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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Brendan (chem2clean) on July 05, 2012, 08:37:55 pm

Title: what you think
Post by: Brendan (chem2clean) on July 05, 2012, 08:37:55 pm: Hi,just finished a two day commercial job,7 to 8 none stop.Just cleaning the last 6 steps and the pressure drops in the hand tool and then starts back up again.Checked the psi on the machine when pressure drops and it does not move.To fecked to go play with it.I m thinking a dodgy hose connect.Its a prochem blazer.Any ideas .Thanks
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Post by: john rees on July 05, 2012, 08:44:01 pm: sounds like the filter that feeds the header tank has blocked?

John
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Post by: Brendan (chem2clean) on July 05, 2012, 09:06:53 pm: good thinking john,thanks,have not cleaned them in a while.
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Post by: Mike Halliday on July 05, 2012, 09:48:31 pm: is the header tank filling? pull the wand trigger and peer inside

might be air bleading in from a lose supply pipe
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Post by: Brendan (chem2clean) on July 05, 2012, 10:04:21 pm: thanks mike, i should have checked the header but i was dead on my feet.Do if the header was not getting water would nt the psi drop?
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Post by: Jim_77 on July 05, 2012, 10:42:52 pm: belt slipping on the pump? Checked belt tension?
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Post by: Mike Halliday on July 05, 2012, 10:48:58 pm: Quote from: chem2clean on July 05, 2012, 10:04:21 pm
thanks mike, i should have checked the header but i was dead on my feet.Do if the header was not getting water would nt the psi drop?

if its slow feeding the pump it would show a trapped pressure but keep dropping when you pull the trigger
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Post by: Brendan (chem2clean) on July 05, 2012, 10:54:57 pm: Thanks all,really should have got of my arse and had a proper look.Hate machines going down.Probably wont sleep tonight now lol