleaning guide for your detail shop. I have one I got from Bud that explains how to clean each stain you might come across. Another good scource is to simply type in the words" stain removal" in a search engine and find out how to clean something on an internet site. I...
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    Hitting a Detail Biz Home Run?

    Not sure what a home run is in the detailing business. I have been doing for about a year now and we are up to 6 full time detailers now and we do not do any dealer or used car lot work.
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    National stupid customer day today?

    I got a call today from a kid who wanted his money back because the automatic wash did not get all the mud out of his wheel wells. I explained that it is not designed for heavily mudded trucks to come completly clean and that he should have used a SS bay first. He said the was not that muddy. I...
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    Dixmor ACW display

    The red led display I posted about is for pre goldline ACWs and replaces the display that was mounted on the controller that sits on the door of these older units. I think with all the demand they have for these units it would be logical for them to do something with the goldline display.
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    Dixmor ACW display

    I tried to take pictures of it but my camara for some reason only will show half of the letters as they scroll. To the naked eye all you see is crisp letters. I think the camara is too smart for its own good. Randy soldered the wire for the display board in before he sent it to me. All I had to...
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    Dixmor ACW display

    Randy sent me one of the new Dixmore ACW display test controllers today. It was a simple plug and play install. All I can say is WOW!!!!. It has larger letters that are much easier to read than any autocashier I have ever seen. I can read the scrolling letters from over 60 feet away. Makes the...
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    Question for lighting guru (MEP).

    I finally got the energy audit back on all my washes. They want to refit all of my existing 8 foot T12 lights with T8 ballast and bulbs at a fixture cost of $64 each. For my 175, 250 and 400 watt metal halide fixtures they are proposing replacing them with a simple 42 watt wall pak CFL. The CFL...
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    Paying with Credit Cards in the Bay

    I ran count down at 3 locations for 2 years. I recently brought another location on line for credit cards using count up. In the first month the new count up location did 3X as much CC business as the countdown locations. I have now switched all locations to count up.
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    Hamilton ACW validator conversion

    I hope to have a test unit installed by this week. I will get some pictures ASAP after the install.
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    Where can I find fuses for fragramatic vacuums

    I get my fuses at a national chain distributor called Johnstone supply. They carry a lot of heating and AC stuff and have always had the fuses I need.
  19. soapy

    Paint polishers

    At the ICA show I attended a detail seminar on new technology presented by Renny Doyle. He likes to use both the Flex and cyclo polishers. I agree on the ceramic clearcoats being used by MB and BMW. Scratches can be real hard to buff out of these paints. Renny has developed a new dry sand...
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    Ica show impressions

    I took my wife who runs my detail shop and makes most of the decisions there. She had the following observations about the show. Most of the detail booths she attended would not give her the time of day. SHe was interested in products like brushes, waxes and really talking about things in...
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