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hogjowl

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The thing you were SO concerned about was heat.

How is the heat?

Its reliability is what you will rave about in a few years.

Looks like a sweet set up Marty, but I'm kinda young and excitable.

This makes no sense to me, but I swear the heat is better than my propane rig. I know, that CAN'T be true, but I swear it feels like it.

My son, who never wears gloves, had to break down and ask for mine on a tile job the other day.
 

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This makes no sense to me, but I swear the heat is better than my propane rig. I know, that CAN'T be true, but I swear it feels like it.

My son, who never wears gloves, had to break down and ask for mine on a tile job the other day.
We have the same Cleanco unit Marty. I believe that the numbers Mikey came up with at the experience were in line with what I generally see and fairly accurate. I run a lie detector at the wand. 6 flow has/will produce 185 maybe 190 ATW. 12 flow 175 ATW. What are you seeing/getting?
 
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Really glad to hear the heat is PLENTY.

I was hoping you'd feel that way but had my doubts, knowing you have run LP for many years.

Are you sticking with 12 flow or have you scaled it down?
 

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I know it doesn't address the OP question of organization, but for anyone on the fence trying to make the decision of jumping to DD, I can tell you:

Without question, my revenue per hour on the TM has increased significantly since switching to the new 1200. I attribute this to (of course) more flow, heat, and vacuum, but also the organizational layout. If no customer stroking is needed we can be cleaning within 4 minutes of pulling up to a job.

Never say never, but I can't see myself switching back to a slide in.
where is your pic of your organizational skills?
 

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marty what do think about the fuel usage compared to a slidein?

i though about that when i first looked into DD, but especially when its cold your not waiting for the heat to build like you would with a slide in (buring gas that whole time) , especially with the doors open on the van and all the cold in the van. Where a DD gets better heat from the flick of the switch, then builds a little more to max temp. Now i know you guys running the huge tm's dont have this problem but do you run in single digits ?
 

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ive run my slide in down in cold temps, but air cooled can only get so hott.
 

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This makes no sense to me, but I swear the heat is better than my propane rig. I know, that CAN'T be true, but I swear it feels like it.

My son, who never wears gloves, had to break down and ask for mine on a tile job the other day.
I found my Little Giant to be very inconsistent. Les visited once and did some tweaking which got it up to 240.

Didn't last long though and most of the time I was cleaning at 170 to 190..
 
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My Rage looses alot of heat when running in cold temps and i worry about it freezing up, i always make sure water is flowing even if i stop for a second.
 

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Scott we will run both our Prochem's & Butler's in single digit weather. The real concern I have is not for freezing up (we do as you and setup fast and keep water flowing) but from freeze damage to other items. Gauges, preheaters, brass qd's, elbows etc.
 
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We have (4) in the South garage and 1-box in the North and when it gets freezing we will take another (1) to the Lawrence shop for the winter. Usually a carpet truck because we use the water trucks more in the winter. Plus if needed we can clean with them still.

I'll look and see if I have an pictures.
 
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I know it doesn't address the OP question of organization, but for anyone on the fence trying to make the decision of jumping to DD, I can tell you:

Without question, my revenue per hour on the TM has increased significantly since switching to the new 1200. I attribute this to (of course) more flow, heat, and vacuum, but also the organizational layout. If no customer stroking is needed we can be cleaning within 4 minutes of pulling up to a job.

Never say never, but I can't see myself switching back to a slide in.


With an efficient system like that you can save enough time to add a few more jobs per month and that will cover the cost of the DD
 

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Below is a picture of the final shelving kit that Chris Pond and I designed. I'd love to know what people think.

Shelving Kit.jpg
 

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oh, ok, nice to know. so your saying buy 3 stainless steel shelves instead. ok got it. haha
 

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