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    Blue lenze 20hp VFD drives and axiom thermal printers

    I have several blue lenze 20hp VFD drives out of pdq g5 pump stations available. I also have several axiom thermal printers out of access paystations. These are the older style mounted inside the machine not on the door. I do have 1 of the newer door mounted style as well. Make me an offer...
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    Pdq access bill validators mei sc series

    Several whole units, and new/rebuilt heads. Make me an offer mei sc series
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    G5 parts gearbox/venturis’s/rollers

    New trolley gearbox (I think that’s what it is), rollers and bearings, and dryer screens and venturis. Make me an offer
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    Family friend possibly kidnapped in tenn.!

    This girl is the daughter of family friends of the people I work for. Her and her family had been staying with my bosses family for several weeks in mass. recently. This girl travelled to tenn. 2 days ago For a seminar of some kind and she has gone missing. The police believe she may have been...
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    Nashville

    This morning at the convention they had a pitch 60 education session at 10:30 titled raising revenue. It was sponsored by Mark Seven equipment. I went thinking I could learn some thing and it ended up being an extremely embarrassing and awkward situation for the owners and operators of Mark...
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    PDQ access wash card magnetic strips failing

    We have a car wash across from a volvo dealership who uses our services several times weekly. They have a wals loyalty card (wash card) and can go months with no problems. However fairly recently, their cards have started failing, and seem to be failing randomly. Sometimes they last 6+ months...
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    pulsatron output hose rupture

    We use pulsatron pumps in a belanger setup (pumps, manifold, etc, all belanger O.E.M.) and all of a sudden i have one pump that is rupturing he output hose. Its somehow letting too much pressure into it and starts as a bubble then bursts. Its happened 3 times in 2 weeks. Does anyone have any...
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    Another “incident”

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    Door handles/locks that stand up to overspray.

    We have several doors inside of our wash tunnels that constantly have overspray on them and as a result the locks on the door handles eventually freeze up. Does anyone else have this problem? and if so what have you done to solve it?
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    Pit/sand trap cleaning

    Due to a disagreement with the company that pumps our tunnel pit and automatic sand traps last year i have to find a new route to getting this job done. Im curious what everyone else does with this material? If you remove it yourself where do you dump it? And if you have someone else do it who...
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    Shoes that stand up to car washes??

    Does anyone else have issues with their shoes wearing out quick from working in a corrosive environment like the car washes?? Mine seem to last about 4/6 months before the glue holding the soles on fails and the wash chemicals even start to eat away the leather material. Does anyone else deal...
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    kleen rite self serve bay simoniz hot wax systems

    so kleen rite is now selling self serve bay set ups for hot wax. i am wondering how smart it is to add that product to the self serve bays currently. it is an expensive product and without a second timer you couldnt charge more for it, and if it is available in self serve whats the draw to go...
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    Unattended tunnel incident

    I have mentioned before that we run an unattended tunnel. Actually it is attended from 9-5 daily but we are open 24 hrs. Normally we run with minimal problems, the occasional conveyor jam and drunks being the worst of them. However sunday we collided with an elderly woman.....literally. Here...
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    Clothing/uniforms and jackets

    Does anyone have any ideas on good winter jackets/hooded coats for the car wash environment? We have always provided hooded sweatshirts, t-shirts, hats, and lightweight spring jackets. But i have a few long time employees i would like to get good winter coats for this year. It has to be...
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    Pdq just bought belanger

    On the login home screens for the g-5 units pdq is announcing, as of 18 hours ago, that their parent company dover has bought belanger inc. belanger now becomes part of “opw vehicle wash solutions” a dover company....
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    On wall air shammee lightbulb burnout

    I have three In bay, on the wall, air shammy units in myself self serve bays, and one unit in particular constantly burns out the lightbulbs that light up the dome. I cannot figure out the problem and it is only this one unit. I’ve tried LED bulbs and fluorescent Twyst bulbs. Sometimes the bulb...
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    black friday deals?

    anyone know of anything good out there? I got an email from apexcctv saying they were offering 30% off cameras and whole systems, that's not bad. I know kleenrite is offering free shipping and other deals. anything else industry related?
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    our older ceiling mirror rehab project results

    we have an older mirror that has kind of frosted itself from overspray for the last 12 years. it also had a bad spot right where you needed to use it to get on the conveyor. i decided to give it a second life by painting the frame in one of our branding colors of bright yellow and then add some...
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    PDQ stainless check valves arent all stainless

    I have PDQ g5 units and they have stainless steel check valves (3/8"m o-ring x 3/8" m-jic) that are located on the input side of the soap heaters. in some g5 models they are on a small manifold block just before the heaters. I have noticed lately that I have been replacing these things a little...
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    New twist on old pdq side blaster towers

    A local wash (not a competitor to me) had the old gatling guns from pdq that didnt work anymore. They considered adding pdq's side blaster towers (i have these at my wash) but because of the cost of them, instead they decided to design their own. They ended up using square stainless pipe and had...
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