BIGBOY its ron again, hope all is well with you. I know you mix your HF 50/50 and have a metering valve so you control the amount of draw. I pay $65 per 5 gal. when i can get it.
My problem is i mix at 1 gal to 4 gal water with a 20% draw[most of the time] and i cant get a handle on when the acid reaches the wand. I am looseing a lot of chem. i cant get the'flashing thing down' I see you have a new camera could you send a snap of your metering set up.
I NEED to get better or wont have to worry about washing anything anymore.
I have gone as far as having 3 five gal. buckets with dif. HF mixs in them. my supplier ran out[hf] and now im brushing everything and its getting dark too soon.
Most of the washers in my area have stopped washing trucks because they cant make money because they wont use HF[safety reasons ] and have to brush everything.
The one guy that used to wash the trucks im washing, now uses a stronger mix of PH as his only acid.
[safer ?] he brushes all cabs and uses PH on the bodies and his own soap. Also he has 2 machines and a 3 man crew. $40 a truck and 15 min. each has to do them on a sat and pay his help time and a half.[a big truck co. 60 trucks]
i see the type of rigs you wash and everyone tells me i can get better[faster] at washing them but damn if i can figure it out[the trucks i wash are pigs] 10 year old MACKS, that the bodys were painted with a brush,stack black from the front to the rear[also some have old heated bodys that leak exsaust all down the bodys. The tailgates all diesel where they feed the aspault into the hopper. The hydrolics all leak and the asphault is all over the brakes. The tires are all muddy and the paint comes off if you use too much pressure. On the alum. bodies they get all messed up and the owner wont let me use ANY TYPE OF ACID. There is dried aspault all over them that i cant get off[i bought some stuff from RON ST--------- at $35 per gal. that didnt do a damn thing. OIL DEVIL] COULD'NT AFFORD TO USE IT IF IT DID.
If you have any ideas that could help me i would be thankfull.
Next year im going to have to look for a new customer base [over the road type] with something besides a dirt yard to work out of.
Would you move the truck,raise the body, degrease,tilt the hood degrease and clean, put the body down,wash the truck and then move it back for $35 per truck? or am i wanting to work for myself too bad and being stupid. By the way truck ins. $2200 and liab. ins $1200 this is for a 91 ford pick up sorry for the long post but i am at the begining of the end before i even get going.
My problem is i mix at 1 gal to 4 gal water with a 20% draw[most of the time] and i cant get a handle on when the acid reaches the wand. I am looseing a lot of chem. i cant get the'flashing thing down' I see you have a new camera could you send a snap of your metering set up.
I NEED to get better or wont have to worry about washing anything anymore.
I have gone as far as having 3 five gal. buckets with dif. HF mixs in them. my supplier ran out[hf] and now im brushing everything and its getting dark too soon.
Most of the washers in my area have stopped washing trucks because they cant make money because they wont use HF[safety reasons ] and have to brush everything.
The one guy that used to wash the trucks im washing, now uses a stronger mix of PH as his only acid.
[safer ?] he brushes all cabs and uses PH on the bodies and his own soap. Also he has 2 machines and a 3 man crew. $40 a truck and 15 min. each has to do them on a sat and pay his help time and a half.[a big truck co. 60 trucks]
i see the type of rigs you wash and everyone tells me i can get better[faster] at washing them but damn if i can figure it out[the trucks i wash are pigs] 10 year old MACKS, that the bodys were painted with a brush,stack black from the front to the rear[also some have old heated bodys that leak exsaust all down the bodys. The tailgates all diesel where they feed the aspault into the hopper. The hydrolics all leak and the asphault is all over the brakes. The tires are all muddy and the paint comes off if you use too much pressure. On the alum. bodies they get all messed up and the owner wont let me use ANY TYPE OF ACID. There is dried aspault all over them that i cant get off[i bought some stuff from RON ST--------- at $35 per gal. that didnt do a damn thing. OIL DEVIL] COULD'NT AFFORD TO USE IT IF IT DID.
If you have any ideas that could help me i would be thankfull.
Next year im going to have to look for a new customer base [over the road type] with something besides a dirt yard to work out of.
Would you move the truck,raise the body, degrease,tilt the hood degrease and clean, put the body down,wash the truck and then move it back for $35 per truck? or am i wanting to work for myself too bad and being stupid. By the way truck ins. $2200 and liab. ins $1200 this is for a 91 ford pick up sorry for the long post but i am at the begining of the end before i even get going.