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Glen Hogan

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Just wondering what most people use for a wand. Gun style or ball valve? Are their any high end gun styles that are durable?
 
Glen Hogan said:
Just wondering what most people use for a wand. Gun style or ball valve? Are their any high end gun styles that are durable?
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I have a lot of diffent wands, dual wands for gum and dumpsters, then 3, 4, 10s for reach or off a boom lift, also just a hand gun set up for down streaming railing ect.
http://www.envirospec.com/buildcart.cfm?PN=1362 this the wand I like.
We use ball vavle for rising its a little slower but wont blow out your shoulders trying to rise with a 8gpm at 3500psi. As far a gun it has to have a min of 10gall and heat to 350.
Hey I live close to you growing up do you know Bob Hogan?
 
We use to just use the 1/4 inch coupler between the gun and the wand to switch between the surface cleaner and wands, but then I realized how much money I am spending in 1/4 stainless couplers that go bad after hundreds of switches. So I recently went directly in all my guns to wands and use ball valves at the end of the hose. I like the ball valve better because it can be used to rinse and can use it directly to the surface cleaner without a gun at all if you plumb it right. So I am hoping the expense of my ball valves now are not more than my connectors. It all depends on how much life I can get out of my ball valve. Last time I was set up with ball valves I could get 6 months out of them if I treated them correctly and did not roll up my hose by dragging the end. I walked the end to my reel and then roll up the rest.

It takes some getting use to not being able to move the gun to wand rotationally because you are screwed in. But I suppose it would feel weird if I started the opposite way.
 
AZ PowerWash Pros said:
We use to just use the 1/4 inch coupler between the gun and the wand to switch between the surface cleaner and wands, but then I realized how much money I am spending in 1/4 stainless couplers that go bad after hundreds of switches. So I recently went directly in all my guns to wands and use ball valves at the end of the hose. I like the ball valve better because it can be used to rinse and can use it directly to the surface cleaner without a gun at all if you plumb it right. So I am hoping the expense of my ball valves now are not more than my connectors. It all depends on how much life I can get out of my ball valve. Last time I was set up with ball valves I could get 6 months out of them if I treated them correctly and did not roll up my hose by dragging the end. I walked the end to my reel and then roll up the rest.

It takes some getting use to not being able to move the gun to wand rotationally because you are screwed in. But I suppose it would feel weird if I started the opposite way.
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We did the same thing but I went to the screwed in do to the hot water was blowing orings between the gun the wand.
 
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