Recent content by MarkAllen

Yes, I've seen the sight and talked to one of thier sales people but is the problem with the hopper an easy fix, something that I could do myself or am I better off just buying a new or reconditioned hopper?

I have a AC1005 American Changer with a Universal Hopper. The changer will occaisionally kick out more quarters than what it is suppose to. Also, at times the "Out of Service" light will come on and it will not work but nothing is wrong with it. It did this several months back but I just took...

I have a 4 bay self serve wash. I have a 5 gallon holding tank that supplies hot water to 4 Cat 310 pumps when in high pressure wash. The tank has two nipples on the bottom (one 1/2" and the other a 3/4"). Both are leading to a 1inch pvc pipe which the 4 pumps come off of with a 1/2" hose. Will...

Has anyone tried using hot water going to low pressure pumps? If so, did you use it on all low pressure washes (tire cleaner, foam brush, and presoak) and what kind of response did you get from the customers? Is it pretty much the industry standard to use hot water on all high pressure or just...

I hate to ask a dumb question but as I said before I am new to the business and have never "had the privaledge" yet, to take one of these pumps apart but what is a poppet? And I've heard the term "washout" used several times on this forum but I'm not really up on all of the car wash lingo. I...

I've got a Cat 310 pump and it is a pretty new pump (I believe about 1 1/2 years old) and a month ago the key came out from in between the pulley and the pump shaft. I don't know how many times it ran like that or for how long each time but I know the pulley was ruined because of it. Well I...

I have 4 small tanks that only hold about 3 gallons and 2 tanks that hold about 3 1/2 to 4 gallons. The 4 were used as cold water reservoirs and the other 2 were used to hold the hot water for all four bays. I don't know why it was setup to have cold water reservoirs (if I'm not mistaken most...

I'm aware of a lot of other places like Dultimeir. In fact there are others out there that are significantly cheaper than them. Windtrax, Kleen Rite, Kim Supply and Scotch Plaid just to name a few but I was wanting to know if there was somewhere to buy something that has been only slightly used...

No, just a tank 5 or 6 gallons each that can hold my wax, pre-soak soap, high pressure soap, foam brush soap, and/or tire cleaner. Right now, the way it is setup, the previous owner had cut a 14" PVC pipe that is 5 feet tall that has the end capped off used as the storage tanks for each...

I'm new to the forum, in fact very new to the car wash business. I bought a small 4 bay car wash in a very small town. Evidently the guy that built the car wash went the cheap way around on doing everything when he built the car wash. I need to know if there is anywhere I can buy a used holding...