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Certainly appreciate the
opportunity
to be able to
talk about our equipment and talk about some of the the basic
... maintenance and general up keep of the equipment.
This particular machine is something that is commonly used is our Boost
Focus II L20 Boost this is our
oscillating scrubbing technology.
This particular machine is a fourteen and a half gallon solution, fourteen and a half gallon recovery
this is the most commonly sold scrubber that we make.
The nice thing about this is the ease of use.
It's a one touch cleaning
but it's also very very simple to maintain
and take care of.
What we have
is we have our solution tank
this is again this is a fourteen and a half gallon solution tank on the back of
the machine there's a dump hose you simply
pull off the hose
when you're done
and you can clean out the unit accordingly...
it's really vitally important
that again when these machines are being used they're always cleaned and maintained
... afterwards no exeption...
... and it's again very very simple to do.
If for whatever reason
it's necessary to take this lid off and it it's it's easy to there's a
a little *** here simply flip you can replace the gasket whatever the case
as far as a maintenance to this
especially if you are picking up anything kostic this is why it is very very important
whether the degreaser or the stripper
you want to make sure this is all rinsed off
thoroughly and that this rubber is always soft and pliable.
If its...
if the the harsh chemical residues is left on here and never rinsed off
this is going to get dry
and cracked
and brittle
and you'll lose the integrity of the vacuum.
... What I'll do occasionally is that I might put ...
maybe a little bit of patroleum
jelly something along that all those lines to keep this nice and moist
it starts to get a little dried out
it should be soft and pliable at all times.
... We have a simple ball float system inside this tank
and when the machine fills up
what happens
that will automatically shut itself off
the vacuum motor is in inverted
in the bottom of this tank
so the
the air... the hot air exhaust up this will shut itself off
so that water doesn't get back down inside the vacuum motors that that'll happens
automatically so I rinse off this whole assembly
and so nothing really accumulates.
Also, there is a hole
were on sticking my finger
that is the entry point for all the dirty solution coming up from the squeegee
on occasion, perhaps once a month, I'll take a hose... take the machine outside whatever the
case
drop the hose and back flush out my squeegee...
So that will pick up and accumulation
... that
might have occurred.
So, any questions so far?
With
the wet acid batteries your going to pull in the
neighborhood of about three three-and-a-half years of life out of the
batteries...
if you do not check
the water levels in there
you'll get
half of that life span...
the most expensive part of this machine are these batteries.
What I do is
and this is very important with the
...
wet acid batteries in this particular unit is wet acid
and I believe that one there might be AGM...
... that which is all
glass matted.
and those are all maintenance free batteries (AGM).
...
This is a wet acid
system
and for safety purposes, and I am
not doing it,
but you should have gloves, when you are opening up these lids...
vitally important with these batteries (the wet acid batteries)
they need to be checked on a weekly basis...
cannot stress that enough.
you open up these lids and you look down inside the throats and you most
importantly want to make sure that the plates are covered
distilled water is what you're
wanting to use
we don't have distilled water
use bottled water
waters is water at the end of the day you need to have something in there - worst-case
scenario is that these plates get exposed
they get exposed the batteries are damaged
you loose life and runtime out of them.
I'd never fill 'em up all the way to the top people look at their thing that
their low
there's a throat...
the levels of only come up to the bottom of the throat
because if you were to top these off and then plug it in
it would expand and come out the top.
Vacuum motor, as I was saying, is embedded
in the recovery tank.
So for noise levels this machine is rated for pprox 65 decibels so it's very
quiet.
You have this filter here... you just want to make sure this stays
nice and clean...
very simple.
the ...
this is the
battery
compartment.
Once a month
and if this is done once a month,
it's never an issue we have an inline solution filter
what we do in order to check this and that's a capture all
on the machines
and what it does is that it prevents
clogging up up towards where the water comes out on the scrub decks.
And, what you do you simply
turn this blue valve... it shuts off the solution flow so we can have in
this particular case we have a site was on the back of the machine
and it shows we have approx 6 gallons of water in here.
I close ... I just shut off the valve
and I unscrew this
...
and I pull this out
and I have a little mesh filter inside
once a month
I make sure that this, and you can see I have some accumulation there
right now.
I make sure that this is completely clear because what happens if
this gets clogged up water will not pass through
and so if you hear the complaint
from your your folks that
no water is coming out
ninety nine times out of a hundred this is where it is at.
And so I am not going to open this up... so if I was to open this up water would come gushing out.
So what I do is clean this out and
I put this back in ...
nothing more
than thumb tight...
and I open up the valve
and I got my solution flow again.
The squeegees...
the squeegees are all the same regardless of machine
on how they are maintained...
and how you
get the best
possible edge on them.
What we have...
this is a
what is called a breakaway sweegee
they're all designed the same way
nothing more than thumb tight when it's put on the machine
they also have ***
you pop these flanges
the inside blade is slotted to enhance the vacuum flow
the outside blade is the one that is going to take all of the abuse.
Edge one, edge two, edge three, edge four so I can flip this outside blade four times.
I can flip this also but this is never
an issue it's just the outside blade that is ever the problem...
so I pull this back...
this hasn't been done in a while
when this is no longer cutting
I flip and rotate
additionally, and what I do, when I piece it all back together... nice thing
about this is no tools necessary to do this.
Just clip this like so
and lock it right back into shape...
that's how you do that
this simply goes back on the assembly
like so...
and again nothing
more than thumb tight.
Now, there's a little *** on the back of the machine...
this little black ***
that I am pointing at...
that will adjust the pitch of the squeegee
so when I turn this on....
what I am looking for...
is a nice uniform flat edge all the way across...
if this at the assembly was to get knocked out of whack
I would drop the squeegee down
and i can adjust the pitch off of that ***.
You just simply pull the pad off
and at the end of each shift...
pull of the pad...
so that it's inspected
so that they're using a clean pad
everytime.
Whether it's a white pad
or it's a red pad whatever the case.
To put this on is simple
just simply
lineup like so
just start it on the one end
and then once you drop the deck down ... it finds it.