Larry B

Truck and traler drove off of a job site last weekend. Went in the warehouse to pull down trailer doors and came back out to a missing truck and trailer. They had no keys( in my pocket), equipment was not insured but truck was. I will recover and keep going but I did learn some lessons I thought I might share. Do not keep all of your tools on your trailer when not using them. like x-jets, extra wands etc.. if you do try to have a spare in the shop. Have a backup system no matter how small. If you have keys for customers gates, trucks etc.. make copies. You could just lose them instead of having them stolen. Much easier than than trying to get replacements from you accounts. Keep you cell phone on you. At least I put it in my pocket for a change. If you can't work without an x-jet, extend-a-wand, long wands or whatever, KEEP A SPARE. I do not have a store anywhere nearby that I could replace some of those things. I had to put off an apartment complex scheduled for the next day because I did not have some of these things. Even if you rent a machine until you replace yours you need longer hoses and so on.

A good hydraulic store wil have an adapter. I have found hose thread to NPT.

Mathews makes a good bow and it will last you a long time. I shoot a Bowtech Might Mite and bow season starts on the 25th of this month. I may be moving to Montana though and will miss hunting entirely this year if I do.

My guess is the bleach is drying and deteriorating the exposed fibers in the screen. It is tighten and tearing the weak spots. They are rubber coated screens with cloth inside. Not really your fault but it wasn't quite like that before you washed the house either. Like Celeste says it is pretty inexpensive to replace but just a PITA. Most of them you can leave the screen frames in to make it easier.

Grease pirates is good. Beware the Disney empire though. They could easily put a stop order on that name for infringement. The argument that gets used most often is " would you have chosen that name without the ride/movie being in existence". A lot of people lose because of that argument. A local girl lost her coffee name "Sambucks" to starbucks. BTW her name was Samantha Buck and that didn't help her.

I appreciate that. No sign of any of it yet. Certainly hope soembodygets caught for it. Thanks again, larry

I buy mine form a place in Portland I can get you the contact info. It comes in 20' sections and I have them cut it for me in 6' lengths.. It is Schedule 80 stainless, around $2 /foot. I thread it myself. Somebody out there in your area has to have it it just takes a lot of phone calls. I like it because it is light and easy to handle. Makes a big difference after 30-40 trucks in a day.

Thanks for the support. I hadn't thought of flyers or anything like that. I keep hoping the trailer will be recovered along side of a backcountry road somewhere. I can't imagine that was their intended target, I think it was more of a bonus that was attached to the truck.

Paint stores have really nice aluminum pin lock roller poles. They are threaded so it is easy to attach a brush. They are cheaper than a coress too.

Congratulations on a finished job, the first is usually the toughest. the customer took their time to find a good contractor and were no doubt picky on the job. You have created a nice reference for yourself by being professional and following through.

I used to have an Excel 50 but I could never find anybody to teach me how to fly it. I paid $1500 for the kit, controls and engine so I was not about to crash it. Guess I should have looked into how hard it was before I bought it.

Dang, I thought it said CRIME SCENE

Lack of knowledge is scary WOW!! Look at all that FREE information!! Pressure Washers got skills Pressure Washing Contractors' got skills

Not too often that a sports team from the West Coast makes it to the finals of anything. Final game is on now and OSU is going to take it... SORRY North Carolinians...it is UNC but OSU is still going to win

OSU WINS!! The first national championship in Orgeon for baseball. It was a close game but 1 error made the difference. It's only baseball but it's my favorite sport. Now if we coudl just get our college act together. Thanks Shane for the extra support

2 - 0 OSU is up...

Glad it worked out for you Florin. The first one is tough but you will learn of ways to improve every time. Was she as "interesting" as it sounded on the phone? Did you guys settle on the price she wanted?

You never know when you might need the extra water capacity.

I counted 54 tanks on there. At around 100# apiece thats quite a load.

I am not sure what you mean by third number. Look at the desired psi at top and follow it down until you see the number that matches your gpm best without going over. Follow that row to the left column to see the correct nozzle size required to achieve the psi. Hope thaat helps a bit.

Link to a nozzle chart:http://www.arnorthamerica.com/spraynozzlechart.html Drop psi by using larger nozzle orifices= 1200psi for your machine is a XX07 Changing psi with the unloader lowers gpm as well.

I have heard good things about rowletts as well. You could look at Sunbrite Supply, they are a sponsor and give a discount when you click on their link.

By acting professional and courteous you have gained another reference. Telling her off or just ignoring the problem, no matter what the outcome would have resulted in an unhappy customer. She will remember your attention and desire to please when she retells the story.

There really is no "1 chem cleans it all" product. What are you cleaning and what have you tried?

What are you washing? Companies spend money developing formulas so they tend to be a fairly guarded comodidity.