MMI Enterprises
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What? ..all these fine visitors and no comment to keep the application to a minimal one coat followed by a backbrushing? I haven't used the stuff hardly much either but that I do know off past postings..
psst... I know how to get a shine going if that is what yer after beyond having the right color and durability of the wtw..
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Along same lines as everyone else is saying... The bunched up condition of the rag with all that air in there allowing the reaction internally is like making a heat sinc situation. A container full of stain whether it the can it came in or a solid board has hardly any air internally to work off of to make reaction. A container holding such soaked things as rags or tarps, say like in a box, still has tons of air involved yet plenty of heat holding ability that will bring it to temp.
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Yea but we know yer not serious Don. You would have it that a place you apparently like to visit and participate in fall back into archaic ways of baseless justice that offends folks rights? You don't really want this thread locked...well maybe you do so you can drag TGS through the mud abit.
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If no one else responds by later tonight, I will lock it. I want people to have a chance to dispute me. If I lock it, it will only be to keep people from digging it up and posting on it in three years, thinking it is a current thread.Can't say I ever support locking threads down. Might as well just delete it if something said can't ever be discussed, questioned, or debated.
I want people to have a chance to dispute me.No offense BUT, for sake of my point I'll say that that is the silliest most self centered thing I heard all day Scott. This thread isn't about you and your post or your authoritarian giving of time for someone to dispute it. Since when should such have time limit? Since when are other posters involved here disregarded on how much time they would wish to give to their disputers?
Just leave and forget about your intrusion into passing say. I don't see B&R talking about lockdowns! How selfish of you!
Hows that Holmes for a dispute? :)
I would be glad to continue if it means prevention of another fiasco about rights of members.. Umm er, hey PTstate..ya gettin this BS?
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That was a long post Scott..not much waste involved neither. I give it a big thumbs up and a 5 star.. :)
ps- now hush up..yer wasting space..haha
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kinda been hidden away eh? Ron always digs back up the good stuff. He like a modern day grave robber/Indiana Jones :)
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Run a search Florin.. same exact topic was discussed very recently.
ps- well I thought there was a specifc thread but can't find. here is another : http://www.thegrimescene.com/forums/wood-cleaning-restoration-decks-fences-etc/12995-done-day.html
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ya know Mike may be really onto a better quik retail solution than the Safe or Low Tox offerings. It specifically mentions on it not for radiator use as if it may not have all the extra inhibitors, etc.. Although the one I seen at Kragen is prediluted it is also only $4 compared to like $14 for Safe.
Mike, Are you doing that RV at a 10% level or are you pumping it full of caustics for downstreaming.. Think I may have a problem with my latest Safe batch with too much prop glycol to hydrox ;(
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Is almost a thing of experimentation and luck BUT that said I can still attest to fact that old timers used to mix stuff together and use them that way for some pretty good results. I've seen long term results like 10 years by mixing linseed and thompsons but that is not what your talking about in placing one over the other.
Far as layering things, irony has it that while mixing up a batch of downstream strength stripper today I noticed that my stir stick was not coming clean of Armstrong coated over with thinned lacquer. Actually neither the section with lacquer or a section with just Armstrong was coming off. Normally other stuff like Cabot or anything else mentioned on these forums come right off. Hope I mixed her up right..
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For bio to work just like diesel..trick I hear is to offer some amount of money to the food place in order that they change oil out sooner. This makes it more suitable for use in that it still has energy left in it. Guy I spoke with that does it regularly does a quik onsight test batch to make sure it suitable. Forget what 3rd chem is utilized besides methanol and hydrox (methoxide) just now, but its use is related to ph testing which turns color red if all is in order. Other thing he stressed was having to wash the stuff down as final step.
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Money back based on damage might be valid but when people are cheap as these customers obviousley were I can only have so much sympathy. Not only that, but do we really have solid idea what was discussed or what their deal was? Buyers remorse is sure to always put down the prior guy if expectations are out of line or another contractor comes in and tries to call it that the $200 deck deal was all inclusive or some such. They were ignorant enough to have bought a $200 deck wash or strip..so be it. Maybe they pressured the company into doing the work at subpar price with no perticular expectations or outcomes. Do we really know if whether it was explained to them by the other guy that going with deeper cleaning would demand restaining. Maybe they chose not to spend money eh? What kind of stain was on the deck anyways?. You feel it could have been cleaned of all grime, mold, etc, without putting yourself or customer at risk of a restain?
I must say I am somewhat ammused on confronting the situation as such. I've been in similar situations at times and it almost leaves ya no choice but to comment on others work when yer standing on a junky job result. I try to just say "did ya get what ya paid for?" . Don't get me wrong though, I have on occasion went the route of calling a spade a spade when insulted or wronged. Nothing like walking in on a job you were to do and either someone else has done it or is right there doing it that very moment. That is just rude act by idiot customer.
In posting here I guess I simply want to push the idea that hilighting ones own abilities in a optimistic way is a winner compared to focusing on others inabilities.
The former leaves the customer with an answer to their questions of who will fix this problem when they screw up and buy cheaply once again. Eventually you will earn their business that way. See anybody can put down a job result, only a pro can offer the real solution by branding their name into customers frontal lobes.
Let this post be an example that yes issues can and should be discussed or debated but don't leave it at that....In other words, always end with it being about you.. :)
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Can be had at some Sherwins, at least out here anyways. I hear Kelly Moore has had it also and that they can order it in but that since Sherwin took it on they stepped out of keeping it on the shelf. Just checked the other day and Sherwin current price was $31+ per gal or 32+ per fiver making it about $10 more per fiver compared to going direct with Jake. For me, the turn around between order and to my door was one day. I like the product...
