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If you're just vacuuming up dust and small particles, your "6 HP" (haha) vacuum should probably be OK even with the long hose length and smaller diameter. If you're mainly picking up heavy debris like wood chunks in a wood shop, the increased friction from the longer and narrower hose may make...

I have a Brinkman dual xenon, which has been dead for some time (won't hold a charge). It died over a period of several months, gradually giving practically no usage time for each apparently full charge. If you search, this is not an uncommon problem. I read where one person replaced the battery...

I have one, and looked at the same choices you are looking at. The Vapor Chief seemed to give a good combination of quality and performance for the money. I'm not sure why there is so little discussion on them. Give them a call. The owner (Kevin) is very willing to answer any and all questions...

Just use a grout sponge, available at HDepot or other hardware stores. A 3-pack is under 5 bucks and they last forever. Each sponge can be cut into 3 equal pieces, and if you want to cut a curve in it to better match your tire profile, use a serrated bread knife, or a scroll saw if you have one...

Hi Evan, the UWW+ wouldn't be going in the extractor, just in the injection sprayer. The injection sprayer has a concentrated mix of UWW+ and has a mixing valve that mixes for example a 4:1 ratio with the heated water under pressure from the extractor. PS: an injection sprayer is just a 5 quart...

Anybody? I can’t be the first person to think about using your extractor for double duty as a waterless/rinseless wash pre-spray, to avoid the “touching” step of a rinseless wash. And if someone tried it, they probably also tried using the heater, since heat improves the cleaning...

I was going to try and use UWW+ in an injection sprayer, fed by the 250 psi pump on my extractor. The extractor has a 2000W heater which I can either leave off or turn on, and I wondered if anyone has tried this before. The thought being, for about the same amount of water+UWW I'd mix up to do...

As best I could figure, that's the going rate for the autoclavable polypropylene 2.5 gallon bottles with spigots. $200 may be a little high, but all the others I found were well over $100 per bottle. No idea whether there is really some expensive process involved in making them, or just a...

Yep, must be the 2.5 gallon container with the spigot. While I was out today I found 1 gallon size in the standard plastic milk jug for a buck Speaking of 2.5 gallon containers with a spigot, check this out: 2-1/2 Gallon (10 liters) Book Bottle with Spigot 165 x 241 x 374mm | U.S. Plastic Corp...

For whatever reason, the price of the distilled water I buy has gone up about 20% this year. Not that it's a big amount of money or anything, I'm just wondering why, and if this is happening everywhere. I always buy the store-branded 2.5 gallon jug with a built-in pour spout, now over 3...

It's a crap shoot whether a given customer house has a readily accessible 20A circuit that is not being used for anything else, versus having two separate 15A circuits not being used for anything else. You might even have customers who have several 240V and 120V circuits in their garage, and...

Short answer is no. Some units even have 3 cords, to be connected to 3 separate 120V circuits of 15-20 amps each. Note that you don't just need 2 different outlets, you need 2 different circuits. Many of the machines will include a device to allow you to find out if 2 outlets are on a different...

Probably right but in theory it could be year-month-date and was sitting in a warehouse for a while. It's ambiguous. Just the fact that two people can interpret it differently says it's a crappy label. Luckily, in 16 years there won't be this problem, for another 84 years ;o)

Just wondering if a vapor steamer (using triangle brush with terry towel) on the windshield outgassing film would work, or if chemicals are a must.

Can't be an LS6 if it has factory air. Factory air was not allowed on solid lifter engines (to include the L78). So if it's the original factory 454 and has factory air, it's an LS5, and it would I believe have a Quadrajet not a Holley, if still in original factory configuration.

I pre-clean many of my towels in a 5-gallon bucket, especially the really dirty/greasy ones. If I have under about 6-8 MF towels or so, which is too small a load and drives the automatic-load-balancing in the washer crazy, I wash them by hand (but use the dryer to dry them). As I seem to be...

I've mentioned this before, most recently here: http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-expert-featuring-mike-phillips/92477-long-throw-polisher-proper-technique-2.html#post1265264 But it didn't get any comment. Good to see some proof points from Todd H. The large throw of the 21 is a...

Anyone know if there's TV coverage? I can't find any mention of it so I guess that means no. Race is on Sunday.

If you spray some adhesive dissolver on before you begin sawing (so that you're sawing with adhesive remover mixed in there as well) the sawing can be easier. And as a footnote for future reference on a different application of the same concept, this same process can be used to remove a big...

Thanks Bob, so I guess I'd run it without the filter in most cases. It looks like the only foam wet-vac filter that Ridgid sells doesn't fit this model anyway. Not sure I like the idea of it sucking dirty water having unknown debris without any filter. Maybe I'll see if I can find a quick way...