Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: gavinb on June 12, 2013, 12:12:08 pm
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Has anyone dismantled a wcw backpack to use as a van kit ?
Reason i ask is ive just bought a van and i have a wcw backpack spare and i have a gardiners back pack too so i was wondering if this is possible without buying a new pump new controller etc .
What is the psi of a wcw backpack pump ?
I only need to use it for a couple of weeks like this .
Any ideas suggestions ?
Cheers
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Oh well thanks for all your replies and help guys ;)
Just to let ya know I have done the above and it works perfect .
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Glad I didn't reply then as my reply would have been that I couldn't see it working.
The backpack that we have is just a low pressure pump that I believe would struggle to push water through 100 meters of minibore let along microbore.
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I used my yellow single speed wcw backpack pump and battery for about a month with 60 m of microbore without any issues.
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Cheers poshgravie .
I will see how i get on with this and see how long i can get out of it .
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just read your post .. Hows it going? still ok? the reason I ask is I gotta bit of a project goin also. I will post about it if successful. :-\
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I used my yellow single speed wcw backpack pump and battery for about a month with 60 m of microbore without any issues.
just an update to my reply, yes it worked fine as said before, however when I reverted back to using it as a backpack again the pump lasted about another month, now this could be down to prolonged use as a van mount and more strain on it with microbore or just down to the fact it was getting on to be about 5 years old.
I replaced it with a gardiners one,
Simon ;)
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Ive been using a wcw backpack to run 50mtrs minibore since early may up to now ive had no problems i only clean a few three storey and it works fine,most of the work is rural domestic plus in winter i can just disconnect it and take it indoors.