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Thanks Randy! I'll definitely look into this for next year.

Is there a blowdown system that I can purchase to use the propylene glycol? How does this work? Yep I'm reusing my RO reject already.

That is outrageous, but at least you know it's consistent and based off of actual usage. Here my numbers are for potential usage. Luckily I'm still making money. :)

I first spoke with someone on the phone and then went to the office to speak with the front desk rep. They talked to some supervisor and told me that’s how it’s done. I think they only looked at that $480/mo charge and don’t understand that it’s an overcharge if used throughout the year. My...

My city water company uses the average of 3 winter months (Dec-Feb) water usage to calculate the sewer charges for the next 12 months. I live in the Denver metro area so during the winter I lose water to weep and usually the winter months are my busiest months. Using their formula, It causes my...

Yes prior to the wiring everything worked. Part of the issue with the re-wiring was that the one of the 24 V lines on the roof had a break somewhere (These wires are nearly 30 years old!), so I had to cut it and add a new wire. I made the mistake of leaving the old portion connected on one end...

Hi MEP, It looks like with the 40VA transformer I wired it incorrectly by connecting both the 208V (red) and 240v (orange) wires to the L1 and L3 of the contactor. That explains the explosion for that transformer. Since my voltage range was 211 V to 240 V, should I have connected to the black...

Hi all, I fished my existing wires for one self serve bay through a new conduit due to roof replacement and reconnected to the wires coming from the equipment room. I made a mistake in the reconnection and ended up shorting the transformer (100 VA). After fixing that connection, I thought the...

Those who are up, where are you located? I'm in CO and it's been a big downer year. Probably off 25% from Jan - July. June was a killer with so much rain or cloudy days. Down 40% compared to June of '08. It's slightly getting better the 2nd half of July, but then again next week has 7 days of...

Wow WarDaddy! I can't believe what bad luck you guys are experiencing and here in CO we are complaining about five straight weekends of rain/clouds/snow. This weekend's forecast will make it six straight. When I was a kid (back during the 80s) I remembered it had good snowfalls during the...

ToFarGone, I'm surprised the X-Stream only did 133 cars in 10 hrs when my slow WashWorld did 100 cars. I thought the advertising is approximately 2:40 mins for top wash. That should generate at least 20 cars per hour.

Do you have a distributor that can do tune-ups on the changers? Whenever I have the changer problems and have tried fixing it multiple times, but still failed I'll just let my distributor tune it up. It costs $60-75 but well worth the time and headache. They let me borrow one in the meantime...

That's right. Our lower packages do not have the dryer. I will do some more tests to rule out the dryer, but I remember I did it only once and that time I didn't see the spots. May be that one time I got lucky. I'll also look at the check valves of the wax cycle. Thanks.

I always knew the DEC-MAR was better, but I finally did the comparison last week and was shock that it's almost 50% for those 4 months. Surprisingly the last two Junes have been very good compared to other months from APR - NOV b/c it was consisently sunny and not too hot over here. That makes...

Shane & Reds: I pinpoint it to the wax cycle b/c my lower priced packages that do not include the wax cycle do not have this problem. The spots have an off-white color and are about .1 to .15", but then there are a lot so it's noticeable. You mainly see it on the front side window, but...

Soapy: I have tried diluting the wax/sealant using 1/2 gal plus 2 gals spot free and then used green color tip. I forgot what ratio that is. I even tried using the tip color that is the second to smallest amount on non-diluted wax/sealant. Still had spots. This doesn't work well since the water...

It seems like most areas are the same. Right now I'm contemplating to do another business (don't know what that is yet) that is not so weather driven to compensate the slow-down in the summer months or to do a major change to my car wash. The change is almost like putting all the eggs in one...

I have two wash packages. Both uses the wax/sealant right before the spot-free rinse. On one package I do have the triple foam before the wax/sealant, but has a rinse between the two options. The spots problem occurs in both wash packages. I have two other lower priced packages that do not...

I did check and it's fine. I noticed that when I used my SS bay w/ the wax I do not see the spots.

I have this annoying problem from my IBA's wax or clear-coat sealant leaving spots on the windows. Sometimes if I get lucky there are no spots. It's been happening for nearly 1 year now. What's confounding is that the spots happen only on one side of the car. Initially it's only on the...