Sorry Ron, That last reply was to Matthew. He isn't comparing apples to apples, there is no comparison between hotsy equipment and Northern Tool equipment. Price a new Hotsy 20hp machine to a Northern tool 20hp machine... Big difference, less than half, but last 10 times longer. What would you buy? You can't buy a slightly used hotsy for the price of a lower quality machine.
Never had any problems at all with any of the 3 hotsy I have owned. Wouldn't own anything else. All three have always started 1st time as long as the pressure is released at the gun. But I also change fluids and run premium gas and only kerosine in all of my equipment. I have never ran diesel fuel through my burner. I take extremly good care of my equipment, because I never know when I might have to start doing this on a full time basis.I gave the only Hotsy I had away, because I had so many problems with it. It was a 1270SS, as well. I just could not keep it running.
Guy, pm me your guy that sells Landa units.
I just got a price yesterday for a new 8gpm hot water landa skid, the SLT-8 was at $17,000 which I thought was just way too much, I could almost buy 2 of the Hotsy 8gpm rigs for that price unless they went up in the last year.