Dual Lance Wand

MrsStraitShot

MrsStraitShot

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Ok I just bought the 36" Legacy SS Dual Lance Wand. I need someone to break it down for me and tell me anything and EVERYTHING that I am able to do with this....PLEASE ☺ Like how would this benefit me when it comes to 2 step cleaning for fleet wash, also interior cleaning, and wood? Thanks all info is appreciated!

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Kind of obvious with two step fleet washing as you just keep going without stopping and just a few twists of the handle. We use to run two machines and one guy on each side of the trucks with a dual lance wand. We use to have varying length dual lance wands for height, buckets, trash trucks and the like. With apologies to my good friend Chris Detter, the "old school" wood guys would use a dual lance wand to lower the pressure on wood. Sometimes you need a little more than other areas and a little twist of the handle and you are good. This is how Chris did wood restoration but, nowadays you don't hear too many people using one.
 
So can I use 2chemicals at once and just switch from one to the other or how exactly do they work? I have read some info on them but it hasn't been 100% clear what I can do with it

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DunRite said:
are these wands heavy after awhile??..I use a rollover nozzle which works great!
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That is the beauty of it. They are heavy enough when you are using them they counter the weight out. Pressure pushes gun back but weight keeps it lowered. So you dont have to hold gun from flying up.
 
Dual Lance

I'll speak from how we use it for house washing and sidewalk cleaning as:

First off, a dual lance is designed to draw your chemical from a bucket (or Chem tank) when you are downstreaming. When you turn the grip down it lowers the pressure so that the chemical injector can draw the chemical from your bucket. This saves a little time in not having to change tips.

We never use the the dual lance for down streaming, we use it for edging out concrete areas like driveways, sidewalks. When we do this we do not have a chemical injector hooked up. So when we lower the pressure using the grip, we are able to "control" our pressure and lower it, which allows us to get closer to the surface and clean, with out blowing mud, mulch, rocks, etc all over the place.

We also do this for brick surfaces, stone, block, and others, that are badly stained and have not been cleaned in a long time. With a higher volume (gpm) machine you can get closer to the brick and "flush" the stains out as opposed to using "pressure" to clean and risk blowing the mortar joints out or damaging the brick It's just another great way to Soft Wash brick and other hard porous surfaces. (note: I never recommend using any pressure on Stucco or EIFS,) A Dual Lance is also great for removing graffiti as you can control the amount of pressure you are using.

You can also achieve the above without a dual lance and use a ball valve, and turn the ball valve down, but you really need experience doing it this way so you don't choke your machine and cause damage to it.

We also use them for removing gum from concrete as, once, again, we can control the pressure right from the gun and being able to control the pressure almost immediately, helps in preventing damage.

They are also great for removing dirt daubers from brick as again, you can cut the pressure down, and get right up to the surface and "flush" all the stain out.

Toni, I know your a visual person, so here are a coupple pics. One is showing one of the guy's that attended my school edging out a driveway,(notice he stands in the grass to do it) couple more of me using the dual lance around window sills and inside the patio are that a lot of dirt daubers. Another is of me showing another student how to clean brick. In that one we are using a low pressure tip and using the ball valve to control pressure.

There lot's of great uses for these dual lances, once you start using one you'll love it.

Hope this helps.
 

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Doug Rucker said:
Dual Lance

I'll speak from how we use it for house washing and sidewalk cleaning as:

First off, a dual lance is designed to draw your chemical from a bucket (or Chem tank) when you are downstreaming. When you turn the grip down it lowers the pressure so that the chemical injector can draw the chemical from your bucket. This saves a little time in not having to change tips.

We never use the the dual lance for down streaming, we use it for edging out concrete areas like driveways, sidewalks. When we do this we do not have a chemical injector hooked up. So when we lower the pressure using the grip, we are able to "control" our pressure and lower it, which allows us to get closer to the surface and clean, with out blowing mud, mulch, rocks, etc all over the place.

