I.B. Washincars
Car Washer Emeritus
- Joined
- Aug 30, 2007
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- Location
- SW Indiana melon fields.
I just saw this on ebay. We use to have them at the wash my dad built back in 1973.
These pump were a mess, literally. As you can see, the pistons/plungers are exposed. They had grease fittings in the head and had to be greased with some kind of grease that you couldn't wipe off, no matter how hard you tried. I remember my dad having to go in there and "tighten the packings" occasionally. Luckily, they were gone before I got into the business...whew!
If you remember these, you probably remember their vending bottles as well. The bottles didn't have a removeable cap, but rather a plastic little tip that you were supposed to break off with a fingernail. Of course, they couldn't be closed back up. If you managed to get that little tip broken off it squirted some direction other than the intended one. They had a vendor especially designed for just those bottles which was always a mess, because usually one of the uppermost bottles was leaking down over all below.
Oh, how this takes me back
These pump were a mess, literally. As you can see, the pistons/plungers are exposed. They had grease fittings in the head and had to be greased with some kind of grease that you couldn't wipe off, no matter how hard you tried. I remember my dad having to go in there and "tighten the packings" occasionally. Luckily, they were gone before I got into the business...whew!
If you remember these, you probably remember their vending bottles as well. The bottles didn't have a removeable cap, but rather a plastic little tip that you were supposed to break off with a fingernail. Of course, they couldn't be closed back up. If you managed to get that little tip broken off it squirted some direction other than the intended one. They had a vendor especially designed for just those bottles which was always a mess, because usually one of the uppermost bottles was leaking down over all below.
Oh, how this takes me back
