BE / Whirl-A-Way Swivel

HighTide

HighTide

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I encountered something new today that has me puzzled. I replaced my BE swivel this week with a new one after the original finally broke after exactly 4 years of use. It ran great this morning as I started cleaning 20,000+ s.f. of sidewalks for a school. After 3 hours of work, I added a second 100 foot of hose. When doing this, I decided to install some brand new nozzles (15025's) instead of the 15030's that I had been using. I have a couple 5.6 gpm @ 3,500 units. By doing this the psi at the surface cleaner (after 200 ft of hose) bumped up from 3,000 psi to 3,250 and gave me a little extra kick while working further from my trailer. Shortly after installing the 15025's, the swivel started to squeal and the surface cleaner vibrated a little more. I would shut off the ball valve then turn back on, then after a few more minutes the squeal and extra vibration would come back. With this being a brand new swivel today I didn't think it needed greasing. I added a squirt of grease to it and no change. Every 10 minutes or so, the squeal and vibration would come back over the next 4 hours of use.

I don't usually run the 15025's (almost always use 15030's) but this is dirty concrete that needs a little more psi to clean good and fast. I am trying to get all this concrete plus a school administration building done this weekend and I am working by myself on this project. Anyone run into this issue before? Thanks!
 
Sounds to me like it's a bad swivel, we replaced the one on our steel eagle surface cleaner and the first time the swivel was no good and they changed it out. We have now switched to mosmatic swivels for all our surface cleaners
 
I don't know why it wants to squeal...never heard of it before. But, if it's defective, let me know and we'll get another one out Monday and get that one back for warranty.
 
I have never been a fan of the BE swivels. The older ones seem a little better but they just got cheeper and cheeper in my opinion. I would think about converting it to a Mosmatic swivel if you keep having problems or when it finally wears out. In the meantime I would take Russ up on his offer for the warranty replacement.
 
Thanks Russ for the offer! The swivel made a couple more of the squeals and vibrations on the second day morning but seemed to work fine the next 6 hours. Should it start acting up again I may just have you convert this over to the Mosmatic one and/or try the warranty route.
 
extremecleantn said:
Sounds to me like it's a bad swivel, we replaced the one on our steel eagle surface cleaner and the first time the swivel was no good and they changed it out. We have now switched to mosmatic swivels for all our surface cleaners
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Matthew, how long are the mosmatic swivels lasting you?

Just wondering as I have some swivels to change out soon and not sure if I want to go with mosmatic, whisper wash or the Steel Eagle Talon.
 
Not to hijack, but I have a BE whirl a way too and for some reason, I have never been able to get it to accept grease through the fitting. If I take the nipple off, grease goes right through the nipple, but will not go into the swivel. Anyone have an idea why it won't take grease? I literally squeezed the daylights out of my grease gun once trying to get some in there, but it just won't go in. I've never had it apart, minus taking the nipple off, and I'm stumped.
 
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