Recent content by RonG

Bad thing with shop vacs is what do you do with the water after it's full? Also a lot of soaps seem to foam up with vacs. You can use a deformer. We have a 38hp steel eagle vac that we use for picking up waste water. It pumps to a containment tank. For truck washing we use a utility pump. Turns...

yea but remember, direct drive may give you problems pulling from a tank. you may have to prime it. Cats are expensive to rebuild. I have one cat that we use and when it craps out we are replacing it. Everything else I have are general pump or udors. We run them hard as well. Theyre all bypassed...

Yea or you could do a gear box as well. There's a guy here in Louisville ky, Russ Johnson at south side equipment. He can get you the best fit. Gear box would work better for being compact.

Just curious how many guys here actually work out of a shop or just do mobile detailing? Or any that are doing both?

why are you looking for a partner? or are you looking for a investor? Partners can be a good thing or a very bad thing. More times then not, it turns out to be a bad thing. Make sure everything is in writing. Even if you think you can trust the person, sometimes people forget what they said, or...

I would use a belt drive pump. Belt drives wont give you any problems pulling from a tank. As far as bypassing back to the tank, thats simple. run a line straight off your unloader back to a bulkhead or whatever in the top of the tank. Ive built many of machines. btw id check out a lifan instead...

Doesnt have to be Indy. Im interested in learning about whatever I can. Avon seems to be about 2 hours away.

no they didnt go out of business. just adding new trucks. out with the old in with the new

yea that whole nothing but rain down the drain is crap. Most of the guys try to interpret bits and pieces of the CWA, but fail to really know what the deal is. We deal with this constantly. We have some contracts we have to recovery water for, such as fedex and we are washing 100+ trucks there...

Looking for someone in this area that is willing to let me shadow them for a day or two. I'm new to detailing and I'm located in the Louisville Ky area.

I am pretty new to detailing. I have ran a fleet washing company for a while now but never got into actually detailing. I have started doing it for some of my customers and they basically fleet vehicles. Most have vinyl floors in them and are pretty nasty. I bought a vx5000 steamer and a...

just curious, you guys ever use acid to clean up rims? Usually when we wash trucks, we flash the rims, hit them with acid real quick, then hit them with soap, it takes all of 20 seconds to do and it removes all brake dust and everything else

Hey everyone, my names Ron, Im new to the site. From the Louisville, KY area, currently run a mobile fleet washing company. I don't really have any experince detailing but recently got a oppurtunity detailing for a company before all the trucks go up for sale. Mostly box trucks, tractor...