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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Bob McKillop on January 17, 2007, 07:05:48 pm
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Does anyone out there use an adapted manual (Pump action)backpack sprayer for WFP?
I have been using a shurflo backpack which was brilliant until it broke. I have a van mounted system now, but would like a cheap backpack just for the odd inaccessible windows. Any advice on what/from where??
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Northern tools sell them for £35
http://www.northerntooluk.com/products.asp?partno=1105055E
Paul
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I found that trying to hold the pole upright and pump at the same time was difficult.
Why did yours break ?
Consider strapping/sticking another pump on the outside.
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try here its the same one i use http://shop.gardencentreonline.com/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=71
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Just been to clean a kids nursery the side access gates have been locked with emergency only glass bars, I had to navigate the electric trolley inside through 4 kiddie proof gates and 4 doors tables and chairs and kids - and back again, took me ages Next time I will remember to put the electric pac in. But there is a lot of glass and a handpump ( I have one) just wont do it.
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The pump keeps cutting out - got a new switch circuit, no change. bypassd the pressure switch, no change. Disconnect battery and reconnect, pump runs for about 30 secs, then cuts out. after a couple of times pump wont run at all until it has sat for a while, then repeat process.....very frustrating. I probably could get another pump for it, but I'm not very tech so thought maybe hand pump version might do as I will be using it very rarely.
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i used a handpumped backpack for a comercail job BEFORE i built all the other kit, it took 2 of us though, 1 with the backpack on and pumping, me with the 9 M unger pole fully extended :) that was the way to jump into WFP action :)
did the job for 2 cleans though, by that time had enough money to build the WFP setup i have now
:)
I stil use the handpumped for a few accounts where they have loads of steps to the rear of the house, only a few windows on each though AND 1 of the connection on the backpack leaks a little, so now i put it on a chair or table and pump till its full of preasure then clean away, saves me getting a wet back :) ( i really should try and find the leak)
it can be done for the odd few windows
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bob, i am sure jeff might know whats causing your backpack to stop working,
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Hopefully somebody will, cause I am stumped!
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OK lets all try,
Did it make any odd noises before it stopped, was it sudden, have you dismantled the electrical joints/`battery connections and put them back together.
Did the pressure drop, did it slow down ?
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have you tried running water back through the pump ( the opposite way it should go )
connect up some hose to the tap and the out-going brab of the pump, turn the tap on a little , you might have something stuck on the pumpu bit ( technical term that is ;))
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Do these manual pumps pump the water out or pump air in?
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The pressure is within the pump body, there is no pressure in the container itself.
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Bob
The pump pack that jouk has given a link to are no good for this job, they only pressurise a small chamber and will only dispense about 1 and a half LTS before you have to re pressurise the chamber.
I know this because i bought one. Dont know about the other link maybe someone can put us wise.
Cheers Jeff
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Hi did you know the shurflo backpack cuts out and starts again intermittently to let you know the battery needs charging?... it works for around 3 minutes and cuts out for 3 minutes.
Gary.
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ladders, they all work the same way am afraid, the Manual backpacks i mean. they are just diffrent shapes and colours,
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Thanks jouk, so the other link is the same.
Cheers Jeff.
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well well look what i found, this is a fairly new idea, if you buy one of these, it will save you hand pumping and filling with water, just make a connection between the hose on the sprayer, and your outlet hose, it would take seconds to fill, and your ready to go, i am sure a window cleaner here developed and showed pics to us how it work, looks like these guys have stolen his idea,
heres the link, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hudson-Pumpless-Garden-Sprayer_W0QQitemZ180073866089QQihZ008QQcategoryZ75584QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem