Okay guys,
I am really curious as to what you have learned over the years of cleaning, I know some of you here have some real time behind the wand.
Some of you may even go back to the shampoo and wet vac days.
Mike you may also have some input on this as well as you have worked with a few TM in your cleaning history.
So back in the early days of cleaning were the early TM units setting there HG @ 13 or was it lower?
The reason I ask is it seems pretty standard that most stay around 13" Hg? Why? is it due to being the best number? Or is it because any more would make the wand hard too hard to move?
In today's world we have glides on our wands now....so the tm's that are saying 14,15,16" Hg doing this because of the glides ability to make the wand easier to push and pull?
Any of you out there running 16"Hg....how much have you really noticed in dry time difference vs say running at 13"hg??
I fixed my Vwtm....I broke the crank shaft bolt that held my pulley on...I had to take a leak....I put the hose down and it magically moved itself over to the baseboard and caused 100% blockage.
I had closed my free flow valve down a bit when I started this job....I must have closed it too much.
After fixing it APITA to say the least, I wanted to see what vac hit...so I cranked her up and covered/capped the vac hose....I let off at @ 18-19" of Hg.... WAY TO MUCH and why risk possibly breaking it again.
The way my throttle is set up (works off of Vacuum) it will just keep pulling,,, so I made some adjustments to my linkage and also lowered vac to 13" Hg....now this is a true 13 not like on my legend, the legend will only go up to @ 10-11"max on your regular household carpet, where the vw will hold it easily at 13" or more if I set it higher. This is at 100-125' hose run as this is my average.
Have any of you ever heard of or ran a tm that was LOWER than 13" Hg setting....like 10"HG or even less?
If so what were your dry times like??
Thanks Tom
I am really curious as to what you have learned over the years of cleaning, I know some of you here have some real time behind the wand.
Some of you may even go back to the shampoo and wet vac days.
Mike you may also have some input on this as well as you have worked with a few TM in your cleaning history.
So back in the early days of cleaning were the early TM units setting there HG @ 13 or was it lower?
The reason I ask is it seems pretty standard that most stay around 13" Hg? Why? is it due to being the best number? Or is it because any more would make the wand hard too hard to move?
In today's world we have glides on our wands now....so the tm's that are saying 14,15,16" Hg doing this because of the glides ability to make the wand easier to push and pull?
Any of you out there running 16"Hg....how much have you really noticed in dry time difference vs say running at 13"hg??
I fixed my Vwtm....I broke the crank shaft bolt that held my pulley on...I had to take a leak....I put the hose down and it magically moved itself over to the baseboard and caused 100% blockage.
I had closed my free flow valve down a bit when I started this job....I must have closed it too much.
After fixing it APITA to say the least, I wanted to see what vac hit...so I cranked her up and covered/capped the vac hose....I let off at @ 18-19" of Hg.... WAY TO MUCH and why risk possibly breaking it again.
The way my throttle is set up (works off of Vacuum) it will just keep pulling,,, so I made some adjustments to my linkage and also lowered vac to 13" Hg....now this is a true 13 not like on my legend, the legend will only go up to @ 10-11"max on your regular household carpet, where the vw will hold it easily at 13" or more if I set it higher. This is at 100-125' hose run as this is my average.
Have any of you ever heard of or ran a tm that was LOWER than 13" Hg setting....like 10"HG or even less?
If so what were your dry times like??
Thanks Tom