Just wait till ya get the flyers and sample fans in hand..they're so good you'll be like what the heck have I been trying to push. Nothing like showing up at a bid with them hanging off yer measuring wheel for people to see and touch is my feeling. They look at their peeling failing stain and then back at the samples and it becomes a no brainer in many cases. This translates into a pretty big confidence boost while bidding and I can see the increased interest from customers.
It's one thing to be able to incorporate the pros & cons of either a film forming product or penetrating product into a bid and another to be able to discuss a 3rd product option in order to take a middle ground or moderate position. Although I can't say anything of durability myself at this point, I can confirm that it flows, holds, and colors well at about 200' per gal.
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As Mike's post demonstrates, the trick to comprehending the written word is to assume, for the most part, that a fair share of writers just don't know where to place commas in their writing. The spoken word is different in that we can easily pick up on inflections, pauses, etc. that portion things out for whatever reason. I often wonder if other languages are at all able to similarly play with words as the English language does. It been said the English language is weak that way though..
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Quality changes depending on how updated an area is which usually depends on how active development in the area is.. Virtual Earth, Google Earth are options..The birds eye view is my favorite. Zillow is hooked in there also which when going that route ya also get a feel for the price demographics of the neighborhood yer in or how much the house is worth. Sq footage is usually listed for ya too.
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Harbor Freight..
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In adjustable brass format similar to pictured can be had at Ace for $7+ or $6+ at Whitecap. Those type are what come on Chapin industrial pumpups. Actually just bought the Extreme pumpup concrete sprayer yesterday. Is pretty sweet I must say. Came with .5 gpm fan and a 1 gpm fan for 30-35% solids. I also got the cone tip while I was at it.
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gOD bLESS and get well soon Jon!!
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I don't get you Rick...you do know that if it goes well as far as things like ease of use, cleanup, or is asthetically pleasing,etc., and you decide to go head long with it that it may very well be more durable and last longer than your current business model allows for? ..Who was it that said something about not using it on customer jobs as it untested or whatever? That wasn't you was it?
Hurry up and get that job done!. I want pics and feedback for the semi-trans cedar. Have a job about ready for it and but that one color on my sample chain seems a tad muddy on the grain...Maybe I got it dirty on accident or maybe a darker color sample been rubbed into it.
ps- oh it was you that said that:
"I may be getting old and conservative, but my co. will not use customer jobs as a product testing ground."
Is this job your gonna do a customer? Quik change there Rick if so.
The open mindedness is refreshing. Save some stain for me please.
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Hows about throwin some current figures for countersinking and sanding?..
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haha, yea right :) Has worked real sweet. I kept sticking in these cheap 1500psi Deublin models so it had to go sometime. I may still have the Hot Water Wizzards link around here somewhere for the DIY info or maybe drum up any brands spec sheet to see what range is used..just thought some kind soul would have the measure handy..
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Can someone let me know what angle tips and their distance to the ground the Hydrotek surfacers are working best? I usually use 15's..
I bought the gut parts (27" bar I think and swivel) to stick in my DIY surfacer and apparently they too close to ground. Is striping and runnin pretty rough as if the spin is cuttin through water. The bar, upon installing, was bending more than my hand made pipe version I been using and was hitting the shroud. So I stuck swivel up from underneith to gain that clearance....Looks like I got to go shop for larger castors and or do some shimming to get the whole unit up now. Would help if I had some stock measurements to go off.
If someone could run a straightedge across their castors and then measure up to tip that should suffice..thanx!
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Since the first pic shows the customers error with the wand as being lighter/cleaner it pretty much tells me that this deck needed stripping down deeper to the point of not being able to see the tint/shade difference. We should only be able to see those marks as a texture/slash gouge. I assume you kept pressure proper but stripper strength was improper or it failed and therefore some the dead gray and grunge remained...Is it possable while cleaning that it was a drastic difference but when ya hit it with acid it did not pop a bright look as usual?. Was it really light shade when dry?
ps- Sometimes my notebook pic renditions are questionable so I went ahead and hooked up to the big screen. The second pic didn't look as bad as my first impression told me. Maybe a little bleach needed and a different finish. what ya say was used on it?
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You know we can listen to 3rd party info all day long on what the prior process was supposed to have been but is it provable?. Regardless, I would assume that since only the bare spots were supposedly oil primed I would have rather heard that the whole place had been primed...and done so after a proper clean at that.
What brand solid and primer combo would you guys have Tiger use?
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Yer all crazy!! Winning is everything!!
Ron,
I'm truly sorry, I wish my skills where better. Believe me, I have no time to stop and take a skills class for writing. If i took any classes they would be more computer courses. Software engineering, I pay a fortune for this stuff, Beth Knows I run a server company. I have for almost as long as i have pressure cleaned.
Dude don't be modest mang.You got mad skills in other ways that are more important!!
I mean they aint as mad as some of mine but I down right proud of you and entertained by post #19 :
Dear MR. JonesI recently recieved a proposal returned from your today and i noticed you guys mis spelled 1.2 million annually. I'm affraid i cant do work with people that cant spell millions. Please give Ron ********** a call, he cant spell either and you two will get along wonderful.
I before E except after C - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
umm er somebody has surely received a lesson somewhere..hope Ron wasn't wearing steel toe. :)
I agree with you Mel in that Ron does win. He got you good there ya have to admit...
Thanx guys.. this thread is great entertainment.
All about spelling and grammar...
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Who cares who suggested?. They jump off a bridge, you gonna follow?
Forget suggestion and excuses..leave and don't let door hit ya in the butt if you don't respect principles of free speach. You are surely mistaken about what fuels fodder when it comes to TGS.
Oh thanx for the permission oh mighty one... like we needed your blessing and commitment to keep things open around here.psst, you seemed to be begging for a dispute so there ya go... enjoy Scott. :)
Don't everyone goosestep all at once now!