I filled up one of my fragrance vacuums today, which is always fun. What I like best is when you get some of the fragrance on your hands.
Noble Avenue Car Wash, Florida
This is from my trip back from the ICA meeting in April. This was down the street from this wash.
Bay setup
Vacuum setup
Hamilton changer and vending
Vacuum problems today!
At one wash someone stole all my trash and forgot to close the door. At the second wash I replaced one of my motors which is always fun.
Coleman Vacuum problem
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.
Vacuum nozzle problem
I think that this is the worse vacuum nozzle I have had so far.
Albertville Express Wash
ICS entry unit as well as the window and cash register. All the entry / exit gates are Magnetic Automation Corp.
Pictures are from left to right 3rd picture is the main enterance and exit, the 5th and 6th picture show the entry units and the large turn to enter the tunnel.
Vacuum setup with the Vacutech Power Clean Super Separator.
Vacuum motors
I have way too many different vacuum motors. I snapped this apart trying to pull the spring out. The right picture shows what it is supposed to look like.
These are my other weird types I found today. The motor on the right has a spring you have to press down to insert the brushes. 4 out of my 4 motors were different today (the other was a lamb motor).
Long vac nozzle / small vac nozzle?
It seems that the long vac nozzles break way too easily. I purchased them at the ICA show. Seems that the small vac nozzles last a lot longer.
Vacuum brushes
I swapped out some vacuum brushes and everything started to work fine again.
Hunter’s Creek Auto Wash / aka Car Wash
My GPS said “Gatorland Carwash” at 14513 Gatorland Drive, Orlando, FL. but the name does not really matter.
First picture is the front view and the second picture it from the entry road next to a Flex-Serve.
Front view: I like the glass block and the road sign.
Vending: I like the “Suggestions” box and it is interesting that they replaced the Dilling & Harris Vend-Master product door. They replaced the plastic with metal.
Back view: First picture show painted arrows on the ground which is a good idea. I just doubt it would help.
Bay: Some interesting notes are the crappy foam brushes and the garbage can in every bay. I love the large timer conversion.
Automatic: PDQ Laser 4000 had an interesting purge setup in the automatic. Not really sure what or why it was purging though.
Vacuums: They has some weird vandalism problems? I actually had someone steal my gun off my Fragramatics fragrance vacuum before. They unscrewed the gun and took it.