Do you Remove your Bucket Grit Inserts Each and Every Time

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Do you Remove your Bucket Grit Inserts Each and Every Time ?

I do when I was running the CG ones, and prior to that, the OG Grit Guard

I have the Detail Guards + Scrub Wall. It's a pretty SNUG fit. Snug enough that I need to push down on it to bottom out.
It's going to be a slight exercise weekly after a wash to pull it out, and I expect this is going to at least put stress on either the rubber feet of the Detail Guard or accelerated - stress- on the plastic locking legs doing this 1X a week (aka, every car wash). Just swapped grit guards in my buckets to new ones and it has me thinking.....


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Resolved the issue.DG Version 1 of these -----there were posts about it floating:not staying in place
Version 2 of these....the removed the foam side pads and added rubber ones.
I took the rubber feet of and the tension is all gone, minus about 2 inches before it needs to bottom out
It is fine ....I don't expect it to float, I believe partially due to the fact that the scrub wall is still tensioned against the side of the bucket.

I haven't filled it with water to confirm but it feels pretty well tensioned
 
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I don't have the Detail Guardz Dirt Lock (yet?), but I did just get a Mitt Slide along with an AF translucent marked bucket, and I'm not sure how I like that yet. But yes, I remove my Grit Guard every time to get the bucket clean.
 
Wait....I need to test the DG in my Translucent buckets....(which are thinner, not has heavy duty and does have some -considerable flex- due to it being thinner
Maybe this is where it will ease in and out

It required enough -persusion- pushing down on it to bottom out and I expect the same persuasion on removal....which I don't think is a good thing for the legs on this thing.
 
Yeah the translucent bucket didn't work too well in the new dolly I got, which has different screws in it than my old ones, I'm not sure without some more experimentation whether the problem I was having was due to the bucket, the Mitt Slide, or the dolly...since they are all different than my previous setup...just too many things going on to experiment right now.
 
I have the Detail Guardz grit guards and a scrub wall for one bucket.

I pull them out after every use as I want to rinse them off as well as rinse and clean out my buckets.

Then dry the buckets out with a towel as I use my two buckets to store my drying towels in one bucket and the other has some wash mitts, rinseless sponge, glass towels, and towels used on my wheels.
I put the grit guards and scrub wall back in the buckets before I put the towels in. That way I’m all ready to go for next wash. All I have to do is pull out the clean towels which I’m using most of them anyway.
 
If it gets cold in your area, I'd remove them in winter, particularly if it's a snug fit. I had a bucket bottom split.
 
I bought 2 identical food safe buckets at either Lowes or Home Depot and one of them is a perfect fit for a grit guard and the other one the grit guard stops an inch from actually bottoming out

One of my older buckets with a Gamma Seal USED TO BE my rinseless bucket and after I started using a sponge and grit guard instead of the GD method I quit saving leftover RW solution and I would dump it and take the grit guard out of it to clean it out; although, a few weeks back I had dumped it out , washed and rinsed it in out the wash sink and when I went to refill it the next time I saw some fine black grit in the bottom

The best I can figure out is that grit was getting between the lip of the bucket and the Gamma Seal when I poured the solution and the rinse water out and wasn't getting cleaned or flushed out

I retired both buckets with Gamma Seals and just use regular bucket lids now
 
I have a screw-top bucket somewhere that I have used to travel some prepared wash solution a different location, I've never had a Gamma Seal, that is the one that snaps onto the lip of a regular bucket? I have to look for that screw-top one, I don't remember where it got to. Ok I found it, it's one of these:

No lip. I must have gotten it from US Plastics, there is also a 5 gal version. With what USP charges to ship in the lower 48, I can only imagine what they would charge to Alaska.
 
Posted an update to the OP. Rubber feet removed. Issue resolved
 
I have a screw-top bucket somewhere that I have used to travel some prepared wash solution a different location, I've never had a Gamma Seal, that is the one that snaps onto the lip of a regular bucket? I have to look for that screw-top one, I don't remember where it got to. Ok I found it, it's one of these:

No lip. I must have gotten it from US Plastics, there is also a 5 gal version. With what USP charges to ship in the lower 48, I can only imagine what they would charge to Alaska.

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The first pic is the last unused one I have

This is the seal on the lid

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And the gasket where the ring snaps onto the bucket

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I actually bought a big pack of them at Sam’s Club in Lexington Kentucky when we were moving back up to the bush of Alaska on a government move

That was 1994

I took lots of buckets of rice, pinto beans, split peas, sugar, flour, etc because groceries were so incredibly expensive


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