Do you Remove your Bucket Grit Inserts Each and Every Time

[chefwong]

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

 

[Setec Astronomy]

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.

 

[chefwong]

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.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

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.

 

[BLM]

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.

 

[MisterSnoop]

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.

 

[chilly]

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

 

[Setec Astronomy]

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:

Screw Top Pail - 3.5 Gallon, White Lid S-15636W - Uline

Quickly open and reseal for easy access. Vacuum tight – Use with granulars, fine powders. Tamper evident with use of cable ties. Lid includes neoprene gasket for moisture-resistant storage. Molded, high-density polyethylene. FDA compliant. ULINE offers over 43,000 boxes, plastic poly bags...

www.uline.com

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.

 

[chefwong]

Posted an update to the OP. Rubber feet removed. Issue resolved

 

[chilly]

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:

Screw Top Pail - 3.5 Gallon, White Lid S-15636W - Uline

Quickly open and reseal for easy access. Vacuum tight – Use with granulars, fine powders. Tamper evident with use of cable ties. Lid includes neoprene gasket for moisture-resistant storage. Molded, high-density polyethylene. FDA compliant. ULINE offers over 43,000 boxes, plastic poly bags...

www.uline.com

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.

The first pic is the last unused one I have

This is the seal on the lid

And the gasket where the ring snaps onto the bucket

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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