Wand Tooling

[Cody Ransom]

I hear everyone talking about tooling there wand. How do you do that? Is there some type of equation you figure out depending on your truck mount and your wand?

 

[Mikey P]

tooling?


please be more specific.

 

[D Luke]

Do you mean jetting their tool?

 

[Cody Ransom]

Sorry that's just how everyone I've heard says it when referring to the jets/flow on the wand.

 

[Mikey P]

What machine do you run?

Do you pre vacuum
pre scrub?
do you run an inline lint filter?
do you use a rotary extractor when things get real dirty?
how many dry strokes do you usually do?

 

[Cody Ransom]

I have the El Diablo. I will vacuum if the customer hasn't. At this moment my CRB is broken so right now no. I do run an in-line filter. I use the rotary extractors when needed and I usually do one dry stroke pass.

 

[Mikey P]

So what is it that your wand is doing that your are unsatisfied with?

 

[Cody Ransom]

I want to make sure I'm getting the best dry time.

 

[hogjowl]

Then puta hole glide on it and do dry passes.

That's all you need to do.

With the exception of vacuuming EVERY job.

You need to vacuum anyway.
Don't be a goober.

 

[Mikey P]

Lower your pressure to 300 to 400 and keep your wand at 6 flow
use a 50 ft section of 2.5 vac hose.
Use an RE on heavy soil.
Dry stroke over the RE'd areas
Dont over mix your prespray thinking more chem is better.
get a water softener and use less of everything
Keep your filter clean

 

[Cody Ransom]

Okay thank you I do run 4 2 the door. So how do you calculate the flow?

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Bucket test.

 

[Mikey P]

What are you trying to calculate? How much water you are putting out during a certain period of time? Do you want to compare wand to wand or wand to RE?


Do like Lee suggests and put your tools in a bucket or kiddie pool and spray at the same psi for 30 seconds to see what is what.

 

[Able 1]

I like 400 psi and 9 flow.. The numbers at the end of your jets will tell you the flow.

With an El Diablo you have plenty of heat to get the carpet dry fast.. I think the higher flow might clean and rinse better for you..

 

[Cody Ransom]

Do you not control the flow by the jets? That's the impression I got from reading people's posts that I've seen.

 

[Able 1]

Yeah, it does.. BUT if you run 1 flow it isn't going to clean very good though it will be really dry..

What wand are you using?

 

[Lee Stockwell]

For any newbies: tool flow is calculated by totaling the last digits of each jet. The first 2 or 3 digits are the fan pattern in degrees (typically 95 or 110).

The last digits 01, 1.5, 02, 03,etc are flow at given pressures.

Raising or lowering pressure will likewise change overall flow.

The bucket test will sort this out.

 

[hogjowl]

You don't need to worry about flow, if you're still talking about your wand. (I know, Mikey got off topic with his RE comments.)

We were all flowing 12 at 600 psi for years with 1.5 to 2 hour drying times.

With a hole glide and drying passes.

 

[Able 1]

 

[Mikey P]

We were all flowing 12 at 600 psi for years with 1.5 to 2 hour drying times.

yeah, right.

 

[hogjowl]

Yeah, right.

But Lisa was Queen here back then.

 

[Mikey P]

Those were the days..



Want to buy a Vortex?

 

[Cody Ransom]

Thanks guys I didn't think it was a big deal. I have been cleaning for awhile and my dad cleaned carpets too and all we cared about was psi. I was messaging someone that's respected in our industry and he was telling me you can tool your wand and I'm like what(?) He said that it depends on your truckmount, your area, the humidity, flow psi glide, and number of jets. I didn't think much of it but I'm having a hard time getting 2 hour dry times.

 

[Mikey P]

two hour dry times don't exist if you're really cleaning..

 

[hogjowl]

Yes they do, and have for years.
Bucket head just bought a weiner TM so now the official board dry times have magically increased.

 

[Mikey P]

says you ignert.

My dry times in NV are insane, in the land of 20% humidity.



now you in the land of butt sweat and skeeters are a flat out liar if you claim to get anything under 12 hours with 12 flow.

 

[hogjowl]

Dry to the touch it 2 hours.

The touch.

Which is all that matters.

 

[Mikey P]

hogwash.

 

[hogjowl]

Weiner TM
Weiner TM

 

[Desk Jockey]

Never hear of the term related to cleaning.

Sounds like someone trying to over complicate a simple process. I agree with Marty, make another dry pass and move on.