Daily Archives: July 29, 2016
Wax On–Wax Off
Since I got rained out yesterday, about 1pm today I went outside with my Karcher Pressure Washer to wash and wax the rig. It’s been awhile since I’ve have had a chance to do this. In fact checking back in the blog, it’s been exactly a year as a matter of fact, so it was about time I guess.
I really like this unit. It’s easy to put together and get back in the box, and it’s got a lot of power. It comes with two separate wands, one high power, and another one with variable power, and a method of adding wash/wax to the spray.
The only problem with this is that tank that comes with the system is too small. Although its probably large enough to do a car or a pickup, I have to refill it 3 or 4 times to do the rig.
So I came up with a better idea. The hose that goes into the tank from the washer is long enough to reach a separate larger container, so I used a half gallon pitcher to hold the wash/wax solution.
You can see the difference in size, and how it works above.
I first use the high power wand to wash down half of one side of the rig, sometimes stopping to scrub down a particular tough spot with a brush. I’ve found that the power of the spray is enough to clean the dirt off without using any type of detergent.
I go back and forth getting it as clean as possible. Next I swap to the waxing wand and using a mixture of Zip car wax, I hose down that area of the rig. And then I just let it dry. Zip Wax dries without streaking so this works out fine.
I just work way around the rig, doing each side in two halves, and the front and the rear caps.
It took me about 90 minutes with a couple of breaks in there. It was in the 90’s by then, so I occasionally would hose myself to keep cool. Well, one time I forgot which wand I was using, so I waxed myself instead.
But on another note, my head is especially shiny now.
Besides the usually nicks and chips, the rig’s 17 year old paint job still looks pretty good. The only visible problem are some patches where the clear coat is flaking off. It almost looks like it’s a patch of sunburnt skin peeling off.
I’m going to check and see if it’s possible to lightly sand the edges of the peeling and then overspray with new clear coat to seal it and stop it from spreading
About 4pm Jan and I headed into Katy to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon for dinner.
And of course this was the perfect time for my AC fan problem to rear its head again. I thought I had it fixed, but now I guess I’ll have to take it completely apart this time. The drive into Katy without AC wasn’t bad at all, just very noisy doing 70 with all the windows down.
We were meeting up at one of our favorite places, Torchy’s Tacos. A couple of their friends, Shantal and Eric and their son, joined us also. And we had a great time with everyone, not leaving for over 2 hours.
On our way home we stopped off at the Sealy Wal-Mart for a few things, and to pick up the prescriptions we called in yesterday. Then coming through Columbus, I checked out the Brookshire Bros. gas station to see the best way to get in and out Sunday morning for diesel. Shouldn’t be a problem, and we’ll hook up the toad when we’re done.
Tomorrow I’ll go down to the office and settle up on our electric bill before we leave early Sunday morning.
Thought for the Day:
What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing ‘K’ instead of ‘OK’?
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