Scott Stone

Gee, what an offer! Now, which one do I send to Simi? :p I think that I will pass. It does appear that they had a problem, and figured out how to get a round it. I don't think that you need 4 holes in your surface cleaner. That would require moving to much air to get the water to suck up. Two will do. ALso, it appears that they used fittings for water tanks in the holes where the hose comes in. That gives it a nice clean installation. I think that Jon has two fittings on his trailer, and it might be a couple of days before he misses them.;) Scott

Looking at the pictures, I am amazed that it works, if it does.:( There are a couple of things wrong with what they did that might be easily remedied if a guy wanted to go to the effort. Now rememeber that this is the miscellaneous ramblings of a guy that does not do a lot of surface cleaning. I am also not the sort of guy that would be brave enough to cut holes in a perfectly good surface cleaner, unless it was someone elses. :whoops: The surface cleaner pictured needs some sort of air inlet to work. If you will look at the base, it is a solid piece of either plastic, or Polyurethane. It appears that if there was enough suction to actually vacuum something up that it would suck it straight to the floor, and seal it there, thus being really hard to move the surface cleaner, and not being able to vacuum anything up in the process. The way I could see this working is if there would be a vacuum break somewhere around the bottom of the surface cleaner. It would have to be relaly small, and be able to be nearly overwhelmed by the vacuum motor. What would happen then is that it would still try to suck the surface cleaner down towards the floor, but, as it did, it would still have a small gap that air could rush through. This would force the water up through the vacuum hoses. I am guessing that the vacuum system that you have would be able to pull it off. Why don't you cut a couple of holes in your surface cleaener and let us know? BTW, I am pretty sure that is not a Whisper wash. Scott Stone

It all depends. The engines on most of our machines are designed to run at 3200 RPM. The reason is that they are air cooled, and that is the volume of air needed to cool it properly. So if you have an air cooled engine, then it will make your engine run hotter than design. If you have a liquid cooled engine, then as long as the fan is working like it should, and the radiator is not plugged, then you should be okay.

Okay, here is the reason that I am not a member of the PWNA, and why I do not think that PWNA certification will do anything for any contractor. It is an issue that is discussed Ad Infinitum on all the bulletin boards, and I think that EVERY board has a section that is concerned with this aspect of our industry. What it boils down to is, if it is not marketed to potential customers, by the sanctioning organization, it will never matter what kind of letters you have following your corporate name. This "marketing" could be as simple as being placed in the trade magazines of what ever group of people the certification would benefit. What is more, If they (the PWNA) did undertake a certification process, they could justify a higher expense to obtain Certification from the contractors. As it is, if I went in to just about any, let's say 99.999% of the building managers, or Fleet managers, or Restaurant Managers, and tried to use a certification from the PWNA as a selling point, I would likely be laughed out of the office. The same would not hold true with the IKECA certification, or the IWCA certification, because they are recognized. Recognition is the key. I will now make a promise, right here, IF I ever have anyone that I am sellign to ask me about what kind of certifications that I hold, I will join the PWNA, and I will obtain whatever certification is necessary. Until then, after 10 years, the PWNA only appears to represent the distributors, and the Manufacturers, and uses contractors to defray expenses. What is more is that the target market is the new contractors to become members, and most of the "workshops" at the conventions are targeted at the new contractors, unless they have changed by a huge amount. Of course, this is just my humble opinion. Scott Stone

A lot of the boards get really testy about links like this. They think that you are trying to steal their members, and will ban a person and delete the link. Nice thought though. Scott Stone

You may have time during the winter, but some of us in the armer climates work 24/7/365 Not a lot of spare time for htat kind of effort, and since I am not a PWNA member, I would see zero benefit in writing a test for them. Scott

And, no matter how religious you are, they will still deny it, or you will have to wwait for a factory rep to come in three weeks from next tuesday, and they will try to remember to have him look at it. Scott

Nope, Kohler builds Kohler, Yamaha builds Vanguard, and Daihatsu builds boat anchors. The Hondas are good machines. I prefer them over Vanguards. You do need to adjust the valves, and do not plan on using their warranty for anything, it is ridiculously complicated, and nearly impossible to get them to warranty anything. Just my experience. Scott Stone

As long as I get it first. I would even set up a thing to suck it this way, if I could.

HOw about a remote soap injection system using fuel solenoids like you have on a water heater to control the soap? It would probably work well, if you wanted teh time effort and money into it. Scott Stone

There is already two step hose that has the wires inside of it. It is expensive though. I think that it runs about $5.00 a foot for a hundred foot length. Scott Stone