Pat Norman
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Dr Strangelove or....
Or how I stopped hating my M-Jet and learned to soft wash with it !
So I'm a die hard down streamer and have not really used my M-Jet xjet since I washed my first house and figured out I had the wrong d/s injector. Only other time I washed with it I was using a bum cheap gun that came with my pump and I didn't put 2&2 together and figure out it was a low flow trigger gun problem. I've always kept it as backup for that reason and sometimes I rinsed with it. If I had to go to a strong solution in the past I just used my roof pump. Now I don't do roofs anymore and don't currently have a dedicated softwash pump though I should and have been looking again. In the meantime I had a heavily mildewed dryvit project to do and knew I needed to go "strong". No doubt an xjet can lay down a strong solution but I always hated the high pressure. With my 8 GPM machine I normally wash with #50 nozzles and rinse with #40 or #30 nozzles to keep my pressure down. That's what I do and sell. Of course the xjet is just off the chart for me pressure wise. Until this little mod I did.
At first I tried to put the mjet on the end then with a coupler add a QC and then my modded jrod with #50 nozzles. That didn't work the water still just shot straight out the 4050 nozzle. Then I tried adding a short nipple with similar results. Finally I put the mjet on the back of a 2' lance by the gun. And voila ! Now I have a tool I will use...just got to work now on an old two wheeler and make a bucket cart and some solution to the age old keeping the tube in the bucket problem. Any tips ?
Or how I stopped hating my M-Jet and learned to soft wash with it !
So I'm a die hard down streamer and have not really used my M-Jet xjet since I washed my first house and figured out I had the wrong d/s injector. Only other time I washed with it I was using a bum cheap gun that came with my pump and I didn't put 2&2 together and figure out it was a low flow trigger gun problem. I've always kept it as backup for that reason and sometimes I rinsed with it. If I had to go to a strong solution in the past I just used my roof pump. Now I don't do roofs anymore and don't currently have a dedicated softwash pump though I should and have been looking again. In the meantime I had a heavily mildewed dryvit project to do and knew I needed to go "strong". No doubt an xjet can lay down a strong solution but I always hated the high pressure. With my 8 GPM machine I normally wash with #50 nozzles and rinse with #40 or #30 nozzles to keep my pressure down. That's what I do and sell. Of course the xjet is just off the chart for me pressure wise. Until this little mod I did.
At first I tried to put the mjet on the end then with a coupler add a QC and then my modded jrod with #50 nozzles. That didn't work the water still just shot straight out the 4050 nozzle. Then I tried adding a short nipple with similar results. Finally I put the mjet on the back of a 2' lance by the gun. And voila ! Now I have a tool I will use...just got to work now on an old two wheeler and make a bucket cart and some solution to the age old keeping the tube in the bucket problem. Any tips ?