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Since I noticed that the posted link to the hearing got broken ... here is the corrected one that should work. http://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=312621

continued from last post about Thursday's hearing ... Hopefully, as many as possible of you agree with me that the FRB has a bias towards everything becoming all credit cards. Gee, I wonder why. Remember that the people in the FRB & close proximity to the FRB who have the most influence are...

Fellow coin operators who want the dollar coins to be properly available, Something told me to get up early this morning about 5:30 AM & listen to the verbal exchange on Thursday's Congressional hearing. Be prepared to allow almost 3 hours to thoroughly listen to the hearing's discussion...

killing the golden goose column http://thebsreport.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/columnist-of-the-day-thomas-sowell-killing-the-goose/ The below outlet bakery store about 5 blocks from our car wash made this factual column hit home. We personally knew some of the laid off workers & bought all our...

Earl, With our adventures with lots of different coin mechs ... I will try to explain what I would try to do to isolate the problem. The wire that switches the timer should show on the schematic if it switches to ground or is actually positive voltage. At that point I would try to come up an...

Big Leo, I know that it has happened to me a bunch of times going through the grocery supermarket store checkout .... where the checkout clerk uses a plastic bag covering the magnetic strip & then slides with the brand new thin plastic between the reader & the strip. I suppose if the attendant...

continued from previous post ... With our dog wash from the very beginning we have tried to set the tone with the free disinfectant & mop left out etc for at least some customer volunteer cleanup. I am not sure what percentage actually do it but I do know that some of the customers go to great...

Soapy, It seems like laundromat operators with in house card systems like yours gain some accountability for customer behavior. Since they take cash in their VTMs I am not sure how they enforce the cleanup ... unless the customer registers their name, address etc. to protect against a lost...

Randy, Where do you buy "oil eating Microbes" & what is their ballpark cost? Your approach seems to be the cleanest ... since it seems like the "oil sock" probably still needs to be disposed of once it has done its job. mike

MikeV & others, As long as the union factor for Twinkies came up ... another reality check should be to look at the following: http://www.cagw.org/assets/cagw-compensation-report-web-copy.pdf It is a study that relates to data about the current reality of public vs private employees. It...

Pat, Just to give you a heads up ... on some of the models you can plug an ethernet cable into it & on its menu you can search & bring up whatever YouTube. Our Sony 60" in our laundromat has that capability. mike

What about healthy market tension? Mark, I am a firm believer in having healthy tension when something needs to be corrected. Some of the other posters who I believe glamorize the credit card acceptance for our smaller transaction businesses a bit too much imply that most laundromats accept...

2Biz, I used a very similar older version of CyberPower on our laundry internet kiosk for many years & had very good results. In fact, since its 2 12v lead acid batteries finally went bad, I am ordering 2 new HR9-12replacement batteries for $45.44 with shipping from Amazon. It is a 1250 AVR...

Buzzie, I see a potential weakness in those old style thermostats & that is the inability to set the differential range more precisely. mike

2Biz, You just gave me an idea that should seriously be considered considering that our 2 Standard ChangeMakers each have a fairly sophisticated power supply that can develop problems that in turn causes little unexplained quirks. We have an APC UPS for our PLC- Ethernet Touchscreen dogwash...

Carbe, The fact that the other regulator affected how it worked makes me think that you should consider the possibility that you are using inferior regulators. i have distant memories of a bunch of regulators that had non stainless steel seats in them that caused us pressure problems. We...

Mep, I wonder at what point too much city water pressure could actually create a problem for Cat 310 seals or whatever. It seems like car washes have significant differences of city water psi. On ours ... just before our small gravity tanks the city water pressure usually shows about 55 PSI...

Sparkey, We have paper tokens for our Coiinco Vantage & they are by far NOT as durable as coins. The other big factor is: it does not matter if the coins get wet ... they still function just as good dry or wet! mike

Here the forgotten :o link: http://www.planetlaundry.com/news/2012/credit-card-swipe-fee-settlement-still-unacceptable mike

Fellow self service car wash coin operators, I just happened very recently ... to come across this based on truth article in the free section of the "Business Management" section of the Coin Laundry Association Website. It was written by the staff of their Planet Laundry Trade Journal. I have...