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  1. K

    Award Winning Car Wash Customers

    Hey at least he's doing it safely with a mask on. Which probably ends up on the ground like I find all over the place, along with pairs of underwear and corona beer caps.
  2. K

    Foamy Brush Plumbing

    Stumbled on a "Tom's Way" video on Kleen Rite site about plumbing a low pressure system. He's saying to tee the 1/4" poly tubing (air and product) together in the equipment room and run 1/2" Polybraid to the bay, with no foam generator needed. I've always ran 1/4" poly tube to bay and tee...
  3. K

    New Car Wash - Water and Traffic Counts

    If you can't do $100k on a wash that nice looking with 26k CPD and at 63 cents a minute ya'll in the wrong business
  4. K

    Fittings leaking

    As far as thread tape goes, it's absolutely the best.
  5. K

    Lease or Own Car Wash Property

    That is precisely why.
  6. K

    Advice needed: hp pump trips breaker

    Motor is likely to be "single phasing" due to a bad contact in the contactor. That's assuming the repair shop properly tested motor.
  7. K

    ?s about Chemicals

    On a 2 step (LO and Hi ph) touchless automatic, what is the optimum ph levels for each step? And which one should be applied 1st?
  8. K

    WAGO wire connectors

    As an Industrial Electronic Tech in a high tech, high speed manufacturing environment maintaining, designing, and modifying European manufacturing equipment for over 35 years, I can tell you that Wago products are quality products. Absolutely no doubt they handle any thing the car wash...
  9. K

    Strange things found at the car wash

    In the last month a bicycle, wheelchair, and a Barbie Escalade.
  10. K

    Laser wash G5

    I tried to order parts direct from Washworld within the last 8 months, they told me I had to go thru a distributor. Which is it? distributor or not?
  11. K

    What would you do?

    I would leave that alone. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. You have a customer base that prefers to manually wash their own vehicles.
  12. K

    Tips on painting the awning / fascia

    Clean with Bleach with some borax mixed in. Paint with Sherwin Williams DTM (direct to metal) paint.
  13. K

    Trash cans are gone

    I have a couple of people that dig through my trash looking for a treasure or something who knows what. They clean up around the cans when they are done and compact the cans as part of our agreement that I won't run them off or have them cited for trespassing. They actually do a better job...
  14. K

    Air Shammee Nozzle Issue

    As I'm looking to add dryers, Do you recommend the Air Shammee II or Air Logic system?
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    Air Bubbles in the Soap Supply Line

    For what it's worth, I recently purchased 12 new hydrominders that came with the blue foot valves already installed on the pick up tube. Found 2 that I thought was defected, but after futher investigation I discovered the leak was coming from the hose connection on the valve, caused by the...
  16. K

    Backlit Sign

    Looking to update a backlit menu sign for an IBA. It would show our logo and the 4 wash packages with prices. The sign would be imposed on a 6' X 3' piece of lexan that would slide into our pre-existing L.E.D. lit sign box. Anyone have experience with this? Would like some references for who...
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