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clinton

Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #20 on: July 31, 2008, 09:44:29 pm »
What was the new alltec machine mark?

M.Acorn

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Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #21 on: July 31, 2008, 10:32:15 pm »
Not sure if it`s a new model he just said it`s got the 600psi pump in ,didn`t see it close up but it looked good
What goes around comes around

clinton

Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2008, 10:33:39 pm »
Thats a lot for a portie think it must have three vac motors?

ollie

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Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2008, 07:15:51 am »
I get nearly the same volume of calls from yp with a free one liner as i did with a 3k ad! Also i still get  work from the 2 year old yp with my ad in it. Not enough to justify paying again though IMO.
ollie

M.Acorn

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Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2008, 04:42:09 pm »
Clinton , the machine was the Advance with the 600psi upgrade,just looked at their site,nice looking machine and also made half the amount of noise that mine does  :(
What goes around comes around

markpowell

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Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #25 on: August 01, 2008, 05:02:38 pm »
Ollie your right, im used to hire out bouncy castles 3 years ago. I havent advertised the castles in the YP since 2004 and i am still getting calls this year, when i tell them that i no longer hire them out and when i ask them where they got our number from they say the yellow pages.
Mark

Joe H

Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #26 on: August 02, 2008, 03:00:04 pm »
Thats a lot for a portie think it must have three vac motors?
Think its twin vacs Clinton.

Back to the old chesnut - choice.......  2 vacs + pump + on board heater OR 3 vacs + pump + external heating.

Joe H

Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #27 on: August 02, 2008, 04:17:40 pm »
Yes, the Scorpion has 3 vacs (300cfm), + pump and I have an external heater but didnt use often as customers tap water was mostly sufficient.

Jim_77

Re: Yellow pages 2008/2009
« Reply #28 on: August 02, 2008, 05:59:39 pm »
It's also a little more energy efficient for you to use the hot water that their boiler has heated, rather than use their electricity to heat cold water when they already have a tank full of hot water in the house losing heat into the atmosphere ;)

BUT

(sorry to get into the heat debate again ::) )

My opinion on hot water rinsing - I often rinse with cold tap temperature water when using M-Power, but if I make a decision that the rinse needs temperature because of the soiling substance (greasy carpet for instance) then the water needs to be HOT HOT, not "hot tap" temperature.  I think, for rinse performance purposes, you may as well be using cold tap temperature unless it's REALLY hot.

I've proved this recently on a restaurant carpet where their tap water is pretty hot, It was the first time I'd cleaned it with M-Power rather than detergent so I wondered whether the cold rinsing theory would hold up.  I started rinsing with the hot tap water and it just didn't feel or look as if the rinse was shifting the crud very well.  I stopped, whacked the temperature up to 90 degrees in-tank and noticed a significant difference.

Obviously apart from rinse performance, some state that there's a difference in drying between cold and hot - I'm not convinced.  I've never had such an enlightening experience to form an opinion either way.

That 300cfm is tempting though, but the thought of having to purchase an inline heater and then all the hassle of using it, tripping over cables, extra set-up time etc... puts me off a bit.  I suppose the only answer to having a machine that does all of that internally is 3 power cables.  I run a ninja with 2 cables and sometimes it's a pain in the butt finding 2 sockets, let alone 3.