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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?
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I hate working on these Fragramatics vacuums. The vacuums have 6 special screws to unlock the top and everything is just so crammed in there. One of the vacuum motors was not working so I had to remove the motor to check the brushes. The brushes were fine but a fuse was blown. I will check the fuse first next time. Even though 2 out of the 3 motors worked, you can still tell there is a problem.
It took a little while (November 23rd, 2005 http://cwguy.com/?p=80) but Jim Coleman himself fixed my shampoo tank that was leaking (Disclaimer: I am not really sure if Jim actually fixed my vacuum). To my understanding, it was actually the distributors fault that it took over 2 years to fix, but the last 2-3 months of it was my fault. But, I got my vacuum fixed under warranty. YEA!
I believe the customer has to pay for the shipping of the vacuum but they were supposed to ship it on a Coleman truck when they did their drop off (which is only every couple months, but it would be free). I am very happy I got the vacuum back after I thought maybe they lost it.
The first picture shows where the shampoo is not suppose to come out of. One of the hoses came off the barb.
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I had a Fragramatics vacuum blow its fuse (FNM-30), which is a time delay. I know that the Coleman vacuums use a breaker (not sure what kind) and not a fuse. So my question would be: could I just swap them out? I do realize that the breaker will not fit in the fuse holder (I did have that shape discovery toy as a child).
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I purchased this 50 foot long vacuum hose from Erie Brush at the ICA show. I like the multi-colors and the inside wall is a lot smoother. It will be interesting to see how well it last.
By the way, do you want to see the worst web site in the car wash industry? Well check out Erie Brush’s site: http://www.eriebrush.com/ This web site makes me want to start web developing again and do pro bono work.
Topped off the fragrance containers today.
I removed the burnt out light that I need to replace. It was a Sylvania Metalarc M59 R M400/U. Whatever that is, I need a new one.
Greg let me know where the photocell was in the Coleman vacuum (first picture). Besides looking broken, the photocell is actually broken. So I either need to take Mep1’s advise and not worry about it being on all the time or just replace it.
So my circular fluorescent light on my Jim Coleman vacuum was burnt out and the ballast was broken. So what should I do? Well, what about installing 2 compact fluorescent lights? I thought it was a good idea. My only problem after I installed the lights was that the lights staying on all the time and when the vacuum is turned on the lights go off, any ideas?
