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I currently use a mix of Cat 340, Cat 310, and Arimitsu 516 pumps. I recently had 2 arimitsu 516s wash out, which has me thinking about which pump to "standardize" on. In an effort to try to make my decision a little more objective, here's some of the data I looked at. Yep, ymmv, this is just...

Just curious - does the forum management have a plan for dealing with bots?

Replaced the seals on an arimitsu 516 today. The pump is about 4 years old, installed in one of my moderately-used bays. I'm in a rural area, so not a super busy wash, but yeah after 3.5-4 years I'm not surprised I needed a seal kit. But then again my first aimitsu 516 is 5 years old, in my...

I'm hoping somebody can explain something I observed today. I'm getting air in the line for one of my bays, concurrent with some pulsation and apparent reduced pressure felt at the bay/gun. (I say apparent because the gauges say pressure is ok.) Now, I mostly know what to do to fix "air in...

About 3-1/2 feet deep at the drainage swale in the middle of my lot, the flow was about 6 or 8' per second - slow enough that I'd cross it if I really wanted to, but fast enough that I'd take precautions.

Do any of you vend latex gloves? If so, have sales of gloves gone up much recently? For around 2 years I had them in a drop shelf right next to the bill changer as well as in my glass front vendor. Designed a full size sticker for the drop shelf and everything. Sales were terrible...

For my small market self serve: I'm beginning to design my sidwalk signs & ads for when we're allowed to re-open, looking for post-virus specific ideas. I'm assuming things will not just bounce back to business as usual, and want to make sure people get back into the habit of washing their...

How often do you guys replace the motors that turn the helix in your shurvend? I'm asking because in the past few weeks we've gotten a bunch of phone calls about vending issues, most say the coil didnt turn or didnt turn far enough. So Im thinking maybe I need to replace some of the motors...

I want to find the specific laws/codes that effect my business on a regular basis. Ideally I will find all the federal and PA codes, but I'll settle for anything you guys know to start with. My list so far -- Yes I realize there is some overlap and my list is incomplete: Theft of services...

At the Kleen-Rite expo, I stopped by the Ametek booth, and learned that they have a “new” vac motor, part# VAL2315. Apparently has twice the brush life, and the bearings are better protected against water - seems like a sensible improvement, so I’m trying one out, I installed it last week...

I cant think of anything more satisfying than having bragworthy children, which I do. :D I almost never do this, but I cant help sharing some good news - some of you might remember my boys, Ryan was the skinny red haired kid running around the trade show floor at a bunch of the ICA shows. Well...

I'm seriously considering getting rid of my trash cans, and I'm looking for feedback from operators who have done it. Specifically I'd like to know if you experienced a significant reduction in vac revenues, but happy to hear any comments about your results. Thanks.

I've been thinking about charging my customers for the credit card fees, I'm wondering a couple things: a) anybody currently doing this, and can share your experience? b) anybody know more about this than I do?? I did some googling, and apparently "its now OK to pass processing fees on to...

I had my first significant break in tuesday evening, here's what they had on the news: http://www.wfmz.com/news/police-make-quick-arrests-in-daylight-burglary-of-car-wash/34083036 Of course I was thrilled to get 90% of my stuff back within 24 hours, but more importantly the kutztown police...

I vend these "wow original shammy" towels, they sell ok: https://www.kleen-ritecorp.com/p-29770-the-original-shammy.aspx The last case I bought I noticed they are smaller and thinner, which I do not like. Does anybody else sell these, and where do you get them? As an aside, this trend of...

I dont get too many odd items in my coin acceptors, but this one surprised me: a plastic beer token. First of all who would waste beer like that, and secondly who in their right mind would think a plastic beer token would work at the car wash? I often think we dont share enough pic's here on...

Apparently I have issue(s) in my coin box(Es), I need some help. Any suggestions what else I might look at would be greatly appreciated. Over the last 2 years I've had a coinco vantage bill acceptor (bay5) out for repair 6 times. Symptoms varied - "send out for service", not accepting bills...

Does anybody use IDX snubbers or some other form of protection on your 24V electronics to protect against voltage spikes? Exactly where do you use them? I'm asking because I've had a few failures of electronics lately, and I'm checking into the possibility that I'm not adequately protected...

A couple weeks ago, one of the columns in my Shurvend was empty. So I refilled it. (duh.) 5 or 6 days later there was only 1 item left in that column, so I thought great! Need to refill it again! Then I realized... I had put the wrong product in, so I had the same product in the vendor twice...

My Etowah Valley timers double charge about 15% of my credit card customers, been doing it since I installed them 18 months ago but I was only recently able to prove it. I upgraded to the v3.10 chips 10 days ago, and it appears to be worse; since the upgrade 28% of credit customers appear to be...