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Hydrominder Problem – update

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I guess whenever I touch something, something has to break?  The body of the hydrominder just cracked off, after checking what tip was being used.  After I cracked the body I noticed a large flaw in the Mark VII Proline design.  If you look at the last picture their is one pvc pipe and no shut off valves.  So you have to shut all the water off to repair one hydrominder?  I would imagine that Marc VII has fixed this problem in their new version of the Proline?  No customers because of the rain, but as soon as I cut off the water, there was a customer! 

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Public restroom?

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This guy pulled up, stopped the car, started going to the restroom while shouting to a friend in another car then left.  The guy in the other car said it was because of the “chronic”?  Whatever that is?  By the time I figured out what was happening, he was gone.  I guess I need to install a new sign?

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Hydrominder problem

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This is the high pressure soap hydrominder:  The eductor was leaking or at least it looked like it.

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The brass elbow somehow got eaten away which made the eductor seem cracked.  So when I was installing a new brass fitting, I cracked the plastic valve body.  I want to have constant repaires at all times.  Oboviously you should not over tighten the fittings to the body!

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Foam brush solenoid problem

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The good news is I fixed the solenoid problem.  It was very easily to do with my finger.  The bad news is I would have to keep my finger there forever.  So I decided to figure out what the problem was.  Their was a short in the wire and I rigged it up until tomorrow.

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New solenoid bank install

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Well this old solenoid bank drank the last 10 gallons of tire cleaner that it will ever drink.  I really don’t like dumping good tire cleaner down the drain, so this was the last time for this thing.   This solenoid bank keeps sticking and I really don’t understand why.  It keeps moving from bay 1 and 2.  I would clean 1 then 2 would start, then 1 or 2 would drink all the tire cleaner overnight.  This happened three times and countless cleanings.  I think it is possessed?

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So I swapped it out with a solenoid bank that I purchased from Greg.  The solenoids are larger and when I installed them they didn’t work.  Note the red arrows:  this solenoid bank has metering.  Wow! this drove me crazy figuring this out.  But I should have figured it out at first, not after disassembling everything twice.

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Car wash supply purchase

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I need to start documenting my purchases better so I do not purchase the same crappy products all the time.  So….first the FedEx guy gets my stuff off the truck…

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The 2 powder chemicals that I purchased were:  1) JBS Hydro White Powdered Tire & Engine Cleaner from Kleen-Rite for $47.57 (JBBX5401).  2) JBS Frenzy Powdered Presoak from Kleen-Rite for $52.54 (JBBX5201).

I have already purchased this tire cleaner before and even though it says white it is yellow.  Also when you dilute it according to directions it is too weak.  So this is the cwguy tire cleaner mix.

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First I added 30 gallons of hot water.  Next I opened the garbage bag and scooped out some powder.

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I blended it all up and ran it for 30 minutes and pumped it out.  I think that I added the powder too fast because the last picture shows all that was left at the bottom.  It made a total of about 34 gallons.  I will let you know what it looks like when I use it.

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Making powder presoak

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This is JBS Frenzy Powdered Presoak from Kleen-Rite for $52.54 (JBBX5201).  This product looks just like the JBS tire cleaner.  It also looks the same when mixed up and it costs $5 more.  Now this might have been really stupid so check out what I did next.

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I have gotten complaints every time the tire cleaner it not yellow and the presoak is the same color as the tire cleaner.  So I added some red hyper concentrate tri-foam to turn the color anything but yellow.  So I got orange and the last picture is all that was left in the drum.  This time I gradually added the powder instead of dumping it in faster.

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Now I have around 46 gallons of ORANGE presoak.  That is a first?

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Hydrominder Problem – update

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Earl sent in a message about my previous hydrominder problem:

Earl Weiss says:  “I think the white float is sitting too low in the water. My guess is it has some water in it. Pull it out of the tank and look at it. You will be able to see if there is water in it. If there is you can unscrew the cap and empty the water, but if it has water in it it most likely has a leak and will happen again and needs to be replaced.”

He was exactly right about the float: the next day I was trying to fix the problem and noticed (top picture) that the float was full of tire cleaner.  I replaced the float and I think everything is fine now.  Thanks for the comment Earl and if you want you can check out the exciting video again so you can notice the problem now in retrospect.

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Self Cleaning Solenoid?

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When tire cleaner is just coming out of the high pressure gun it is bad news.  I was wondering what happened to all the tire cleaner in the equipment room?  The next 2 pictures are the solenoid and the piece of trash that caused all the problems.  It also came out all by itself.

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Hydrominder Problem

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This is an interesting problem where the pvc looks like it is not level and makes the hydrominder stick. I am not sure how this problem just started though. It was leaking into the presoak tank and on the floor. I also have an action packed video.

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UPDATE:  Solution http://cwguy.com/?p=2443