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    Need timer for Air Machine

    Sorry, I thought I had it right. The diagram makes it look like the "LOAD" is what's switched from 3.
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    GPM in self serve

    Water consumption, boiler inspections, backflow preventer inspections, fire extinguisher inspections, fireman access key box checks, the fire marshal can even have a car towed from private property if it's left in a fire lane.
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    Best Salt Brand for Water Softener

    Just one of the three kits is $250, the whole unit is $550. I'd rather just replace it, especially since neither of its ball valves nor the main valve next to it shut off completely.. In fact now that I think about it, it'd be cheaper to buy a new one and put all the parts in the old one and...
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    Best Salt Brand for Water Softener

    I'll have to do the math to be sure, but I might have to use the 10 pound salt setting. My water/sewer bill is as much as $1200/month. It's going to be much worse this month, my RPZ valve is gushing water down the drain and I can't replace it myself. Plumbers are backed up for three months.
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    Kip Manifold Refurb

    I always end up with the manifolds vertical with the screws facing each other without enough room. Your setup makes all the difference in the world. FWIW I know an operator who uses flow meters, but he uses just one per stack. I haven't tried it to confirm, but he says it doesn't restrict...
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    American Changer hopper capacity

    I believe it's 2800 quarters. That's each hopper of a AC2001.
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    Kip Manifold Refurb

    I absolutely hate metering blocks. I know you don't usually have to get to them more than once to set them, but even that is such a pain, not to mention just getting tubing fittings in them. And I suspect that an aggressive chemical is going to eat away the brass block under the metering...
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    Ideal equipment room length and width.

    I want to "like" each of those lines separately.
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    extra time issue

    Car wash wiring is the hardest thing to understand. I've been doing this for 39 years now, including as a service tech for customers. Most people don't care about how it works, they just want to know what color wire joins to what other color wire, so since the principles don't apply to that...
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    Foam Brush test replacement

    I did the same, no matter how tight I got the adaptor into the head I could unscrew it by hand. The only thing I was satisfied with was that the foam came through it really well.
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    IDX MX-8

    I hope your work looks better than this: That exposed blue spade to the right is 120V live. Whoever did that used 22 gauge multiconductor wire, 4 strands for 120V hot to the pump, 4 for common and 4 for ground to a Procon pump. The MX8 is dangling from a piece of coat hanger poked through a...
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    Kip Manifold Refurb

    The coils go bad, but yes, the all stainless ones are much better aside from freeze damage. It will push the hex nut at the base of the stem right off the threads.
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    Kip Manifold Refurb

    I understand how the solenoids work, but it looks to me the only leakage is past the outer o-ring to atmosphere since there's staining on the block outside the cartridge. The inner o-ring seating area looks clean and IMO shouldn't have been leaking past to outlet. This came off my trifoam...
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    Best Salt Brand for Water Softener

    Is 8 lbs per CuFt the most efficient now? How many grains capacity per CuFt does that yield? I was taught 6 lbs per CuFt was best efficiency .
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    Best Pit Cleaner

    It's been over two years, he probably sold it.
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    Foam Brush test replacement

    I did. The brush works fine and seems really gentle, but after about two months the bristles were destroyed. A regular nylon brush lasts over a year before it looks worn at all. This is not the original post, but they're discussed here...
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    Kip Manifold Refurb

    I'd bet there was a defect that allowed the flow which caused the larger washout. Did you happen to measure the area of normal flow to see if it had eroded from the chemical? I like that the manifold can be milled, but since the average person doesn't have access to a milling machine, the same...
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    Need timer for Air Machine

    Does the one you have specify 120V only?
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    Hours replace vac shammee motors

    https://www.grainger.com/product/3AE11?ef_id=Cj0KCQiAv6yCBhCLARIsABqJTjYYIor-m330mJC4TcVflOsm7HbhiX06vBoIYiJKQhd5eD3KFpcaOlcaAlHsEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!2966!3!264922886802!!!g!439460816581!&gucid=N:N:PS:Paid:GGL:CSM-2293:99F1R6:20501231&gclid=Cj0KCQiAv6yCBhCLARIsABqJTjYYIor-m330mJC4TcVflOsm7Hbhi...
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    Need timer for Air Machine

    It is, which is why I don't use or sell those timers. 1 = Common (White wires) 2 = Load out 3 = Hot (Black wires) 4 = Mechanical coin switch (NO) 5 = Mechanical coin switch (COM) There should be a black wire with a wire nut coming out near terminal 1, just leave it capped.
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