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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: MAX Carpets on September 15, 2011, 11:05:39 am

Title: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: MAX Carpets on September 15, 2011, 11:05:39 am
Hi Guys

You may have read my last post sating I killed my Blazer! Took a chance and de-scaled again (done it Monday) Runs like a dream.

So please, all together now

"Justin you PLONKER"

Please feel free to use your own words.

I must add, that it is through these forums and a disccusion with Richie that led me to give it another de-scale. Once again thank you all.
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: AshWhite on September 15, 2011, 11:12:53 am
Not as much of a plonker as you would have been if you had bought another engine..

Just out of curiosity, what effect did descaling have on the engine??

Ash
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: MAX Carpets on September 15, 2011, 11:18:39 am
After my conversation with Richie I explained that petrol was blowing out the top, he rightly said this could be due to water backing up, and it was!

The engine had no power, sounded like a bag of bolts and gave out several loud back fires. It was more the noise of the engine that made me think I had killed it.
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: derek west on September 15, 2011, 01:07:49 pm
so can we call you rodders from now on ;D
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: AshWhite on September 15, 2011, 01:13:04 pm
After my conversation with Richie I explained that petrol was blowing out the top, he rightly said this could be due to water backing up, and it was!

The engine had no power, sounded like a bag of bolts and gave out several loud back fires. It was more the noise of the engine that made me think I had killed it.

You mean they're NOT supposed to sound like that? eek!  :o
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: Paul Moss on September 15, 2011, 02:13:30 pm
Guys with trucks, just join truckmounters for god sake  ;)
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: Andrew Briscoe on September 15, 2011, 02:15:52 pm
Justin you plonker,
you owe me the price of a mobile phone call  ;D

Glad to hear you got it sorted.

Andrew
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: Dave_Lee on September 15, 2011, 03:50:22 pm
After my conversation with Richie I explained that petrol was blowing out the top, he rightly said this could be due to water backing up, and it was!

The engine had no power, sounded like a bag of bolts and gave out several loud back fires. It was more the noise of the engine that made me think I had killed it.

As it's an air cooled engine and the petrol sytem is in no way conected to the water system, how does a blockage caused by scale lead to petrol blowing out of the carb or even affecting engine performance?
Dave.
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: Paul Moss on September 15, 2011, 04:09:17 pm
Dave I guess once the water flow is restricted then the engine struggles.
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: derek west on September 15, 2011, 04:27:32 pm
justin, how did you get a truckmount in the back of a yellow reliant robin? cheers delboy west ;D
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: Dave_Lee on September 15, 2011, 07:02:49 pm
Dave I guess once the water flow is restricted then the engine struggles.

I still don't get it though.
The pump would struggle, yes,  but it has a built in bypass to prevent a too high build up of pressure.
What about when you lay down the wand or stop triggering, there no water flow then but it doesn't affect the engine.
If the problem has been cured simply by de scaling, then obviously that must be it, but seems a strange one to me.
Dave.
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: John Kelly on September 16, 2011, 08:13:08 am
Dave, think you answered your own question. The pump has a bypass. It was probably blocked with scale.
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: MAX Carpets on September 16, 2011, 03:26:30 pm
I think I got off lightly there.

Mine is not to reson why, but its working like a new machine!
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: Dave_Lee on September 16, 2011, 04:47:09 pm
Glad we have soft water in Lancs, then.
Dave.
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: Neil Williams on September 16, 2011, 06:22:44 pm
Please feel free to use your own words.

You Donkey ;D
Title: Re: Please join in "Justin you plonker"
Post by: AshWhite on September 16, 2011, 06:51:51 pm
That's a compliment, isn't it??