We also do this for brick surfaces, stone, block, and others, that are badly stained and have not been cleaned in a long time. With a higher volume (gpm) machine you can get closer to the brick and "flush" the stains out as opposed to using "pressure" to clean and risk blowing the mortar joints out or damaging the brick It's just another great way to Soft Wash brick and other hard porous surfaces. (note: I never recommend using any pressure on Stucco or EIFS,) A Dual Lance is also great for removing graffiti as you can control the amount of pressure you are using.

You can also achieve the above without a dual lance and use a ball valve, and turn the ball valve down, but you really need experience doing it this way so you don't choke your machine and cause damage to it.

We also use them for removing gum from concrete as, once, again, we can control the pressure right from the gun and being able to control the pressure almost immediately, helps in preventing damage.

They are also great for removing dirt daubers from brick as again, you can cut the pressure down, and get right up to the surface and "flush" all the stain out.

Toni, I know your a visual person, so here are a coupple pics. One is showing one of the guy's that attended my school edging out a driveway,(notice he stands in the grass to do it) couple more of me using the dual lance around window sills and inside the patio are that a lot of dirt daubers. Another is of me showing another student how to clean brick. In that one we are using a low pressure tip and using the ball valve to control pressure.

There lot's of great uses for these dual lances, once you start using one you'll love it.

Hope this helps.
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Doug Rucker you are an awesome person!!!

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Nice, Doug

Never thought of using it like that but that is the best use I have heard, I have one but don't use it because until I read this post I thought it was worthless. Guess I will give it try tomorrow.
 
Doug Rucker said:
Dual Lance

I'll speak from how we use it for house washing and sidewalk cleaning as:

First off, a dual lance is designed to draw your chemical from a bucket (or Chem tank) when you are downstreaming. When you turn the grip down it lowers the pressure so that the chemical injector can draw the chemical from your bucket. This saves a little time in not having to change tips.

We never use the the dual lance for down streaming, we use it for edging out concrete areas like driveways, sidewalks. When we do this we do not have a chemical injector hooked up. So when we lower the pressure using the grip, we are able to "control" our pressure and lower it, which allows us to get closer to the surface and clean, with out blowing mud, mulch, rocks, etc all over the place.

We also do this for brick surfaces, stone, block, and others, that are badly stained and have not been cleaned in a long time. With a higher volume (gpm) machine you can get closer to the brick and "flush" the stains out as opposed to using "pressure" to clean and risk blowing the mortar joints out or damaging the brick It's just another great way to Soft Wash brick and other hard porous surfaces. (note: I never recommend using any pressure on Stucco or EIFS,) A Dual Lance is also great for removing graffiti as you can control the amount of pressure you are using.

You can also achieve the above without a dual lance and use a ball valve, and turn the ball valve down, but you really need experience doing it this way so you don't choke your machine and cause damage to it.

We also use them for removing gum from concrete as, once, again, we can control the pressure right from the gun and being able to control the pressure almost immediately, helps in preventing damage.

They are also great for removing dirt daubers from brick as again, you can cut the pressure down, and get right up to the surface and "flush" all the stain out.

Toni, I know your a visual person, so here are a coupple pics. One is showing one of the guy's that attended my school edging out a driveway,(notice he stands in the grass to do it) couple more of me using the dual lance around window sills and inside the patio are that a lot of dirt daubers. Another is of me showing another student how to clean brick. In that one we are using a low pressure tip and using the ball valve to control pressure.

There lot's of great uses for these dual lances, once you start using one you'll love it.

Hope this helps.
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Exactly how we use the dual lance wand. It is a tool every professional pressure washer should have on their rig
 
I don't use mine for truck washing, only to use to lower pressure when needed like rinsing, popping gum or rinsing delicate surfaces and trying to not blast away stuff in the gardens or mulch.

I have not had any last more than a few months or less time before they started leaking from the side handle, tried 4 brands now I think and all start leaking soon, faster if you run housewash or other chemicals through them. I wish a vendor made a commercial strength version of the dual lance that would not start leaking within 6 months or longer, that would really be nice.
 
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