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    Pump Motor Noise

    No, it doesn't. Baldor 3 & 5 HP motors are not to be greased. It will only go into the motor windings and cause it to overheat and burn out. Listen again. Sounds like electrical hum. The easy way for him to check would be to listen to the motor spinning after shutting it off. Also, the...
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    Pump Motor Noise

    It could be a dropped leg. If a 3-phase motor loses power to one of the three inputs, it will not spin up under any load and will trip the breaker or the thermal overload, but it can run with no load. That sounds like an electrical hum and not a bad motor bearing. It's also possible the motor...
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    Razor arch foam

    You should be able to find the same material they use. It's a vinyl coated foam, I've seen it wrapping the roll bars in a Jeep.
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    So Ya think you want to be in the Car Wash business

    I don't need to imagine, I've seen MUCH worse than that would have been. One guy blew about 100 pounds of feed corn out of his bed, didn't even pull halfway through the bay, just blasted it all over the lot. Stopped one guy barely two seconds in trying to wash a trough made from a steel drum...
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    Dripping $500 presoak

    It'll probably cost more to have someone weld it than it'll cost to replace it with two plastic tanks, not to mention a lot less downtime.
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    Replace Jim Coleman keypad with Rotary Knob?

    Yes, wax and CCP are the same thing on Coleman Super Saver equipment. I've always set up washes with a second rinse before spot free instead of a second wax trying to fool people into wasting money on a different function that isn't different.
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    Cryptopay Installation on Meter Door

    Black wire goes to solid orange/24V hot along with one red/green wire, just like the Sensortron. Yellow goes to green/24V common. If you didn't pay the extra for the analytics, you don't need to hook up the gray wires. If you did or just want to connect it, one will combine with each...
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    Coleman Vacuum motor replacement?

    You may have to get them from Coleman for now.
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    How do I know if I need a water softener?

    Nope. TDS is total dissolved solids. Hardness is mainly calcium. My city water is 740 TDS at a hardness of 8. Soft water still has chlorine. It requires a separate activated charcoal filter before the RO system to remove it.
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    Dripping $500 presoak

    My tanks are made from these: https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=26661&catid=960 It uses an aluminum C channel to add rigidity for the Hydrominder with a bulkhead through the bottom. They're pretty expensive now (I think we paid about $30 apiece for them) but it would be a...
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    Replace Jim Coleman keypad with Rotary Knob?

    Your presoak uses a solenoid and a secondary regulator to drop the pressure down to 300 or so PSI. It needs to be connected at 22 with the other high pressure functions on the 2x stack, and the presoak wire connected to the 12 output on the switch. Both the presoak supply solenoid and the...
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    Value of CC, Air, & Dollar acceptor

    Neither of those questions can be answered with anything even remotely accurate, not even a ballpark figure.
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    Electroswitch rotary trouble

    I don't know why some suppliers price stuff like that. The LED segments for the big IDX timer are $5 apiece if you order ten from Mouser, but the exact same item from Fragramatics or IDX is $50.
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    Coleman Vacuum motor replacement?

    Not with a Coleman vacuum. Some of mine are IVS which has a stub under a shroud, and if you shave the threads off one side of a swivel splice it goes over the stub and stays with a large hose clamp. Maybe you could use the swivel splice with a short piece of hose in the vac and get it tight...
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    Wall cleaner and signs?

    Get a deck sprayer instead, which has Viton seals. It will last for years if you rinse it out after every use. Actually, try brushing it on. You'll use about half as much product as spraying.
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    Chemicals

    I did. The Facebook account is meaningless.
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    Chemicals

    javastasiadistributors@gm is a spambot.
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    How do I know if I need a water softener?

    Check the hardness, not the TDS.
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    Air conditioning: 13 SEER vs 16 SEER.

    As OurTown said, SEER is an energy efficiency rating. For simpler math, if you go from a 10 SEER rating to a 20 SEER rating, the system will use half the electricity to provide the same cooling. If it's a big house, the extra cost of the higher SEER rating might be worth it. I figure the A/C...
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    Replace Jim Coleman keypad with Rotary Knob?

    If you have them wired correctly and it shows "COIN" on the display, the coin signal circuit is fused closed. You should have one of the red/green wires from the coin acceptor to the orange/black wire from the timer (Coin pulse) and the other red/green combined with the black wire to the solid...
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