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i would start by checking the water softner/water hardness. hard water will cause the brushes to act like this all at the same time. It will also make your high pressure soap look weaker.

once the validator accepts a bill, it is inhibited from accepting another bill until the rowe can refill the dump bucket. If you have a hopper that is jammed or has a quarter stuck in one of the hopper motors, then it takes about 30 sec for the rowe to refill the dump bucket. You should notice...

i just looked it up, it was a smc swivel. dultmeier part sm2400-34. I don't use these anymore. The guy got two estimates, and they were close enough that I paid him the one that he wanted. IMO, who cares if the guy actually went and got it fixed.

Exact same thing happened to us. We have a location, mainly unattended, in a poorer part of town, and it just happened to be a new Dodge pickup, 4 weeks old. One of the few nicer-type vehicles that we see here. My wash partner was there when it happened, so we know it was legit. We tried a...

click on the washgear ad on the forum. It will take you to washgear's web site. There is a distributor right in your area (polk city) that has installed a lot of washgear equipment.

I have serviced them myself in the past, but it seems like they still jam sometimes. Plus, the screw heads are stripped out on the coin wheel, so I can't get it out without destroying the little bracket. Time to let the pros at xcel service it.

Randy, I'm very satisfied with Fonic wash from JBS. I use it in my own washes and I sell it to other washes. It shows well at high dilutions, rinses freely, is priced fairly, and JBS's people have always been accomodating. I used to use the concentrated detergent (because of the price...

I agree with every post here. Randy, the Rowes are worth keeping with a mars conv. kit. I was ready to junk two of them until I put a mars in. Now I'm fighting a Hamilton dual changer, XE validators rejections, hopper jams. I have two of Etohwah's mars kits on the way, and will be buying a...

ken, the water bills are public record, anyone can go to the water dept and request them. you should be able to figure what this wash does without records. Compare to your self serve bays in Vinton. In a smaller town, I would bet that one bay avgs. 1000/ mo. and the second bays avgs. 750/mo...

I've been fighting the same issues for the last couple of months. both hoppers want to jam. found a quarter here and there that was dinged up, but removing them never really fixed the issue. Sometimes the jam was at the top where the coins leave the hopper, and sometimes the jam was at the...

as for the blower motors, place the fan face down on a pallet, motor is up. lift pallet up to the underside of the beam, attach the mounting bolts, and you should be able to rotate the fan up with one hand. works great if you have round mounting beam. customer really like to have a...

I've got 8 or 9 Ginsan meter box faceplates with the touchpad selections. They are only 8 postition TC, pre, soap, rinse, wax, FB, spotfree, TF, plus a stop position. The faceplates are setup for gs31 diplays and do not have a validator cut-out. They are for sale.

Does anyone turn off their water ball valve and de-energize the weep solenoid during the non-weeping months (only 5 months here)? Usually the issues I find with weep solenoids is that they don't like being energized all summer long. I prefer dema... the buzzing sound is music to my ears. I...

A few notes about electric door operators.... I prefer to use Telco eyes for the door safety. I did have one door with both a safety edge and a set of telco eyes. Every now and then, the curly cable for safety edge would get in front of the eyes and cause the door to go back up. Be sure to...

Mac, I picked up an orphan Wesumat owner about 3 years ago. I never touched the blue box until a few weeks ago. We were having problems with the amount of pressure the top brush was applying. It was not lifting up properly at the tailgate of pickups and actually denting them in. In the...

what Jim said. A quarter can fall down into the motor assembly and jam up the little motor shaft. You have to remove the hoppers, then remove the hopper mounting plate. Look carefully at the motors. Your changer is set to take an equal number of quarters from each hopper to refill the dump...

I have a customer who keeps getting a power failure message on their display screen. It is the older style display screen (the one that is 3" x 5" or maybe even bigger). When the power failure message happens, there is a buzzing or humming sound coming from the back side of the number...

I'm sure you have read the previous posts about the Wesumat. I have been servicing one for about 4 years. The main issues are parts and service. Service is an issue because distributors come and go, and there are not that many whom are familiar with the Wesumat, at least not that I have...

I wouldn't be surprised if the meter box is not really grounded. Then any short in the 24 hot or timed hot could energize the meter box frame and not blow any fuses. If there are multiple connections for the 24 hot or timed hot in the meter box, disconnet them and then reconnect one at a time...

ken, the system you have was designed by the old Hydrospray company. Most all of their installs had a pit reclaim weep system for autos and another pit reclaim weep system for self serves. The system is designed to switch to city water weep if the reclaim weep pump loses pressure due to a...