Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Window Washers on February 26, 2009, 04:15:24 pm
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Can anyone upload a pic of their hose reel set up ? end of microbore fittings and end of pole hose fittings also.
I have changed mine round and is not good as water going everywhere and is doing my head in, should have left it the way it was, but as not to give up on it, I was wondering what everyone else is doing before reverting back to hosetap and male on microbore and female rectus on pole hose.
Ian
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Got no pics at the moment, but I've got the swivel elbow from Gardiners on my reel, and the Ionics hoselock fitting (the orange one) fitted the elbow with some ptfe.
End of pole hose just an O clamp to Rectus 21 fittings (male) and female on minibore.
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Got no pics at the moment, but I've got the swivel elbow from Gardiners on my reel, and the Ionics hoselock fitting (the orange one) fitted the elbow with some ptfe.
End of pole hose just an O clamp to Rectus 21 fittings (male) and female on minibore.
Tim, does your pole hose not just enmpty water all over the van
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Ian I have male connectors on my poles with females on the microbore, I do have valves on the poles though and that stops the hoses emptying.
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Ian I have male connectors on my poles with females on the microbore, I do have valves on the poles though and that stops the hoses emptying.
I dont have them no, when you say valve do you mean tap or non return valve (theres a thought)
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Ian the one's i use are the twist lock one's (compressor fittings)
(http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu184/s2none/DSC00016.jpg)
(http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu184/s2none/DSC00018.jpg)
(http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu184/s2none/DSC00019.jpg)
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Thanbks for posting pics ;)
Where do you get them from ? and how long do they last ? last question does the pole hose leaks water into van once disconnected ?
Ian
p.s any more pics guys
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Ian the conectors i got locally from compressor place and i have had the same one's that you can see in pics about 9 months now and still no probs and i don't get any leak all i do once a week is spray them with wd40 and works a treet.
ps i could leave my pump on allnight if i wanted to and would still be dry in there in the morning
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Ian the conectors i got locally from compressor place and i have had the same one's that you can see in pics about 9 months now and still no probs and i don't get any leak all i do once a week is spray them with wd40 and works a treet.
are they the sort that shuts off water like a shut off vale, or a rectus 21 fitting ?, because if they are I will have to try these out, there could be light out of this tunnel im stuck in :)
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iv got tap on end of hose end qik reless on poles ,its the one pure fredem sell to put on end of pole , i all ways take the hose end back to van rarthan draging tap back
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If you have a pole valve on your hose and keep it shut with the hose coiled up and hanging it hardly drips at all.
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yes thay are shut off connectors thay work out price wise £7.50 for the female end and £3.75 for the male but if thay last hoo cares
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Get the push fit valves from Gardiners ;)
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iv got tap on end of hose end qik reless on poles ,its the one pure fredem sell to put on end of pole , i all ways take the hose end back to van rarthan draging tap back
Thats what I was using, but was reading about others that did it the other way round, now I am either doing something very wrong or this is a very bad way of doing things, on that im keeping an open mind even though it is a royal pain in the bum and cost/costing me more than it would have keeping the same thing. ::)
The reason I changed as my guy goes through the fittings like my wife does with clothes, was trying to solve the problem but begining to think what I had before is the best it is going to get.
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Get the push fit valves from Gardiners ;)
is that a push fit tap ?, if so would that not slow things down, 2 taps to shut off all the time :-\
a non return vale I could see working is this what your talking about ftp ?
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It's pretty much the standard set up from Gardiners. It's a normal valve on the pole hose just on and off. Female Rectus on the microbore, male connector on the pole hose end.
Foolproof set up, the microbore never leaks even when disconnected and pressured up.
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I use these,they are carpet cleaning machine connectors you can find them on www.olympiccleaning.com but i got mine local,they aint cheap but are excellent and top quality all solid brass ;)
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It's pretty much the standard set up from Gardiners. It's a normal valve on the pole hose just on and off. Female Rectus on the microbore, male connector on the pole hose end.
Foolproof set up, the microbore never leaks even when disconnected and pressured up.
the end of your female what fitting is it ? because all 5 of my hoses have male thread.
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Ian the one's i use are the twist lock one's (compressor fittings)
(http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu184/s2none/DSC00016.jpg)
(http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu184/s2none/DSC00018.jpg)
(http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu184/s2none/DSC00019.jpg)
I like the look of those.
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http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/EZ-Snap_Range.html
EZ snap is what i have used for the last two years with no problems. The female ends last up to a year if you don't smack them into the concrete too often. I double up on the o clips and set them at ninety degrees to each other.
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Hi niceandclean i have tried them all and thay kept coming apart so will stay with the one's you can see because you can pull them about and the only way thay come apart is to twist them and you don't need the protector ball.
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http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/EZ-Snap_Range.html
EZ snap is what i have used for the last two years with no problems. The female ends last up to a year if you don't smack them into the concrete too often. I double up on the o clips and set them at ninety degrees to each other.
can you get a pic of the hose reel end with connecton on, as the ones I have do not fit on hose reel, do you have to use an adaper ?
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Can you not see here how it's fitted:
(http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/ezsnapendstop_copyrightGPS_do_not_use.jpg)
What size hose are you using?
8mm or 6mm?
8 on 3 reels
6 on others
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Hi niceandclean i have tried them all and thay kept coming apart so will stay with the one's you can see because you can pull them about and the only way thay come apart is to twist them and you don't need the protector ball.
Thanks, i think i will see if i can find some locally and give them a go.
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All my staff are happy with their set up and never complain. ::)
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Can you not see here how it's fitted:
(http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/ezsnapendstop_copyrightGPS_do_not_use.jpg)
What size hose are you using?
8mm or 6mm?
question for this:
if you have a tap on your pole hose, and you turn it off whilst pump is still running you disconnect then turn off pump.
At next job you turn on pump take out hose reel connect tap to fitting does it not cause pressure and making it hard to connect the 2 together ?
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The pressure isn't high enough to cause problems,.. they still click together easy enough.
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The pressure isn't high enough to cause problems,.. they still click together easy enough.
back to the suppliers again then, I have enough of the wrong parts that I need to open a shop, maybe I should take them all to the show and undercut wcw ;D
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I never turn my pump and varistream off until i've packed up at the end of the day.
Been caught out once when a seal blew on my di though. ::)