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I would be afraid that Congress would want to be in charge of quality control.

One thing that I see hurting the economy right now is that many banks are unwilling to loan money even if land is presented as collateral. Many car dealers who have their property paid off have gone to banks to get loans against the dealership property only to be turned away because of the auto...

I went to the national weather service site and looked up under climate data and found good data for the last year. I wish they had it back further but I could not find it. I broke it down using any fair day a + and any cloudy or PC day a minus. It is amazing how close each months revenues...

I have been surfing the internet lately trying to find a way to compare yearly weather data for a given area. I found one site called CityRating.com that has some of the information that I think will really help operators except that the data is only a summary of a city and not a yearly list...

Etowah Valley makes a nice foam brush setup with a cold weather change over setup. It is very reasonably priced also.

If you have a equipment room next to your automatic the best thing to do is run a shaft through the wall and mount a regular operator in the equipment room to open and close the door. You will get a little longer life out of the electronics of a NEMA 4 opener but you still have the chains that...

A good electrical motor shop should be able to rebuild your motor much cheaper than a new motor. Usually in a day or less.

I also had a terrible December mostly I guess due to weather. THis last weekend we had sunshine and high temps below 15 degrees. The washes were the busiest they have been in over 3 months. The secret to a carwash IMO is SUNSHINE. We normally have over 300 days of sunshine per year but I bet it...

You should be able to change a setting in the plc to prime the spot free rinse a little sooner or delay the timer to start gantry rolling a little later.

I had a guy call me this week and say he put $1.50 in the SS bay and nothing happened. It takes $2.50 to start the bay and I explained this to him but that I would refund his $1.50. He said he saw my attendant there but that he had gone into the equipment room. He wondered how to get a hold of...

10% methenol mixture is good to 25 degrees and 20% is good to 10 degrees. If your foam brush soap is almost pure methenol and you use no tip through a hydrominder you are good to around 10 degrees.

I had built 2 locations with the techmar snow melt controls. Eventually they both shorted out for some reason. WHen I went to replace them I found the cost to be over $300 and that was several years ago. I went to johnstone supply and purchased some digital A419 thermostats for around $50. I set...

I used to have Techmar thermostats but could not justify the high expense for them. I changed out to johnson control A 419s. I set the temp and let it turn the slab heat on and off when needed. You can set how many degrees you want to have for a differential. I think heating SS bays in the...

Jim, I am glad after all these years of prodding you for this size vendor it is now availible. I have to start saving my money now so I can buy a couple.

You might want to get some of the yearly surveys that the Car wash magazine do. They generally have it broken down by months like you want and by region. Generally winter months are rated the best with summer months being the slowest. I am the exact opposite due to the cold weather we have in...

Galvanized and cooper will not work together. Every other kinds of metal I have tried seem to work OK in the carwash environment. For presoak I like to use stainless or plastic hose barbs. Plastic tends to leak after a while around the threads if you use hot water through them.

I have some locations that have been using them for over 10 years. One thing I did was to take a 1/2 inch clear poly tube and put it in the concrete so that an open end is exposed in the equipment room. Then I slide the temp. sensor down the tube out into the concrete slab. This way if a sensor...

If I remember right there is a couple of set screws that can be tightened on the arm to stop all the slop. They are a square headed bolt located up on the arm.

If it is a 2001 OHD try cleaning the ultrasonics sensors that detect the front and rear of a vehicle mounted on the far outsides of the bridge. If it is a track model clean the photo eyes that detect front and rear of vehicle.

This is a different Soapy from the poster you know. I have had similar parts left at my washes during hunting season several times. Never a eart though.