Foaming Lance Attachment with Common Chems

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valley pressure wash

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What does anyone suggest, I am looking to purchase a AR FL803 Foaming Lance Attachment to use as my main chemical applicator for cleaning the hoods and fans. Currently we are using these http://www.homedepot.com/p/RL-Flo-Master-4-pt-Hand-Sprayer-56HD/100164531#.UiDQbTZvCDg which this chem http://www.chemcorchemical.com/products/kitchencare/kitchencaremsds/ovenandgrillcleanerhdmsds.pdf is mixed in at a maybe 30%chem to 70%water and recently added a squirt of dawn ultra blue. This is applied as the main mix to cut the grease, I then hit them with the razor scraper and stainless steel wool. Would switching to the lance attachment and say perhaps Super Doug or Smoke House FS provide me with a more desirable cleaning product and experience. On the other side, can buying Laurox Lo (surfactact) and adding that to a caustic bead mix say 6oz dry per gallon and applying that with this sprayer provide me a decent experience? Sorry for the many random questions.

Secondly, after gaining access to some top secret design schematics from a good foaming company starting with Laf, would I be happier just building a stainless steel product that resembles theirs on their instructions page? Seems simple as can be. Either way there is another blueprint I uncovered from a post by Ron about a two hose setup using pepsi canisters. Is that a pun or something real such as a co2 tank?

Thank you for your support and I appreciate everyone's advice.

-Manuel
 
A lot of guys used those old pepsi soda kegs but the strong chemicals ate through the stainless and others had problems as stainless fittings are expensive so brass and steel were used but the chems ate them up and you don't want to be around a pressurized keg full of caustic based chemicals when it leaks or bursts, those chemicals can not only scar you badly for life but blind you easily (in seconds or less) but also damage your lungs permanently or affect you in other very bad ways.

I made one of those soda kegs but even with milder chemicals for other uses, they did not seem to last long at all, with the hood cleaner chemicals it would eat through them even faster.

The foam works on the mild or little bit of grease in those systems, for the thicker grease or really baked on, carbonized stuff you will just have to scrape then use chemicals.

I would get with some of the guys with lots of experience and go with them to see how they tackle those hard jobs because foaming will not do as much as you hope it will and most of those guys scrape, scrape and more scraping then use some cheimicals, not the other way around.

There might be some guys that will let you go out with them to help you but you would have to find someone out of your work area as they are protective of their knowledge they have accumulated over the years and don't want their competition to know how they do things.

I would not use those little sprayers, you have to pump them too much so I quit using them after a short time.

I would only use professionally made products for hood cleaning as there have been many, many discussions here on PWI over the years on what many guys use and it seems that many try to make their own but seem to end up buying what works, they talk about that stuff in the older threads, not a whole lot these days.

I don't do hood cleaning but have seen some done in the past and decided that is something that I did not want to do, just personal preference.

There are great people out there doing hoods, I would try to contact them and see if they would be willing to help you or if you can work something out with them.

Good luck.
 
These produce really good foam.
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http://www.suttner.com/products/Details.cfm?PID=76&CID=4
 
valley pressure wash said:
What does anyone suggest...Wide variety of scrapers and a grinder to maintain them. Magnetic scrapper is a game changer. as far as surfactants I've settled on to caustic base surfactants (glycerol). And the co2 cannister is no punn but there are many ways to foam each has it's place I presume, good luck on you journey I know it can be frustrating.
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Thank you for your input everyone, ive been digging up more older threads on various designs and what not. but for reference on what I already have in my collection of tools, scrapers consist of a wide variety, http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=razor+scraper roughly 30ish of the blade holder on the left and maybe 15 or so of the multi position on the right so I dont have to slow down switching blades when I hit a screw or raised metal that would then hang and scratch the stainless. I also have pretty much x5 every scraper on this page here which i took the time to sharpen to a fine edge to always have a easy cut... http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=putty+knife including 3"-7" floor razor scrapers and also a heat gun which ill use on some scrapers to heat and cut grease like butter...a trick the greaser I took his clients over taught me, also have the braided twisted wire cups and osculating multifunction tool with the scraper which I use for around circular wok cones for burnt on carbon but yeah also have a mag scraper and duct spinner.... Im sure im missing some tools in the trailer I recently started using. The issue was not getting the tough grease other companies never cleaned out of the way.. it was just switching to a new all around rinse chem instead with a more proper way to evenly apply said chem for the rinse down such as the way you evenly apply foam vs the terrible runny process my hand held pump ups are doing which dry's out in a few minuets before a proper dwell time is achieved.

On a side note: Some members have made post's dating back to 2008... allot of good diy info on those posts! You guys are dedicated no doubt. =)
 
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Had little luck with stuff from Harbor Freight myself.
 
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