I had a leaky foam brush today. I took off the solenoid and cleaned it out and it stopped the leaking.
Air leak
One of my wire clamps decided to quit today and I had to replace it.
Big Air compressor problem!
When I opened the equipment room door today the air compressor motor was running but there was no air pressure. The air compressor belt broke, which was the first time a belt broke on me. The funny thing was I could not find the belt, only some little pieces.
$6,192.00 water bill!
The Birmingham Water Works messed up on my bill and about 15,000 others. But it was kind of shocking when you open the mail and the bill is $6,192 instead of around $100. The billing date was 05-19-1920 and the due date was 06-02-1920. This event made the news and the official said “it was a computer problem”. Really? I thought they were hand written.
Mark VII makes the most inaccessible self serve unit ever?
I know I am always complaining about my Mark 7 self serve equipment, but it is only when I need to try and fix something. The first picture shows the solenoid and needle valve that brings the wax to the high pressure water. I needed to remove the needle valve, which sounds easy. You just have to take the solenoid all apart and everything is so cramped, it is just terrible. The second picture shows; on the left the high pressure soap solenoid valve and on the right the wax solenoid valve. The high pressure soap it under the motor and is even harder to get to then the wax. I hope that Mark 7 has changed some of this layout. But I guess the previous owner could have did this?
Fixed an air compressor today
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I fixed my air compressor at Wylam today. Then I dropped another air compressor on my foot while swapping the spares out.
How to spot Rowe counterfeit parts?
One of the reps in the Rowe International booth, at the ICA Meeting, told me this tip. Not really sure if it is true, but I guess I need to find a new service tech. The belts on the underside of the BA50 bill acceptor should be green. If the belts are black that means that the belts are not Rowe belts. It sounds good because I have some with black and some with green.
Out of its misery?
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Well it finally happened. Someone put my Jim Coleman CT-2000 meter box timer out of its misery. I also figured out today the CT-2000 timer can be swapped out with the Jim Coleman 1034R.
GMC FALCUITY – A Wylam / Birmingham group
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Someone threw GMC Falcuity’s cd (demo?) on the ground at the car wash today. I will listen to anything that is not scratched up, so I was suprised because they were really good for a local group. They had very good studio work on their songs. You can check out their songs at: http://www.myspace.com/gmcfalcuity
My goal for my blog is complete!
Look crop circles in Birmingham, Alabama
I made it on a post at Crop Circle Connector or cropcircleconnector.com (to check out the post click HERE)! This was my goal…. I wanted to get in with the ufo earthfiles.com people. I really don’t even own car washes. Well, I hope that I can help out “windsong the researcher” with another picture in the future. For more information on ufos check out my other pictures:
First picture, of course, is the drone / flying fish picture (someone also emailed me to say it “might be a bird”. The second picture really is a ufo. Seriously.