Recent content by tobaccofarmer

Ask yourself this question "Do I want a 7/day week 365 day a year part time job" ? Which revolves around my ability to be able to get 100% of the equipment up and running within a couple hours instead of a couple days or even weeks like the distributors. A business that revolves around the...

I would suggest you custom order from Check-all check valve. You can custom build any style check valve you want including body material,seal material etc etc etc. This was the only way I could ever have something that would last longer than the normal 1 month with the standard valves from...

Just wire 24- to x30 right at card then all your problems will disappear forever . Never have to mess with false impacts and all that crap it runs wide everytime and that's fine . Been running like this for 8 months never an issue

An express that does reasonably well could never have a line, thats the point of the express model? usually not much if at all wait time. Only way to really tell is count over a one hour period for several days, But what Im not understanding is why would you be concerned with adding anything...

As long as your chemicals are super hot, which mine are I havent noticed a thing with wash quality, If I did than I would have changed back right away! best you can do is try it out for yourself and make your own conclusions. While were on the subject has anyone figured out how to drill a water...

If you want to save chemical change the presoak pump to a high pressure cat like a 3 or 5 cp and install 0.57 injectors. If you want to save water change all nozzels from 05's and 04's to 04's and 03's. basically reducing water by 25 percent. there are a hundred more things to do, but I can't...

What Bank is only requiring 10% down? Also a single automatic, and I dont care what kind it is, dont care friction or touchfree is never going to work at a million plus dollar total project cost. As a previous post mentioned you can only wash 10-12 cars an hour tops which limits the max...

Do any of you guys use air instead of water to weep? I find air works better once solenoid opens air blows through and in a few seconds everything in empty plus you save on water. Just wondering

According to an article I read the other day, this place is one of the highest volume express tunnels in Texas which would put it over 30,000 cars/month according to local reputable distributors. And seeing is believing that's for sure! This place is absolutely gangbusters.... but my question...

kwwash, how has the I5 been for you up till now? What is the realistic cars per hour you could count on with this unit? Thanks

check the arch and trolley gearboxes. The arch especially because the bearing on top is too high for the oil to bath it so that top bearing goes out and I have seen the exact same motor timeout issue, where it is supposed to complete a motion and didnt due to gearbox and then creates a motor...

This was never intended to be a debate between the two, just a cost per car comparison. Im also seeing water usage has to be also a major difference since allot of these machines only require city water pressure or may have a small starite instead of 35 GPM high pressure pump, which obviously...

Wasnt asking opinions on touch free vs friction simply trying to figure out what it costs per car friction vs touch free. I agree cleaning touchfree simply just doesnt happen at allot of sites, however that is not my problem nor do I want this thread to be about cleaning touch free vs friction...

Wanting to create a spreadsheet for friction machine and would like feedback from operators who have a solid history with friction. What is your cost per car running and how does it compare to touchfree? If you could break it down with electricity, chemicals, and water, that would help...

Bill got it updated now! sorry for that I didnt realize my email was incorrect on the forum!