Pre-Soak Product for Pressure Washer

[Ricky Bobby]

Yes the MTM is great, that will give you the shaving cream suds.

I've used my Redmax EBZ7500 to blowdry the engine before and it works great but is bulky with the long hose to get the roof, etc so I don't use it on the whole car.

I am looking into 6 hp electric leaf blowers and using a concentrator nozzle from the gutter kit to blowdry.

Btw, bought the gutter cleaning kit from Ridgid for my 16 gal 5hp vac we use in the bunny room, and its the best $30 I ever invested in. I get all my gutters completely cleaned out with only using a 6 ft. ladder and no mess and cleanup on the ground. Amazing.

[TiAgX5]

Yeah, funny how I've needed the Echo gutter kit, for the intended use, for years.

Now that I'm going touchless cleaning with the X, it's ordered. Screwy priorities?

[TiAgX5]

Yeah, that turbo tip is a tiny (around 1mm) stream that swirls.

I threw that turbo lance in a workbench drawer, will stick with the vario-lance & foam lance.

[jsoto]

GD - I'll pass on watching the video.....too many GD wash techniques videos to date ;->

Hmmmmm....I'm going to have to dig around on the video.

RB. Are you familiar with a Turbo tip. Like I said.....I would not even use it to clean concrete, and I have tons of tips....

My favorite are just traditional ceramic tips, sized for the application at hand.

[Ricky Bobby]

^Well now that he has RawDetailTV its a paid subscription (and no I don't pay for it)

Yes I am familiar with the turbo tip, I actually may try it on my garage floor this weekend (been neglected for 20+ years), on a gas washer its going to be ridiculous.

However on the electrics it shouldn't be too bad. I have some lawn equipment to clean up as well, depending on how the garage floor cleaning goes, I MAY try it at a very large distance to clean up my lawn mower.

I like the traditional ceramic tips as well, I wish all PW's came with a full set of tips (soap, 0, 15, 25, 40) because its annoying when you buy a PW with a turbo tip (they call it a "bonus") and a soap tip and one high pressure tip lol

[jsoto]

I've got a 2 electrics and a gas. On the 240V electric....the turbo will do damage to crete, IMO. I'll try it this weekend with the same turbo tip on the smaller electric. Interesting debate I suppose....just need to see the video to see the technique. Maybe he's using a larger orifice turbo nozzle against the machines gpm/psi, etc. I just can't wrap my head around it re: the recommended use of it though...

[Ricky Bobby]

I'm going to email Garry and see if he can send it to you. It is an interesting concept but he did specifically say to start out approx 8 feet back, and not use it on a machine with higher psi than 1600.

Agree with you on the 240V electric machine, thats too much juice and psi. I believe he was using the turbo nozzle that comes with the Karcher machine as well in the video. Personally I don't think the turbo nozzles that come with the lower psi consumer machines are as bad as say a mid-grade gas machine.

After my tests on cleaning the floor etc to get a feel for the cleaning power vs. distance away, I may give it a whirl on the wheels and tires and shoot a video for you with my Ryobi

[jsoto]

LOL. Okay, I don't own any Karchers....
Cam Spray on the weekend details, and the other 2 are full blown commercial engines/pumps.

Regardless, I do think that preaching a turbo nozzle is DUMB and ones needs extreme prejudice to use it, as well as the knowledge/breath to make sure that that turbo nozzle is sized right for the machine specs you are using and or oversize, which would decrease it's psi.

We're beating heads here....but that's just because my 2 cents just says whhhhhhaaatt...when I hear turbo nozzle.

You can have weekend warriors running out to get turbo nozzles and just following like the GDWRM, etc without even looking at the specs/size of the nozzle relative to the machine they are using....

For those into detailing, I have searched for years to find a truely touchless method, and even with a PW, it always requires some mechanical agitation.

Maybe RB might convince me to use a Turbo Nozzle

[TiAgX5]

Four thing are required before have a CHANCE of getting into a truly touchless routine.

1) Good coat of QUALITY wax and plastic/rubber conditioner.

2) Regular washes, like weekly.

3) Serious high volume blower (I'm going with a gas 220mph Echo backpack).

4) Filtered/softened water.

[jsoto]

I just read this thread from the 1st post.
IMO/IME, u really need to try various soaps with your water conditions....
MOST will do a decent job at foaming the beejezus out of it, and it may look impressive.
Oftentimes, depending on soap, you are guaranteed at least a whole bunch of Lubricity.


I do it just because I own the damm gun, and I love love LOOOOOBRICITY

But using PH neutral soaps does not do much to dirt in the real world for me....