Greenie or Greenhorn guru... Question needs answered TONIGHT

[B&BGaryC]

I need to replace my jets for a cleaning job tonight. I had 4 11002's

My Disty only had 2 11002's and 2 11003's....

How should I put those in? The 3's on the outside or inside?

Or should I just try to salvage my best two jets and run all 11002's?

 

[Ron Lippold]

just run all 4 002s or you will have streaks

 

[B&BGaryC]

Hmm... I just got off the phone with greenie and he told me to put the 03's in the middle....


BTW, green glides customer support rocks.

 

[John Watson]

are they SS or Brass?

Why are you changing them???

just change the worst of your 2 till you can replace the other 2 Keep them all the same or like Ronny said You will be streaky...

 

[TimP]

I remember when he got his greenhorn....I wouldn't think he needs to change them. But then again I don't know how much cleaning he's done. My next set of jets will be 03's.....

 

[Greenie]

For whatever reason is current 02s are streaking pretty bad, bad enough I don't think there are two good ones to salvage, I wouldn't normally recommend mixed jetting, but after doing some brief testing I noticed the 03s in the middle didn't affect spray pattern as much as you might think on the 12" wand, so I said put em in the middle, get er done, and replace when time permits.

 

[TimP]

Did he try cleaning the jets and filter out? I'm sure he has if he's going to replace.....I guess he's just ran enough water through to wear em out?

 

[B&BGaryC]

It took me 3 hours to clean a nasty Nylon Berber because I was leaving 2 inch dirt strips through the traffic areas. I finally figured out a creative overlap pattern... But it was seriously like night and day. All through the carpet there were brown and white stripes. At first I thought I had something plugged, took my glide off, fished the hairball out but it didn't make any difference.

 

[Dolly Llama]

I was leaving 2 inch dirt strips through the traffic areas.

that sounds like "fouled" jet, not a worn one.

forgive me for asking the obvious, Gary, but you did trigger the wand and look at the jet spray pattern, right?

a worn jet generally leaves a "cleaner" spot on loop piles/berbers and a pile distortion on some cut piles


..L.T.A.

 

[KevinD]

Straight out cleaning, put the 03's in the middle.

If you run into a job with filtration soiling move the 03's to each end for more flushing power.

Then order 2 new jets of your choice.

 

[Jimmy L]

Get some SS jets they last alot longer.

 

[B&BGaryC]

I was leaving 2 inch dirt strips through the traffic areas.

that sounds like "fouled" jet, not a worn one.

forgive me for asking the obvious, Gary, but you did trigger the wand and look at the jet spray pattern, right?

a worn jet generally leaves a "cleaner" spot on loop piles/berbers and a pile distortion on some cut piles


..L.T.A.

I guess I have only really used brass before, and whenever a brass gets fouled I end up ruining it trying to unplug it....

Plus I wanted to jet up to twelve flow... Micah kinda talked me out of it, so I tried to get the 02's... Went all 03's today. I only cleaned cut pile nylon today, so I can't really know for sure how my dry times were affected because everything was bone dry when I left.

I figured at least 1 jet was no good, if not two... and if I was wrong, I would have some back-ups like somebody had suggested I carry.

I guess somewhere along the line I got confused as to why I wanted to replace all the jets with new ones and when I got handed a mixed set my brain became flatulent.


Any way you slice it, greenglides has the best customer support. I have never actually asked Jeff a question during business hours, and he has never complained, even though they can be stupid questions.