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This is from my trip back from the ICA meeting in April.
Front venting area: Dilling & Harris Max-Vend-Master with bill acceptor and an American AC2225 changer
Coleman vacuums
Bay setup
Water Wizard setup and American entry unit install
My Coleman vacuum had a wire harness problem. It got disconnected somehow. By this harness being disconnected none of the buttons work on the front.
We rented a Penske 24 foot truck, blue dual axel trailer, and fork lift today to move the Water Wizard.
William just put the gantry on the trailer and strapped it down with 4 2″ tie downs, which we purchased from Lowes.
The pumping station went into the back of the truck along with the rails, entry gate, etc.
It was a long and bumpy road and my back is going to hurt tomorrow. “Air Ride”… I say back breaker.
William moved the gantry off the trailer without any problem!
Thanks again William and my Dad for your help today.
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.
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.
Who would guess that if you leave a pumping unit unused (for 2 1/2 years) a solenoid might get clogged up. Actually, I only had one clogged solenoid which had a clump of dried up chemical clogging the spring.
Someone called me and said he lost $0.75 in the vacuum. Then, after I asked which vacuum, he said he lost $2.00 (this always seems to happen when you are nice). When I get to the vacuum it looks like the last person used a screwdriver and tried to fix the jam. Do you call the customer back and ask him why he screwed up the sensortron coin acceptor? Or do you just call and act like nothing happened? Or do you just not call back?
The first picture shows where the shampoo is not suppose to come out of. One of the hoses came off the barb.
I replaced all the barbs with Parker 1/8″ x 1/8″ push lock fittings. (I purchased from Grainger like MEP1 told me to. Thanks) But I am having a weird problem I can not figure out.
2/3 fragrances work, the one that does not work really should work though. This is what I tried.
1) Checked the wire from the timer to the solenoid with a voltmeter. Works
2) Button works and makes a sound when pushed, the air also keeps running when the button is pushed.
3) When I rewire (hot wire) frag 2 to frag 3 (broken) the solenoid will work fine.
4) When I rewire (hot wire) frag 3 (broken) to frag 2 the solenoid will not work.
5) Swapped the timer with another fragrance vacuum. Still does not work.
6) Ground seems to be all connected fine to the solenoid. Checked with voltmeter.
7) Rewire from the timer wire (wire harness) to the solenoid and still did not work.
The only things I did not check:
1) Voltage
2) Rewiring the wire on the wire harness to the solenoid.
