Dick Atkins

We use the m5 and use a back pack sprayer modified to hold our cleaning solution. Never had a problem with spills or not priming only a short hose from the backpack sprayer to the tip.

We use TWP Dark Oak on the new wood and a finish coat of California Redwood on the whole deck. Pretty good match.

We used Safe Restore on an Old Bank building that had a lot of CITY dirt and most all came off completely. Only had a couple of streaks that faded but were still visible. These only showed up after they dried off. The Marble trim looked great.

The manufactures of Cleaning Chems have spent more than a few bucks to test and refine their products to do the job as safely as possible. There a lot of chemical reactions that can get DEADLY if they are mixed. Ammonia and clorox right from the grocery store when mixed can kill you in minutes. Its best to let the Chemical mixing to the experts and sell more jobs to do instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. Just my $.02 worth. Only been in the power wash business for 18 years ,so I too am still learning.

The conversion kit for the small pot will reduce the amount of media coming out of the pot. Soda is really small compared to sand or glass beads. Even with the conversion kit it will still be putting out more soda than you need to do the job. More soda out means more $$ to do the job. The big pot could get a suitable metering valve but it would still be putting out to much soda. If you want to soda blast then get a pot designed for soda, adjust pot pressure and line pressure for fine tuning soda flow. A good soda pot with hose and control valves and a wet head is around $6600 in addition to the pot you will also need a cooler/dryer package $$not sure. These units will make the job go much better and more profitable. Keep the sand pot for using other media, corn, sand, crushed glass, etc. I do a good bit of corn blasting and tryed using soda through it with the metering valve almost closed and it did a good job but used about 3-4 times the soda I should have and lots of soda dust, dead plants.