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If it's new, I would be talking to your distributor and Hamilton.

If your rinse water is street pressure, it's most likely that solenoid valve. Hopefully you have a shut off valve before the solenoid. Shut it and if the water stops weeping you need to replace the plunger and valve seat. If when you shut off the rinse, it keeps weeping, go down the line, soap...

I have a 16 channel QSee 1080p system that works great. No problems in the touch free or even when people spray the SS directly on the cameras. A friend of mine has a 2k Lorex camera system but says mine has better resolution and zoom than his. Unfortunately, QSee has gone out of business in...

That clear hose protector helps keep the foam brush hose from kinking and breaking. Once it breaks, as you noticed, the hose will follow very shortly. IMHO, trying to buy more time for a $15 hose is counterproductive. You will spend 30 minutes or an hour to save a couple $ and risk upsetting...

I of course can't speak for everyone, but where I live, all municipal water is safe for drinking. It seems many people (including my wife) think that if water doesn't come out of a plastic bottle it's not good to drink. I even have a seven stage RO system at home that feeds my refrigerators and...

I don't have either, but here is a beer distributor just up the road from my house that has two water dispensers. There are ALWAYS people filling water jugs, even when I drive by late at night.

I have some customers that pull into a ss bay and cover their car with presoak or foam brush suds, then use the auto. Even though this actually cuts the effectiveness of the auto, as long as they are spending $ and happy. I don't really care.

Do you run 1/4" from your pumps the whole way to the gun? Or just the last 12 or so feet? If it's just the last few feet you're only talking about a couple of ounces of hose capacity.

Hey all, I have always used 3/8 hoses. What is the advantage of 1/4" ?

For me the Cat 310's have been pretty reliable. They don't just fail without warning unless they are run without water. If I start to hear pulsation, I replace the seals, and am good to go for another couple years. A few years back, a local water main broke and caused three of my pumps to fail...

You need to get the Mars retrofit kit for the RNS changer, not just a validator. It will include a mars stacker. You should then be in business. Mars Validator Conversion Kit, 120 Volt| Hamilton | 60-2101A (kleen-ritecorp.com)

Interesting article on express wash demand in Pa. ‘It’s exploded’: Car wash companies descend on central Pa. to ‘get a piece of the pie’ (msn.com)

I have several lifts rented all over the country at any given time for my day job. I can get a 65' boom for less than $300 a day, not including delivery. I guess I get a lot better rates than a onetime user. Sorry if I mislead anyone about the lift cost. But if you plan ahead and do all your...

Those "corn cob" lamps usually don't last too long. They can't dissipate the heat in an enclosed shoe box fixture. Thats why the warranty says five years if used 3 hours per day, who uses them only 3 hours a day? that's what, 5500 hours? A new LED fixture should last 50,000 hours. Also be sure...

If you are still using High Pressure Sodium or metal halide bulbs, you should replace them all at the same time. Then you only need to rent a lift once every couple years. Changing them one at a time isn't saving you any money. Of even better, change all the fixtures to LED and you should be...

Looks like you are doing the upgrades correctly! If you have brass fittings that are crumbling, somethings up. Must have had some super corrosive water going through them for a long time, brass is pretty tough. PVC is pretty much immune to most chemicals, but you won't find solenoid valves...

Sorry about all the junk in the way. I built mine many years ago. The 24v to 443 solenoids are fed from each wash bay, they also start the pump. I have 5 self serve and one IBA. I have a 5hp booster pump and supply the spot free at 150psi. When I am busy and three of the bays and the auto are on...

I have been dealing with them for over 20 years with no issues. If something is wrong, they have always fixed it no questions asked. They have been emailing invoices and statements for several years. They don't put prices or invoices with the packing slips, because you don't need or want...

Hard to tell from the pics, but it looks like you have a bunch of work to do. I see rust on fittings that should be brass or something that doesn't rust (brass, stainless or PVC). If those fittings are rusty on the outside, they are most likely worse on the inside. Get them out of there. That...

My low pressure functions also use electric pumps. The originals were flow jets. For the ones used most often, foam brush and tire cleaner, I was lucky to get more than two years from them. I would often have intermittent issues like you have been seeing. I tried using Shurflow and haven't...