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    Best combo vac/shampooer?

    Could be any of several things. As suggested please check to see each chosen selection sends juice to the proper solenoid. The bottom one could be stuck open and the others clogged or not energizing. If they each energize as they should you could pull the liquid supply hose off the supply side...
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    Best combo vac/shampooer?

    Years ago had one from a company called Effex. It had a gun with a button and sprayed it on like the spray on a fragrance machine. Made a mess with runoff and seemd to clog a lot. Still have it over on the side. May use for a tire inflator one day. MAybe the ones with the paad applicators...
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    Best combo vac/shampooer?

    1. Are fragrance bottles full? 2. Do hoses reach bottom of Fragrance container. 3. Turn unit on, Choose fragrance and hold finger over air on gun to force air backward. It should bubble out of the chosen fragrance container. If not the hose is messed up or the solenoid is not opening. If it...
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    Best combo vac/shampooer?

    Have 15 of the larger Coleman Combos. * Shampoo n vacs an 7 Fresh n Vacs. The last 2 new ones I got with Bill acceptors. Would always now order new with bill acceptors. On some of the Units I mounted either a tire aire inflator machine or on the Shampoo N Vac I mounted a seperate air freshenre...
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    Have you added any self serve bay selections?

    I think there is a safety factor as well.
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    Have you added any self serve bay selections?

    Mr. Hoffman added a compressed air line. I think he regulated it down to 50PSI with a basic trigger gun. People uise it to blow out interiro and exterior nooks and crannies.
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    Cloth removal tips or tricks

    Tried blasting with lots of HP and cleaner, Spraying WD 40, clamping a vice grips and hit vice grips with hammer heating core with torch to soften plastic, heating plastic directly, cut off flush and use 4 inch grinder with cutting wheel put back of blade against one side of slot and angle so it...
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    Foamy Brush air pressure

    I would say it's a function of several things. KR soap at 240/1, the solenoid valves have very small holes so you can only push so much product thru them, once it foams and you push it thru the 6 small holes in the Brush you can only push thru so much product. Probably need the 60 psi mostly...
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    Foamy Brush air pressure

    There are many differences in systems. I run a Flo Jet at 60 PSI feeds 4 bays, with the seperate air at 20 PSI, 3/8" Poly T'd above the bay. No needle valves, no foaming chamber. the 20 feet from above the bay to and thru the brush, 3/8 HP Hose allows or foaming, with a 6 hole Erie Brush.
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    Curly foaming brush hose for Mosmatic Z booms?

    I learnd about using HP hose for the FB. Lighter weight hose will allow kinks which stops the weep.
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    Vac it up system.

    FWIW, I think the Vac It up is a great concept. However, once I intalled bill acceptors the quarter usage dropped by 50% in a short period of time. It's probably even less now that i installed CC acceptors. Do you have bill acceptors and CC acceptors?
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    Thank you for agreeing with me. The Metro owner is sophisticated enough to ask the question like the operator who wants to know the minimum needed for the desired effect. Like the metro owner who seems to have a guy down the street who will do the same job for a lower price, why should he spend...
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    I figured that what you said in this last post is where you were going. However as initialy stated it seemed like you meant that an operator should accept suppliers reccomendations without question. He still wanted it to work. In this last post you suggest that suppliers are looking after your...
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    Once, many years ago when dinosaurs roamed and the earth was cooling the air injection into my soap foamers failed and a customer complained to me afterward "I didn't get any soap". I asked "Is the Car Clean?" His reply "What does that have to do with anything?" As I am thinking...
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    OK, color me silly. The questions seems to make perfect sense Use just what you need to get the desired effect, show and results whether it be Cleaning Solutions, polishing solutions or Hot Wax. Using more than just what you need is not only wasteful but can be counterproductive. For instance...
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    I reject your reality and substitute my own vis a vis cleaning effectiveness of filament vs. cloth. Either the bird poop is there or it's gone. Either more nooks and crannies are cleaned or the'yre not.
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    The market is their if it proves effective since most side wheels / waps seem to use "C" Channel hubs. Their is still filament out there. I get mine from Erie. The only ting lacking is the fastening system for C Channel. I have to look at the c Channel system for the foam on my raps and see how...
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    Same experience taking out wheel barrows full of chrome trim. Big difference today is litttle chrome moulding and the stuff is also glued on. I'm sure you can also recall the walkway displays with some petrified bristlke next to the cloth and I've seen a later one touting another material next...
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    Bring Back Bristle Brushes - Just a Thought

    I am a believer. If I am not mistaken, Sonny's still specs this for the lower detail mounted on the wheel brush option. Only recently did I remove all bristles at one place (busiest of the 4 locations) but this was more a function of needing to get rid of the top brushes. Flushing this...
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    Cloth removal tips or tricks

    Recently acquired some used equipment. As I have experienced beofre getting old cloth out of C Channel when it did not have external plastic without damaging the core is very difficult. Any tips or tricks to make it easier. Been blasting with HP and soap.
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