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Tips....
Here's some pictures showing how I prep the Mytee for my detailing boot camp classes....
Adding fresh water to the Mytee Lite II
Cycling water through to heat up both the water and the water line...
I tape the handle so I can do something else while the water heats up...
IF you don't circulate the water before using the line will be cold and your initial water coming out of the extractor will be cold.
Dry Extraction First
After machine brushing to loosen dirt, we then did dry extraction using a Shop-Vac, here's Stephan removing loose dirt out of the weave of the fabric before we introduce any liquid cleaners.
After dry extraction apply carpet and upholstery cleaner
After we brushed and vacuumed the upholstery to remove all loose dirt then we sprayed the fabric down with the Detailer's Carpet & Upholstery Cleaner.
Get a good upholstery cleaner and use this on upholstery. With the Mytee Lite 8070 you CAN put a cleaning solution in the clean water holding tank but then you're never actually extracting with clean water as you'll always be injecting the material with the cleaning solution. So pre-treat and extract with only hot water.
Brush or agitate cleaner
Get a Cyclo upholstery brush for your PC and let the machine do the work when you need to scrub something before you extract it.
I can't tell you how much it helps to have a clear extractor wand like I have because you can visually see when you're pulling nothing but clear water out and that's a visual indicator that you've removed all the dirt or stain substances.
Practice holding the extractor so the opening is flush with the surface as the extraction of the water and everything else depends on vacuum. If you have a gap you lose the vacuum applied to the material.
Move the extractor wand slowly over the surface when extracting, remember the water you've injected needs to travel through the material to get to the wand. If you move the wand too fast you'll leave water behind.
Get gloves to because the water feed tube will get very hot around the handle, so hot it can burn you.
I have rubber gripping gloves that I use in all my classes, just didn't have them when I took these pictures.
Flush the dirty water tank out at the end of the day, don't let the skanky water sit overnight.
Do a second rinse with some vinegar.
Get a
brass brush to keep the tip clean as you'll find corrosion will build up around the orifice and interfere with the spray coming out. Need to keep this clean. An extra fine tip from a set of torch cleaning tip
DON'T use the tip cleaner like a file and make the orifice larger, just keep it clean from mineral deposits as they will tend to build up if you don't use the extractor often.
Get an Air Mover to speed up the drying process. Roll up all the windows but not all the way up. Leave them cracked ope an inch or two from the top then place the air mover inside the car and turn it on while you tackle the rest of the car.
Shop-Vac Professional Air Mover
If you're doing wet extraction on the car, do this first after washing and drying the car. The idea is to get the wet work done first so you can get the car to the drying step so it is dry by the time you're done with the detail job.
You don't want mold growing inside the foam or under any fabric or carpet and you don't want to get your customer back a car with a wet interior.
At Mobil Tech each year I teach a class called,
The order of step to detail a car
And this is what I share in that class, that is get the wet steps done as soon as possible so you can get the car to the drying phase. Then do the rest of the car.
That's off the top of my head...
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