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If you get "Professional Carwashing & Detailing" mag February issue page 8 regarding credit card charge at a self serve car wash in Salt Lake City, Utah! An important read for those with in-bay credit card machines!

I think Randy is right. If you have 2 auto bays and 3 coin bays your air compressor is as important to you as your equipment is. If it were mine I would spend the bucks for a GOOD commercial air compressor which will cost more than that one. Just to take care of the foam brush and presoak we...

I called yesterday to reorder more 85W CFL's and they're back ordered to the end of February. I also ordered 12 105 CFL's and I will play with them but they certainly won't fit in our bay fixtures, but will try them in a few misc fixtures that I have. Bummer I'm going to need at least 100 of...

Air is drawn in thru a 1-way check valve in the head of each cylinder. That would be the first thing to check. If that check valve is bad then one cylinder might be pulling in air and the bad one is pulling it in and pushing it out so it would be useless (like a 2 cylinder motor hitting on 1...

Well, the one you have probably was set at the factory. How old is it. If it's taking that long to get it too 100#'s of pressure it might need valves (actually an overhaul kit). What is the name of the compressor? How old is it, what HP is it? Is it the compressor that's making the noise...

Earl I have a 7-bay car wash with 2 dual changers in front and 1 changer in back by the vendors for a total of 5 changers at that location. Kind of an overkill but when business was booming they were busy. 3 locations have a dual in front and a single changer in the vending island. My last one...

Yes the timer is what normally controls the countdown horn. You may have a loose wire, or the horn could be bad (not likely, but certainly possible) Not sure what timer you have.

You're right about signage. A guy tried to sue me in small claims court to repaint his junker black pickup saying our foam brushes scratched his truck. My response was that the signage sez: check brush before using and spray with high pressure for any dirt. The judge asked me if I had that...

The above photos show you how we secure everything that we have in our washes. You can imagine what it is to "empty out" but we've gotten pretty efficient knowing our keys for the locations. We also have mini cameras in all of our changers and some of the vendors. as I've said, we live in a...

Another vendor island at the car wash that we added the 85W CFL's to: In 2007 2 guys stole the whole vendor island @ 4a.m. It had to sound like a train wreck. We used 2x2x1/4 tubing for the uprights and they cut thru that and the electrical that made sparks. They then drove a pickup on the...

Picture 1 shows 1 side of our vendor island at this location. Picture 2 our Combo Vacs and they came with 3 cam locks. This is how we secured them. Below the bottom bar is the coin drawer which has a lock from the inside. The shield around that outside portion is 3/16 Stainless & tig welded...

This is how we secure our Coin box: Picture 1 shows the head of the SS Ralock bar is buried in 3/16 Stainless. Pic 2 shows the shroud around the Locking device. Key is inserted from below and screwed out. They have tried to get into the box but never made it. There is also a WB lock hidden...

I just got my WCA newsletter and they are going to a 2-day show only in San Diego. I didn't read it all because there seemed to be more advertising than substance and very little about self-serve.

Since 1992 everything we have ever purchased that has to do with coins, tokens or dollars we double up on with a security cage around everything with various locking devices. Yes they can get into them, but it will take them time. This week I will shoot some photos and show you what we have...

You know Randy, we did use 1 screw in one of the bases and tilted it up, but I've had more time to think about the install and I'm going to try something else. There is a mound dead center of the fixture that holds the reflector in with a screw and I'm going to cut that out and that would make...

I PM'd you. If you did not get it let me know! :confused:

My son bought 3 of my locations a few years back and. 2 were short tunnel exteriors with additional coin bays! He installed credit cards and bill acceptors and he tells me that the credit cards run about 14% of total in the bays but the bill acceptors are big time. His locations and mine also...

MEP do you have a photo of the before and after pics of your scottsdale's? Did you buy the bulb from "1000 lights" or did you get them locally? In the last 6 months we put up pole lights for the yard at a couple of locations. Our reasoning was because we had dark areas at some of our...

Absolutely a no brainer! What a difference they make. That's why I would like to go to the 105's. Thanks for the photo shot!:)