Sunday, November 18, 2007

Re: [papercreters] Re: Power Spray Washer Mixing

If you take your time and keep checking the pawn shops you can find a jewel. If you find yourself down off Market go by the Sherwin Williams Industrial Paint store and look at the Simpson Pressure washers. They are a belt drive and are designed to withstand industrial painters. New they sell for $800-1000 but I have seen them at pawn shops for $3-500 depending on conditions. These are high GPM with relatively low PSI. 5-6 GPM @ 2800 PSI.  A lot of the stuff you will see is homeowner type. If it has a commercial Honda or a C/I Briggs it will hold up. My little Landa has a 5.5 HP Briggs Commercial/Industrial engine on it and has many hours on it without any issues. When I get the time I want to build a barrel mixer with three 15 degree nozzles inside the barrel angled at 45 degrees toward the side. These would need to be on a header about 8-10 inches apart. It would need a board about 270 degrees from the header to break up the vortex. Due to the pressure I would use Stainless tubing for the header instead of pipe, I figure 30 gallons of water will be used per batch and at 5 GPM that is roughly 6 minutes per batch. This header could be built for less than $100 which is less $$ than a good quality rotary nozzle. So far this is in my head, and now it is in yours.



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