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Which timer do you feel is the most durable at a reasonable price? I am only interested the 120 volt, accumulating timer, grace time is not needed, and it should not require any additional relays, transformers, etc.

This machine has a bad set of eyes on the contouring dryer. It's hard to justify the distributor wanting $500 for a simple transmitter and receiver eye, plus another 400-500 to install. These eyes look just about like the telco eyes ($35 - $50 each from dultmeier). These machines are well...

I've been helping a customer out with this automatic. He wants to be able to stop the on-board dryer from contouring the shape of the car. In other words, the dryer would stay up on the gantry, but still blow air over the car. I'm not familiar enough with the programming to know if there is a...

Be careful responding to this post. I believe there is possible litigation involved with this unit. It's too bad that Hydrospray of Ohio went out of business and left your machine out there with some design flaws. Making your distributor the scapegoat is not going to make your wash run any...

It must have been the front/home limit switch (x25), even though it functioned normally 99% of the time. I changed it a week ago and no more problems. They had used an aftermarket prox switch, (stainless housing with a light blue face). I'm sure it was less expensive, but like many prox...

ken the overhead nozzles are (3) 1508 the upper side are (3) 2505 the lower side are (3) 2506 you could switch the 2505 and 2506's if you wanted a little more water spray up higher on the car. the wheel wash are (10) 2505. There should be 2-3 nozzles on the floor for undercarriage. If...

Thanks for the input. We have had the tin can several times before and it will stop the unit from running. I originally thought treadle, but I held the treadle down with a bucket and had the car leave after the wash. About 5 min. later, the please exit light went away, the acw reset cycled...

Looking for some answers to a few questions. 1. I beleive we had a problem that caused a fatal shutdown (meaning that the water wizard turned on the acw reset output, causing the auto cashier to go to out of service). What machine errors will cause the ww to turn this output on and leave it...

I saw a neat little trick by an electrician. He packed a small oil-soaked rag or paper towel inside of the hole saw before he started cutting. It really kept the right amount of oil on the teeth. I would recommend slow drilling with a hole saw. A knockout is still the best way, unless it is...

nothing like KINNICK on a fall afternoon bashin the clones! Waxman, I tested the lazer again, it ran fine, nothing stood out as unusual. I noticed the front limit switch was an aftermarket brand of switch, so given the history of the arch turning into pass. side rear, replacing the front...

thanks pro, that was the first thing i had found. The j4 was full of moisture and i had to take a hair dryer to it and i removed the wires and put fresh dielectric grease on them. I was sure this would get rid of the ghost inputs. thanks to the forum members who have shared their knowledge...

ken, a suttner float valve works great, under $15. you need to only plumb a 1/2 inch line to it. Your tank above needs to have at least a 1 - 1 1/2 inch overflow line in case the tank gets full. you don't want it to flood your other tanks or equipment. I don't check tds of rinse water...

Thanks for the replies. This auto does have an ABB freq drive and it does seem to run fine with the freq drive noise. I am having some issues with this auto, though. I have had to replace several prox swithces in the last two weeks and had the main pipe come unscrewed from the swivel. When...

whenever the freq drive is running, whether it be moving the bridge, trolley, or spray arch rotating, we are getting several inputs that light up dimmly. These are inputs which should not be lighting up at that time. Sometimes the inputs are brighter, and sometimes they are very light. The...

It is common to have a quarter fall into the hopper run motors on the back of the hopper mounting plate. The quarter will jam between the little motor shaft and the frame. Look closely as the jammed quarter is sometimes hard to see.

I am looking into converting a self serve bay into another automatic. I called the local power company (municipally owned) to let them know that I would need to increase my service to 400 amp capacity up from the current 200 amp. They said no problem, but we need to put a recorder on your...

good question. I'm sure there are many different opinions here. I do not like to see the hp wax. If it goes on the car cloudy, I turn it back until it clears up. I can smell it, so I know it is still getting to the car. IMO, wax is the worst product as far as spotting a car. All the little...

I've found 5 trim pieces from ford 500's in the last year. Blows the thin roof line strips off.

My wash is in a grocery store parking lot. My competitor had his 1.00 off coupon printed on the back of that store's receipt. It said "$1.00 off any car wash". People bring them in to my wash all the time. Sometimes the receipt is cut off where the name of his wash is not on the receipt. I...

combination of trees have heard that a combination of several trees is believed to mask certain odors that come from certain people smoking certain substances. Maybe black ice and evergreen. Any info on combinations would be helpful at my location!