Dr Strange love....

Pat Norman

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.
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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 ?
 
Pat Norman said:
I suppose Larry will have a ball with this talking about 24" lances and tools I'll use and keeping the tube in and nipples. Sorry about all the inuindo...[emoji2]
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Larry Who??


Doug Rucker
Clean and Green Solutions
Pressure Washing Roof Cleaning School
Call or Text 281.883.8470
 
Have you done a test to see if with the 50 orifice nozzle it will pull a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio?

This is an interesting idea.
 
I use a piece of 3/4" pvc pipe in the 5 gallon buckets, I slide the chemical hose for the X-Jet or downstream injector through the pipe and the end is sticking out a couple inches at the bottom so the pipe holds it down on the floor of the bucket, works great all the time.

If you had one of those 5 gallon pails with the lid that has threads, you can put a hose barb in each side and a hose down inside and if needed, a pice of pvc pipe to help keep the hose straight down. OR

You can just get a cap, drill it out about the same diameter of the pvc pipe and just slide the pvc pipe into the hole so it is a tight fit and if the pail were to tip over, it would not be pouring out as fast as without the cap. I would use a hand truck and use a bungee cord or ratchet strap to secure the pail to the hand truck so it would not fall over and just wheel it around instead of carrying it. I would also use more than 50' of chemical hose so you don't have to move the bucket around as much.

Good luck.
 
What Johnson said...that's exactly what I did! I had extra ss plugs and took em to a welder. He greased the plugs good before welding so no splatter would stick to the plug where it goes in the QC. That was to let me have a zero a five a fifteen a 25 and a 40 degree fan on each size orifice I use except on my high pressure orifice I don't want a zero in my helps hands. Instead on my high pressure set I have a 60 degree soap nozzle for flatwork i/o a Zorro tip.
 
Christopher said:
Have you done a test to see if with the 50 orifice nozzle it will pull a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio?

This is an interesting idea.
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no I will test it and reply. I'm pretty sure it won't pull quite as strong with the wand attached but I bet its close. I only did the finger over the barb test haha and it sucked on my finger pretty good!
 
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