Recent content by Wash Grunt

Right, the grates over the pits. we have four self serve bays and a touch free automatic bay. Unfortunately customers use the two bays with the worse floor heat. We close the bays when ice build up gets bad, throw ice melt on it to loosen the ice, chop the ice and shovel it out, open the bays...

Wondering what others do to clear drain grates in self serve bays from ice, frozen chunks of slush. Our in floor heat is struggling despite numerous service calls on our old boiler system. We have two bays that do not thaw properly, and frozen slush and ice build up and cover the grain grates...

So would it be best to install it at the boom, then add the swivel and hose? And just retain a swivel at the gun? I had not thought about installing them but watched a dumbass on video spray off his flatbed trailer, and instead of walking around his trailer to put the gun back, he just threw it...

I may be restarting an older post, but I am looking for advice on breakaway fittings for the hoses in our self serve bays. Although we have not had any breakages, with the exception of occasional gun damage, I am seeing an increase in the abuse of our bay equipment. Usually later at night...

We have Dixmor LED 7 timers on our Doyle vacuums. The red plastic body is so faded that the LED is almost unreadable. There is no cleaning it to make it better. Does Dixmor make a replacement body for the timers. They all work, so trying to avoid buying new timers.

May have figured it out. The Sensotron was used to replace an IDX 850 that was not working. The 850 had a deflector plate near the coin ejection slot. I did not use that on the Sensotron, and it appeared the coins were backing up on the ledge of entrance to the coin vault. Replaced the deflector...

Just installed a new Sensortron coin acceptor in a self serve bay. After installing it, it took 12 quarters with no issue. Today I found it jammed with quarters. After clearing it I checked it and it is sporadic. Some are accepted but not registering, some drop straight through. I tried to...

One of our car washes in a small rural town keeps getting the walls in the self serve bays struck by people exiting the bays with trailers. It has happened twice in the last couple years, The last incident was a contractor with a skid steer on a trailer. Tore part of the wall down and cracked...

We have an American Changer AC2221 with an MEI VN2702 U5 validator. The changer is out of service showing code 38879 Validator Jammed on the screen. I checked the validator and it is not jammed. I cleaned everything put it back together but it did no good. When I turned the power on the...

Our automatic bay uses pneumatic cylinders to open/close the doors. Our exit door developed a loud squealing when opening. Inspection of the door revealed it is coming from one of the cylinders. Door functions ok, but I have the automatic shut down until we can get it repaired. I know very...

Sorry I am a bit confused. Looking at the swivel you recommend, couldn't I attached the swivel to the gun and the other end directly to the hose. What is a t-gun , FXF and FXM swivel? I am a retired guy working at the car wash for something to do. Trying to learn, the owner was the repair...

No. Only swivel is at the boom. We have a two foot piece of 4" PVC upright attached to the drain that the end of the spray gun goes in at storage. Hooks on the wall for the hose, that of course no one uses. So when the gun is on the holder pointed down, there is always a bend in the hose. That...

Does anyone use hose protectors on their HP hoses? We seem to be going through a lot of hoses that all fail in the same place. About 6 inches from the hose spray gun connection. Would a swivel union help? we have 1/4" hoses with 3/8" fittings. The owner passed away recently and he ordered all...

Up here in Michigan we have about a foot of snow and the last four days sub zero temps with windchills down to -20, We are running the Gisan Weepmizer and it is holding up with no freezing problems, Unfortunately our drain pits are frozen. We have been shut down because ice melt will not work in...

I did the same. I think the substance may be water soluable, as there is nothing floating in the pit. They were using the spray gun to spray water into the top of the tank. I can spray the stains off the floor with direct pressure. We are checking to see if they used a credit card in the bay...