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Pat you said you had one MA-800. Is it doing the same as the X-20s? I've had good luck with the MA-800 and was wondering if the problem is isolated to the X-20.

Most of the time when I have a switch fail it is because of the shaft rusting and it won't turn. I've probably had break before make issues before but I didn't remember it at the time of the writing the thread.

Yesterday I changed out a double stack that had been in a few years. It came from KR and it was a make before break. Some how it had changed to break before make. How could this happen?

Thanks Bill, that was great!

Mac, I got one that had two good heads when I took it out. The reason I pulled it, It has a cracked case and was leaking oil. Need a bargin?

I agree Mac, sometimes you just feel challenged. One of the things you didn't cover in your reasons to build your own is to save some money. I saved quite a bit. I already had two six bay washes with Livingston equipment so I knew I liked the set up and I copied it and changed to 530 pumps. I...

On the thread "Gravity feed to city pressure". Softsuds was talking about building his own ss equiptment. I posted some pictures of the equipment I built a few years ago.

Softsuds, I've posted some pictures of one of my washes. I built the building and the equipment 26 years ago. I've converted it to hot water for soap (street pressure) and suction fed for wax and rinse. My gas bills dropped drastically...

Softsuds, in a day or two I will post some pictures of my hybrid set up. Hot water (street pressure) for soap, suction fed for rinse and wax. You could include hot water wax if you wanted to. It's cheap and simple to build.

With the motors on the pumps,air compressor,inbay automatic,dryers on the automatic,vacuum motors. It seems that would be the largest usage of electricity and the lights would a small percentage of the electric bill. Am I missing something? I agree with those looking for ways to cut back on the...

I agree on the Fragramatics. That was a pretty dumb design. They know the top has to come off the motor to replace the brushes so what do they do, fasten all that crap right on top of them.

LuckyDog, when it's cold enough to close for a couple of days or more I blow out the HP lines and purge the brushes,TC and PS with windshield washer fluid. When your set up for it, it goes pretty fast. My heat strips in the trough quit working. They have a set of contacts that turn them off and...

Tiger, is this acceptor in the bay or an electronic vendor? I had this problem in a vendor and it turned out to be the electronics board had to be reset and not the acceptor.

That's pretty cool. I used to have two them. They were simple and easy to work on. I've still got some spare parts. A computer and a couple of new still in the box gear reducers made by Boston Gear.

What about freezing conditions. Will that have any effect on your project?

A few years ago I was buying it in 55 gal drums and the distributor would pump it into my 5 gallon container when he got to my place. He used a small plastic hand pump and it went pretty fast. I wouldn't want to use an electric pump because of getting blown to hell and back. The grading...

The quick disconnects are on page 460 in the KR catalogue, cost about $6 per bay and then it's just a few minutes of your time to blow the lines out. I've had half of the bays closed at two washes this week. The nights have been around 20 and the highs in the 30's during the day. I'm in the...

Ditto to Randy. I've been using him for twelve years. Great service.

My washes have quick disconnects where the hose to the bay leaves the pump stand. When conditions call for it, I remove the trigger gun from half of the bays and disconnect the lines to the bay and blow them out, purge the foamy brush with windshield washer fluid, put a cone in the bay, lay the...

Lag, I also replaced one in the JO cabinet recently. I had purchased it a few years ago anticipating having to replace it someday as it constantly runs. The receipt was in the box where I had gotten it from Gringer. Around $10. The one in the speed controller is smaller and is a three wire...