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Miles left us Saturday morning at 5:30am. This is such a tragedy. He was a brilliant, funny man. He had the kindest heart with the sharpest tongue. Please, look after your health. We are not invincible. Forgive often and express kindness and love. Thank you for all the kind wishes. Hi, I'm...

Does anyone have any documentation for a 5H00510 Standard hopper? Parts breakdown would be great, but even a manual beyond basic operation would help.

I've been talking to a guy who wants to build a couple truck bays. He already has two, but they have regular 92" booms, so the hoses have to be so long they drag the ground most of the time and the trucks still have to pull forward/back at least once. Is there any sort of boom system out there...

She figured out a really good way to get the old ones off. Still had to use a grinder and wire wheel to remove the bulk, which is messy but is really fast, then she used a cheap dollar store version of Lemon Pledge and sprayed it down. She let it soak a good ten minutes, then used a 6-in-1...

This was one of my worst. Woman was in a bay on a busy day taking her time cleaning trash out of her car. At least she put it in a trash can. Then had the nerve to ask me for money to wash her car. She ended up asking another customer for the startup amount and just rinsed it. She wasn't...

From the CryptoPay site: Flashing Yellow: Out of Service Mode. Card reader will not accept a card swipe. All Self Service Bay and Vacuum card readers are shipped in this mode. Does this swiper need to be activated by them?

I need to completely replumb the water lines of a wash. I prefer "old school" copper and solder joints, but that obviously takes a lot of time and copper is insanely expensive now. I hate PVC, I've considered using it, but it's my last choice. For me it's between copper, which if I use that...

For the cost of a set of new bushings for a 7-bay Coleman SS I can buy a small machinist lathe and make new ones out of UHMW-PP that will last almost forever. Thoughts?

I have seriously considered buying a Cummins sorter/counter, but at around $2500 it's a hard thing to spring for. There's a distributor that will come by and clean/service the unit for a fee, probably $300 a year. I'm also considering a Ribao BCS-150 which is less than half the price, but a...

I installed a new SecureCoin CP990U acceptor (Kudos to Kleen-Rite for putting their label over the programming instructions and buttons), and it wouldn't accept quarters at all regardless of the quarter/dollar settings. I programmed in my token and it took the programming and accepted the...

Is there such a thing as a completely rust-proof standard air chuck? I've bought all brass ones thinking they wouldn't rust, but the valve spring and balls inside were steel and wouldn't separate after a couple years.

That's what a customer said. We were expecting a hard downpour Thursday night, but we got a lot of wind and a very brief rain. Almost every car is covered in dirt.

Never bring your wires in through the top of an electrical box in a car wash: The butt splices are a temporary repair until I can relocate the box where it can be accessed more easily, terminate the wires from the bays there, run new wires to the pump stands (They currently run through this...

I'd like to replace the motor starter with a VFD and have selectable speed control of the motor. I know almost nothing about VFDs, is this even possible? I know I can do this with a solenoid and two regulators, but I don't want to constantly run the motor and bypass 2 GPM except for 1% of the...

I've always used Smooth-Bor, but the last few batches haven't been any good. The biggest issue is the size not being consistent, either I can't get it into the vac or the tool is too tight or too loose. They aren't lasting years like they used to, only months now before it will break and...

A lot of you have probably never seen anything like this, but in the 70's and 80's many car washes used what was basically a well pump setup for low pressure delivery to the bays. It would have a pump, a bladder tank, a pressure switch to keep it pressurized, and there had to be a check valve...

One side of my changer kept shutting down with a 5, 3 flash (Unexpected hopper payout). Cleared it, tested, worked fine, next day same thing. I dropped the hopper down a couple times and it didn't shut down, so probably not the switch. After three days of this I pulled the hopper, and the arm...

I'm looking for a used Hamilton Goldline, preferably with a working dial-up modem.

I just bought a bunch of blue nylon Erie foam brush heads through Kleen-Rite. The first one I put on had the gasket come out from between the brush and the back plate. A couple weeks later I had two in two days where the head completely fell off because all the screws backed out. Luckily no...

Does anyone have experience with a high-leg or third leg protection? I work with two washes that have a lot of issues with incoming power, mostly dropping a leg. One is 208 Wye and one is 240 Delta. I want something I can use to kill the 24V on loss. The ability to add notification will be...