Steve Gunn

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #40 on: December 15, 2010, 07:35:56 pm »
Think Gunny was smitten with Paul Kings beast of a machine. Have to say the thing is awesome. Not pretty but pretty awesome.

Paul Kings machine is a beast its probably the most powerful t/m in the country

steve try and get Paul to post some pictures, I would love to see his machine

Will ring him tomorrow he's at the bairns concert tonight

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #41 on: December 15, 2010, 07:49:21 pm »
I meant as project over Xmas ;D

How did you get over the heat spikes with the burner?

Steve you could just buy a hot pressure washer and use that as a pump and heater with no need to manufacture just need to get it to pull from a water tank on it's own.

Shaun

Mike Halliday

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #42 on: December 15, 2010, 08:00:34 pm »
by pass into the fresh tank until the thermostat kicks in, then disconect the flow switch and have a second uploader after the burner so when you stop triggering the wand  it  diverts so much water back to the freshtank. this stops water sitting in a hot burner ( which will send the water temp through the rooffor 2-4seconds  when you trigger the wand again)

see its not as easy as it sounds building T/Ms ;)
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John Kelly

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #43 on: December 15, 2010, 08:29:36 pm »
Paul posted some photos when he first bought it here: http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=106150.0
He's now got it in a Sprinter.

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #44 on: December 15, 2010, 09:25:36 pm »
John what ever happened to the cold water Prowler (no HX) designed for flood damage?

Shaun

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #45 on: December 15, 2010, 10:26:37 pm »

John Kelly

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #46 on: December 15, 2010, 10:35:21 pm »
Still made Shaun. Chem Dry up here have one. Its about 8k. They also use it for fire cleans using spinner tools.

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #47 on: December 15, 2010, 10:42:14 pm »
I thought it was just a blower and a water pump?

Shaun

John Kelly

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #48 on: December 15, 2010, 11:05:59 pm »
Its a 20hp Kholer, 36 Blower, 2500psi pump with a clutch and also a seperate 2" 20 gallon a minute de-flooding pump. Its a bit of a beast and they love it.

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #49 on: December 15, 2010, 11:08:56 pm »
Nice, got a link to the pic?

Shaun

carpetdoctor

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #50 on: December 16, 2010, 05:50:22 pm »
Hi,

I think the idea of building your own truckmount is a fantastic idea, I have a porty but am now considering buiding my own truck mount, can anyone recommend where to start.

E.g What parts will i need etc

I have some knowledge of engines.

email: lightbeamboy@yahoo.co.uk

thanks

Anthony Nicholson

Steve Gunn

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #51 on: December 16, 2010, 07:13:17 pm »
The interest in this thread is amazing obviously a lot of people want a t/m and would build their own if they could

Mike Halliday

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #52 on: December 16, 2010, 07:26:23 pm »
Steve something to consider is using a insulated fresh water tank, I have a Bane tank which has a heating element fitted, I heated the water overnight then plugged it in at each job to keep the water hot. you can get pumps that will handle 85 degrees  this is a real easy way to have hot water without the hotbox or heat exchanger. then all you need is a pump and a blower
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #53 on: December 16, 2010, 07:37:07 pm »
Mike what heat do you set your hot box at? and what do suspect what temp you get at the wand?

My TM when full heated will say 230 infact sometimes 250 but at the wand I suspect far far less, just wondered if a hot box will retain hotter water? re your youtube video in the greasy restaurant.

Shaun


Mike Halliday

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #54 on: December 16, 2010, 07:49:32 pm »
I set it so I can't see the wand head for steam :D :D

a hotbox will heat 13lt of water to 117degrees  per minute  so it could run 3 wands at 100degress without any drop of temp
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

jasonl

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #55 on: December 16, 2010, 07:52:59 pm »
by pass into the fresh tank until the thermostat kicks in, then disconect the flow switch and have a second uploader after the burner so when you stop triggering the wand  it  diverts so much water back to the freshtank. this stops water sitting in a hot burner ( which will send the water temp through the rooffor 2-4seconds  when you trigger the wand again)

see its not as easy as it sounds building T/Ms ;)

I have got a theory to solve this .  

What do you think about having a recirculating  system involving  the usual supply fresh water hose going to the pump  and then onto the hot box , then to the wand , at the wand have a Y- piece  so that flow can go to the wand if the trigger is depressed , if the trigger is not depressed , water would flow down a return hose back into the fresh water tank , eventually on a big  job the hot box stat would cut out.

Can the dual pumps take heat through them?

I know there would be hose management issues and extra cost issues .

Jason you are suggesting what I said, I've put in bold our similar statements, but you have a point after a while the freshwater tank will heat up to a temp that is too hot for the pump but its very rare
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jasonl

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #56 on: December 16, 2010, 07:55:04 pm »
Sorry Mike , just read some pumps can handle 85 degrees
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Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #57 on: December 16, 2010, 08:06:38 pm »
Seems over complicated, as I have read it Mike has the hot box firing all of the time and diverts some into the clean water tank to take the spikes out.

Shaun

Mike Halliday

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #58 on: December 16, 2010, 08:07:09 pm »
Jason I have changed your post by accident above, I pressed 'modify' instead of 'quote' so my answer is contained in your post!
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jasonl

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Re: Home Made T/m
« Reply #59 on: December 16, 2010, 08:19:25 pm »
So an uploader means a u-bend  in other words .

The chem dry machines had them years ago , right near the tool head you you always had instant heat.
Tis is just on a bigger scale
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