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I don't know if this should go under wastewater or not but here is my problem. I've been washing fleets for over five years. I've been really blessed to pick up accounts that already have wash pits in place to capture all water. We do vacuum trucks, dump trucks, all sorts. I gotta call the...

I've been two-stepping for a while now and have pretty much got it down for anything that I need to do. I have an account with a vaccum truck company with about 20 trucks. For those of you who don't know, these trucks transfer drilling fluids as well as oil and water from well-sites. So, they...

Any body out there use any of the wax products you add to rinse water? If so, do they work well, leave streaks on the aluminum, and what is a good product?

I normally do fleets and oilfield work mainly, but I was asked to these gas stations and they were wanting some of the buildings sprayed off as well as some of the sidewalks...I know where to get the sodium hypochlorite at but where do most of you get sodium hydroxide/butyl at?

A friend of mine is regional manager for a chain of gas stations. He has offered me 34 stations doing nothing but the canopy(around the side of the roof over the gas pumps-the visible part) and the support columns for the canopies. What I wanna know is does anyone have any experience doing...

There's a coca-cola bottling plant in the town where I'm from. Most of my work is out of shreveport-bossier and this one would be nice as it is a few miles from the house. They have right at 20 trucks and do not have anyone washing and the drivers have told me they never have but a few shop...

I wrote on here a few months ago about trying to get high-pressure acid without running it through the pump or using a downstreamer at low psi. I know I could do this with an x-jet but that's not what I'm looking for. Is there any way to do this with a sur-flo pump and maybe a one-way...

I've got a small problem with one of my machines. I've got a with an 18 hp vanguard and is rated for 3000 psi @ 5 gpm. I've got an aaladdin that has the same thing on it, but the will blow that one out of the water. It just doesn't have the pressure I know it should. It's not sucking air...

I've gotta small problem I was gonna see if some of you could help me with. I've got some real great degreaser that works great for all of my oil-field work. The problem is, is if i put a little in with my soap to help with bugs and things when two-stepping, it leaves streaks on the aluminum...

This past weekend, my downstreamer quit drawing chemicals from the tank. Didn't have what I needed to fix it. So, we only had about eight trucks left, and I mixed a little acid in with my soap and degreaser in my upstream chem tank. Bad for your pump I know, but man did it work wonders in...

I've got an alladdin 3500psi @5gpm hot water skid unit with a general pump. This past weekend, the pressure felt kind of weak and then it started throbbing or surging whatever you want to call it. It does it when I'm downstreaming or running high pressure. However, it does not do it when...

I had a problem with the front bumpers on some trucks I did this past weekend. The love bugs have been real bad for the past couple of weeks and the front of the trucks were covered in them. I presprayed them with soap and then washed as normal. The soap didn't help much because I still had...

I'm trying to see if anyone knows how to figure what your downstreamer mixes your chems at. I have a 3500 psi 5gpm unit with a 1.8 mm orifice chemical tip and a 15045 high pressure tip on my wand. I am trying to figure the pressure at full draw.

I got a call from a friend of mine that's manager of a gas plant in my area. He said he was wanting to know if I could wash some industrial cooling fans. They're about 15 feet high, 6 feet wide and look like a big radiator. Washing it's not the problem I can get anything clean....he said the...

I washed a bi-monthly account this weekend that has about 30 gravel trucks. They travel mostly down dirt roads so have a lot of dust build up on them. I two-stepped them the same way I've been doing and it just wasn't getting all the dirt film off. It didn't do as good on the tires as it...

How exactly do you flash and what is it used for?

I've been noticing the trucks that get washed at truck washes look like they the frame is waxed it's so clean. I use the two-step system and get all the paint on the cab clean, wheels, tires, etc. but I've been having problems getting the frames to shine like that. It's still leaving a film...

I just started two-stepping a couple of months ago and man does it work wonders. The way I do it is put the acid base on first, then apply the soap as follows. Just in an effort to save a little bit of time, I was wanting to know if anyone applies the soap and acid at the same time or will...

I do mostly fleet and equipment washing as well as some oil-field work on the weekends. I'm still in school and I was looking for something to do during the evenings and the UPS trucks around here never look clean. I was wondering if anyone had any information on how to obtain a bid notice or...