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  1. MEP001

    New to forum & looking to start a self service wash

    You should seriously reconsider buying an existing car wash. It's difficult even with stellar credit to get a loan to build a car wash even if you have 30% up front. Land costs and property taxes in states that have it would make it very hard to survive the first couple of years while you...
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    Adding a bay onto existing split face block.

    I've wondered how that would hold up. I can get it in white. What about it didn't work?
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    Cavitation Problem

    Just for clarity, cavitation is when the water supply is restricted and the water boils under vacuum in the pump. With what you've done you've eliminated everything except a crankcase issue. Remove the head again and make sure all the plungers/pistons are moving and there's no in and out play...
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    I'm part of the solution...

    Translates to "I feel a little weird and I think I pulled out donkey ears." At least we know what cells they used to cultivate the vaccine. Thanks for your contribution to medicine.
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    Looking for a simple alarm system

    You could be more helpful by saying "Some alarms use simple open/close circuits on their sensors while others use a proprietary communication, and I used X alarm with Y sensors that I had trouble making them work." Just like your claim of the alarm manufacturers, you unnecessarily complicate...
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    Looking for a simple alarm system

    Do you not see how you still ended up blaming your mistake on the "overly proprietary sensors?" If you buy an alarm that uses simple open/close circuits, you just have to get the right peripherals. This has nothing to do with a system's obsoletion.
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    Low Pressure irregularities between bays

    Before replacing the plungers, look at the tags on the solenoids. My guess, since they're numbered 5, 6, 7 on top, is those bays were added later and they may have used solenoids with a smaller orifice. The orifice size is listed on the coil tag.
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    SIGN - "Garbage Can for Paying Customers Only"

    I tell them that it's a city ordinance, that it's theft of service and a $400 fine, and it's their responsibility to know. It seems to stop them and shut them up at the same time. I've really had enough of the "I didn't know" BS, it should be common courtesy and common sense that we provide...
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    American Changer has multiple Issues

    There should be some sort of diagnostics. What's the model of the cashier? I'll see if I can find the manual and look at it.
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    Service Company Concerns

    Except his were more to sell parts than an actual tutorial.
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    American Changer has multiple Issues

    Do you have a manual? I know very little about the American Changer cashier as a whole.
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    Service Company Concerns

    I've thought about documenting literally everything I do, from changing a coin acceptor to completely rewiring a car wash, and compiling it into a book or a series of manuals. If I were to sit down and try to write down everything I know I'm sure I'd forget to include a ton of stuff. And all...
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    Looking for a simple alarm system

    More of a build-your-own system, I don't know if this one has the features you want but I know some of them did 30 years ago. You'll have to find the manual and see. https://www.zoro.com/napco-intrusion-system-keypads-5-78-w-lcd-gem-rp2ase2/i/G1593142/
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    American Changer has multiple Issues

    The blinking light indicates an issue with the validator itself. It may blink a code, which you can read by the list on the stacker. It will blink constant if the stacker is removed.
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    Service Company Concerns

    I saw that a lot when I worked for a distributor, still do now sometimes. I can cite both JE Adams and Fragramatics, they both have only one tech that really knows everything, the rest can sort of help if they can find the manual.
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    Service Company Concerns

    I'll bet it's more like 1-1,000. You get the occasional kid with a real interest in something like cars and will build or restore something nice, but the rest are more into ironic upgrades, riveting on garden bed trim for front air dams, etc.
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    American Changer has multiple Issues

    Try loosening the validator mounting hardware. Is the red LED on the Mars on steady?
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    This one customer was so clueless...

    Man studpit brush must have picked up some dirt off the ground man
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    Wanted Vac. doors

    http://www.s-t-a.us/stavend/
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    Towel bandits

    If you can close a circuit with what you have, you can buy a cheap alarm with a loud outdoor siren and trigger that
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