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Fragramatics Visual

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Flamingo

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I saw a post a long time ago on here about using mineral oil and food color to refill the display. I know water and oil does not mix/does anyone know how to color mineral oil?The food color I have is water base and only forms the cool little balls of color.
 
Flamingo said:
I saw a post a long time ago on here about using mineral oil and food color to refill the display. I know water and oil does not mix/does anyone know how to color mineral oil?The food color I have is water base and only forms the cool little balls of color.
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Went the better route. Got rid of the oil and bubblers and now use chasingrope lights in all my displays. Cheaper, simpler, less cold weather and other troubles than replaing air pumps every year and adding fluid and changing flourescent bulbs.
 
I converted mine over to the new LED display from Fragramatics. Looks great. Comes with the board, new tubes and new fluid. You can see it from a mile away.
 
I did mine a couple of weeks ago. It is a huge improvement over the old design. I don't think that the liquid is any different but the flashing lights are a definite attention getter.
 
New tubes???

captain cw said:
I converted mine over to the new LED display from Fragramatics. Looks great. Comes with the board, new tubes and new fluid. You can see it from a mile away.
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I bought five of those kits and didn't get any new tubes. I have held off on installing them because I have several that leak out the bottom and hadn't decided how I was going to address that issue.
 
I have actually bought bags of different colored marbles to drop in the tubes. I just can't seem to find the time to do one of them yet.
 
Flamingo said:
I saw a post a long time ago on here about using mineral oil and food color to refill the display. I know water and oil does not mix/does anyone know how to color mineral oil?The food color I have is water base and only forms the cool little balls of color.
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Here's a thought. Get some light weight motor oil for the yellow, transmission fluid for the red, and mix them for the other color.
 
ok,Thanks for all the Ideas and suggestions..I took a couple of bottles of mineral oil to my local ACe Hardware store.We mixed up some nice colors with a drop of their paint tint in each bottle.
 
My visuals had almost all leaked out and the lexan glass was in bad shape. I had decals with my logo printed and put on the old lexan. No more mess and now it advertises my washes!
 
I installed a kit on a combo unit. It was pretty easy. I wish I had mounted it slightly higher than instructed. My vac is on a high pedastal and it's hard to see thew lower LED while standing next to it. Regardless, it's an attention getter from the street.
 
The oil from the visual display is not the biggest concern in the town I live in. Someone is vandalizing all of the vacuums. Fortunately I only had one broken into and I had already installed two of round Buffo locks on the doors by drilling through the door and cabinet. It looked like he used a pipe wrench and twisted it out. Then he removed the lock cover and couldn't drill the drill proof lock and didn't get any money. I've had it repaired and now close that wash every night. All the other washes in town got hit real hard not just the Fragramatics vacs. Although the combo vacs seem to be the easiest ones to get into. I've got another wash in another town and when I put the combos in I built new islands and put a secure coin box below in the cement and have not a one problem in the eight years that I've had them. I am familiar with tokens just didn't think I wanted to go that route. Some people have bill acceptors in their vacs. I can't imagine that. Is this problem wide spread?
 
Wally said:
The oil from the visual display is not the biggest concern in the town I live in. Someone is vandalizing all of the vacuums. Fortunately I only had one broken into and I had already installed two of round Buffo locks on the doors by drilling through the door and cabinet. It looked like he used a pipe wrench and twisted it out. Then he removed the lock cover and couldn't drill the drill proof lock and didn't get any money. I've had it repaired and now close that wash every night. All the other washes in town got hit real hard not just the Fragramatics vacs. Although the combo vacs seem to be the easiest ones to get into. I've got another wash in another town and when I put the combos in I built new islands and put a secure coin box below in the cement and have not a one problem in the eight years that I've had them. I am familiar with tokens just didn't think I wanted to go that route. Some people have bill acceptors in their vacs. I can't imagine that. Is this problem wide spread?
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The round discus type locks can be twisted off with a pipe wrench if they can be easily accessed. This is made more difficult with a "Lock Guard" availabel thru various suppliers. It is a "U" Shaped chunk of metal that goes around the discus lock.

It is best if any lock is recessed into an area where the lock can't be accessed with a lot of leverage or basic cutter.
 
mayadreamin said:
My visuals had almost all leaked out and the lexan glass was in bad shape. I had decals with my logo printed and put on the old lexan. No more mess and now it advertises my washes!
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Now that is a great idea.

However, I already went to Walmart, bought some different colored sewing beads and filled each tube. No more mess and it looks good., about $4.00 total.
 
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