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My Dad sold his Moody carwash to investors that are tearing the place down and I get around 90% of the equipment. My first project is the vending island removal. I’m excited!
I removed all the vending machines and I am going to try and remove the island tomorrow. If anyone has any great ideas let me know. There is only about a 1″ cap on top of a lot of sand.
William, my Dad, and I moved the old equipment to my house today. It was surprisingly not that bad. The truck is a 350 and my little car is next to it for scale. I believe that you can fit my car in the bed of the truck (or at least it looks like it). Thanks for helping me move the equipment William!
I technically hooked the last 2 bays up, so I have all 4 bays working off the Coleman equipment. The setup will not win any beauty contests. I did have a wire problem that was giving me a constant coin pulse to the timer. I had to swap some wires a long time ago because of a wire short, which cause me to have to retrace all the wires today. FUN. All this crap needs to be redone: we will see when that happens because it works now.
I installed the 3/8″ air line today. I officially switched 2 bays over to the new Coleman equipment and tomorrow the other 2. But I am going to have to extend the 11 wire bay wires, which I am not looking forward to.
I still do not know what the yellow wire does but I know it is not the motor starter, that is the red wire.
I could not figure out what the problem was today with my high pressure soap and wax and I knew it had to be a Coleman setup misunderstanding. So I called Greg and he answered my question over the phone! The problem I was having was I was getting pressurized water from the water line where I expected gravity feed. Greg explained to me the way the Coleman unit works, it uses cold water at city pressure for rinse and hot water or gravity feed for high pressure soap and wax. My problem was exactly what Greg told me over the phone and was a miswiring. Thanks Greg.
I installed a new float valve today and also fixed all my hydrominder problems today. Wired up my low pressure hoses and some other crap.
Installed a Jobe Topaz 1″ Float Valve JFV-1 Amazon sells a 3/4″ version.
I drove by an impartial place to register to vote today. Weird that Obama opened up a Bar BQ restaurant next to a voter registration booth. I also did not know that Obama was a dog lover, but maybe he should keep his pit bull on a leash?
I did a lot of wiring today: some 3 phase and a bay switch over.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,440821,00.html
My Sister sent me this article. The title says it all.
The Jim Coleman unit has a large holding tank to hold water for all the car wash bays. Today I noticed that there is a leak in one of the plastic fittings. Also, the hydrominder is extremely slow letting water flow through, but I will look at that problem tomorrow.
While filling up the tank I noticed their was a leak. The leak was coming from a check valve from the bottom of the holding tank so the water was low pressure.