Industry Acronyms - Add to the List

[Blue Monarch]

This could help some of the new guys. Keep on topic or it goes byebye.

I'll start with one....

APO = Automatic Pump Out

 

[Brian L]

PTO - Power take-off

 

[Desk Jockey]

OP= Oscillating Pad

 

[Larry B]

Bawb = bob vawter

:wink:


QC = Quick Connect

GH = GreenHorn

B&S = Bait & Switch

CC = Carpet Cleaner

 

[Guest]

Bob's new steam genie = old, used steam genie

WC = Water Claw

WD = Water Damage

Mrs. Piffleton = customer

 

[Brian L]

RTU = Ready to use

 

[Mark Imbesi]

HWE = Hot Water Extraction

VLM = Very Low Moisture

ATW = At The Wand

Odin = Terry Brevik

 

[Dominick Cassano]

BDCC

 

[Larry B]

BDCC

I just looked at this today

Broke
Dick
Carpet
Cleaner

 

[harryhides]

It's Q/D here - Quick disconnect.

Some manufacturers and suppliers.
BP = Bridgepoint
JD = JonDon
WM = White Magic
HM = Hydramaster
V = Vortex
AT = Aerotech

and the well named - ACE

 

[Mikey P]

MB= Mikey's Board.

 

[Greenie]

CDS=Clutch Drive System Truck Mount
GG=GreenGlide
GGG=Genuine GreenGlide
GGCVTiW=GreenGlided Checkvalved Titanium Wand
GH=Greenhorn wand
BG=Before Glide
AG=After Glide
Disty=Distributor/Supplier
JJ=JudsonJuice
TM=Truck Mount
PF=Pool Filter
ILF=Inline Filter
AC=armor class
HP=hit points

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

IDGAS = I Don't Give a Shit








Marty on Bruce's computer

 

[Jim Martin]

Marty..........SOL...........Shit out of Luck

 

[Bob Foster]

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[Ron Lippold]

mdfat anyone remember

 

[vincent]

bshlb

bait switchin harry little bastard.

 

[John LaBarbera]

DAP=Dumb Ass Post

TAs = Traffic Areas
QC = Quick Connect

LR = Living Room
DR = Dining Room
BR = Bedroom

YP = Yellow Pages
KAD = Kool-Aid Drinker

175 = Rotary Machine running at 175 and also possibly higher if it's a dual speed
CRB = Counter Rotating Brush as in Sibo, Whittaker, Icapsol
OP = Oscillating Pad
Dehum = Dehumidifier
Snail = Snail shaped air mover
HF = Hydoforce

MF MikeFest
ATM = Temperature of Water at the Machine as it leaves going through a solution hose
ATW = Temperature of Water at the Wand

DP = Dew Point
RH = Relative Humidity

RTU = Ready To Use
WD = Water Damage

Wand Jet nomenclature
first three digits = degrees of spray last two digits= gallons of water per hour at 2000psi(?)
11003 = 110 degees 3 gpm

I think it's at 40 or 45 psi.

Great thread. I learn what I was afraid to ask.

Here's one

DSL dual splash lubrication

and one more

B.O.S.S. Battery operated solution sprayer.

 

[Ernie G]

OMG-I'll never remember ATS!!!

 

[Greenie]

hey john is the new sprayer ready yet the pump in the old new boss went out allready

How in the hell do you kill those pumps?
gotta be the solvent content?

 

[Larry B]

Whats VBJ ?


Why was my post removed?


DALMAM?

 

[FB7777]

CFM ..... cubic feet/ minute

POG...... Portable only guy

BANE..... Barely Any Noticeable Extraction

 

[Becker]

BJ= Tip

 

[steve frasier]

LMBFDBCCAO

laughing my big fat broke dick carpet cleaning ass off

 

[Greenie]

OMOG=One method only guy
Can't forget that one from the BlueBoard days.

 

[Mikey P]

VAT= Vortex & Aero Tech big type truck

 

[Brian R]

And the fitting one

DAT

I didn't see that one posted.

 

[The Preacher]

Encap/crystalize = Shampoo

 

[Leslie Judson Jones]

TMP

TRUCK MOUNT PATENT


WP

WAND PATENT


DWP

DRAG WAND PATENT

PP

PORTABLE PATENT

VP

VACUUM PATENT

 

[Dolly Llama]

f last two digits= gallons of water per hour at 2000psi(?)
11003 = 110 degees 3 gpm

I think it's at 40 or 45 psi.
[/quote]

it's "tenths" of a gal @ 40psi
IE; a 04 jet flows 4 tenths of a gal @ 40psi

Whether that equates to 4 GPM @ 4000psi, I donno
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GPM = gallon per minute

chem pumps and flow meters are measured in GPH = gallon per hour

CWI = carpet wand interface (where the wand meets the rug)


..L.T.A.