Today, I received another dead dog next to my dumpster. This time you could see the ears and blood was coming out. Real nice. It was sad.
Replace pvc and mount on wall: completed wax
Had all the pieces I needed today. So I mounted the pvc to the tank. Also, I folded and tie wrapped the ends of the hose so I could do each bay one at a time.
Pretty blue wax. It might be a little to strong.
I installed all the hoses and everything actually worked the first time. Also, install the screen on the correct hole and plugged the old chemical line.
The last thing I did today was mount the soap line and all the pvc hoses. Tomorrow, I will need to mount the hoses to the solenoids and attach the pvc to the tank.
Replace pvc and mount on wall
Well, the plan is to mount the pvc that gravity feeds the chemical and water to the wall. Today, I started the project with constructing the wax and soap lines.
This consisted of: 1) 8 x 19 1/2" long 3/4" pvc lines, 2) 2 x 5" long 3/4" pvc lines, 3) 10 x 3/4" x 3/4" x 1/2" elbows 1/2" threaded, 4) 10 x 3/8" x 1/2" nylon barbs, 5) 10 x 3/8" x 1/4" nylon barbs, 6) 6 x 3/4" medal clamps, 7) 4 x 3/4" elbows, 8 ) 7 x 3/8" I.D. clear vinyl tubing, 9) misc. pieces of pvc to connect to the tank, 10) 2 x 3/4" pvc caps, 11) 2 x 1/2" male x 3/4" slip end piece
Needle valve problem
No wax in the bay. Usually means one thing. Broken needle valve again.
New equipment idea – Hydrominder problem
One little problem. The lid for the tank does not fix on the tank the hydrominder is mounted to high. I had to add two elbows to drop the height. Now, I think I am done with the tank conversion.
Google satellite pictures
Hueytown
Wylam
Mep1, had a cool idea to check out you car wash on Google. I actually have someone at my Hueytown wash. I am not sure I owned them when the pictures were taken though.
New equipment idea – Hydrominder problem
I stole a plastic hydrominder valve off of my Coleman equipment in the basement. Then I was piecing together the hydrominder. The eductor was just shooting out a very fine stream. So I had to remove a water flow reducer.
Then I could not get the float assembly to work. So I just replaced the float hanger.
Then everything worked fine. I have now complete the tank conversion and pump install. I think.
New equipment idea – mounted and tested pumps
I mounted and tested all the pumps today (Aro and Sandpiper pumps). Connected all the hoses to the holding tanks. Everything worked great.
Also, I cut down a hydrominder bracket to fit in the holding tank. I will need to purchase another valve kit for this hydrominder.
I have almost completed my goal for the holding tank.
Tested one sandpiper pump
Today, I tested out one of my old sandpiper pumps to see if it would work. (It is a OEM41, TT3PP) Which I believe means that is has teflon seals. Which will be good for harsh chemicals.
New equipment idea – adding a shelf
I added a shelf today. It is for mounting the pumps and then I will put the solenoids over this.