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It only took me 5 months to order and get the replacement belt. The bill did not have a total but the sales person said it should cost around $40. Now I need to install the belt.
To order the belt just call 1-888-895-4549 and ask for the 007-0068 belt. It is the only belt they ship / sell so it is easy.
Kobalt (aka Lowes 99007 vlk1582609) 26 gallon air compressor manual: http://www.powermate.com/productmanuals.php
After over 3 years I finally went to the hardware store down the street from my car wash. It was really a great place to visit: it was like stepping back in time. Oh, and they have tape!
Still below freezing and there was kind of a trash problem at Wylam. Really nothing happening exciting today.
I had a coin jam today. Cool!
One of my meter box’s rotary switches quit turning today. Now I need to find an extra rotary switch somewhere, maybe Kleen-Rite.
I think that the anti-freeze won the contest against the water weep system for my foam brush. But, that is because my weep mizer was messed up and I needed to readjust it another degree. For the water weep system, only 2 out of 4 bays were weeping while the anti-freeze worked in all the bays. I also needed to salt the bays today. I was surprised with how many people actually washed their cars today when it was below freezing.
I hooked up my foam brush anti-freeze based chemical today. I will have to see which method works better; the water weep system or the anti-freeze system.
My hydrominder got stuck so I squeezed the metal piece that holds the float. I believe it was sticking in the cap.
My Weep Mizer was giving me the wrong temperature so I went to Lowes to purchase a thermometer. I really wanted to purchase an ir thermometer but my cheap / practical side made me purchase the $5 digital thermometer instead of the ir for $64.98.
My Weep Mizer says it was 43 degrees and the cheap thermometer said it was 38 degrees.
Greg told me that there was a screw on the censor to adjust the temperature on the Mizer. I decided to just adjust the start temperature by 5 degrees!
I hooked up my foam brush weep system today. The check valve at the far end is used as a plug because I did not have one with my today.
I just attached the foam brush weep to one of the pumps weep lines for now, but I will need to purchase some parts and mount it better later. The last picture shows the weep solenoid on the far left which is where I will be mounting the weep line.