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I would never believe I would feel sorry for someone that filled up 2 garbage cans full of paint cans and made a huge mess in my bay.  But it happened to me.  

I pulled up to see a lady cleaning out the back of her truck.  I walk over and there is paint all over her and all over her truck.  She said she was done cleaning up her truck and she was going to clean up the bay now.  I told her not to worry about it because I though she would just make it worse.  She wanted to clean out the paint cans with the high pressure gun in the back of her truck and did not realize how high the pressure was so when she pulled the trigger paint went absoutely everywhere.

My pre-soak sprung a leak and it was an easy fix.  When I ran my low pressure runs last time I added extra at the end.  Now all I need to do is just cut off the break and put it back in the fitting.  (Seems like the majority of the breaks happen at the fitting.)

This is not cool!

Now is the time to test the group of fittings that connects to the right of the solenoid. This is really bad because you have to take off the whole back panel.

Well I took off the panel to remove the solenoid and I had to take a picture (second picture) what was behind the panel. (The solenoid was being held on by 2 screws.) So I took off the group of fitting and they look totally clogged with rust. The barbs are the same way. I believe the only way to fix this problem is to order a new part from Grainger.

When I pulled up to the car wash today I thought it was odd that there were no crows….. Then I saw the scarecrow and I understood why!

I added a 3/4″ check valve today.  Just so happens that I was going to order one today online but Mike, a distributor (Premier Carwash Systems) in our area, pulled up at my car wash.  So I just purchased the part from him…. really easy!

I drove by the Morgan Road Car Wash today.  Greg purchased it a couple days ago.  They have put in another automatic and gone up on there self-serve prices from $2.00 to $2.50!  So since December 10th, 2005 they have only gone up $.50….. inflation definately has not hit the self-serve market!

If you are interested, the wash has 2 Jim Coleman Water Wizards: 1 is the original while the other is a new 2.0 non-profiling.  It has 2 Hamilton entry units and also a Jim Coleman Space Saver pumping unit for the self-serve bays.

I needed some boards so I could build a skate board!  Now all I need is all the other pieces.  (Also the ability to ride a skate board).

Have I ever mentioned that I hate these pits?  They are so shallow!

Well, I guess this it just going to happen if you have an older Jim Coleman shampooer.  The shampoo solenoid valve is rusted and is not allowing liquid to pass through.

I believe I had the coin jam first……  then someone hit the meter box until the timer wire harness got unplugged.

I got my 2010 Monthly Special Calendar from Kleen-Rite Corporation and I was shocked!  I mean where are all the hot women Kleen-Rite!  I remember the 2008 Kleen-Rite calendar and every month was great!

Someone stole my garbage can!  Then customers filled the island up with trash.  It was great shoveling all the garbage out!

I replaced another Jim Coleman carpet cleaner brush today!  It was fun……… like normal!

I filled up one of my Jim Coleman shampooers today!  It was fun!  It was on one of the vacuums that I replaced the brush the other day.