DIY X-jet

Nice work! Did you use straight SH or a mix?

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It isn’t.

Straight SH with Elemonator

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Very nice! Thanks for sharing the finding.

Two questions:

  1. Why did you drop the poly ball valve again? How did you stop soap?
  2. I’m thinking this could work right before the gun at the 3/8" line as well? What do you think? I might have to try this…
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It needs to be a little heavy or it will let papers fly around when you turn ceiling fan on

Ha ha ha ha

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Seen the pictures, great work!

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He’s right, It ain’t that heavy, this is though lol.

Can you tig weld @Hotshot

Stick only sir. Farm boys don’t have fancy smancy tig welder set ups.
Never had the opportunity to be honest.

I was looking at that gun you pieced together and thought you could make that a lot easier. Straight piece of stainless with threads tigged on each end and 3 females welded for your line and middle valve. Super easy, super cheap, will last forever.

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You know what ,I think your on to something !! When do we start mass production man ?

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That’s your project my man, Hydro-Chem’s pro-control remote soap system would be outta business lol.

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If you have a dc stick welder you can tig with it. It’ll just be scratch start.

I’ll hook you up though. Sketch a diagram and I’ll add it to my to do list. I might even hand deliver just so I can talk your old lady into doing a roundhouse on you. :smile: I’m sure we can get into enough trouble together she’ll enjoying doing it.

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If you go to Arkansas for this I’m totally down to meet up. I’ll film the roundhouse kick too.

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She is a former MMA fighter!

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Could you imagine ? lol

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Does the bypass really make that much difference to justify the added weight? Seems like it would be a lot more streamlined with a 3-way that shuts off in the middle position, and just deal with the slight obstruction in flow. And you could probably afford to have a slightly longer lance after the injector to smooth out the flow a little bit.

That gun is designed to mimic upstreaming without running chem through your pump @Infinity . That gun will apply both chems at around 600,800 psi then rinse at around 1800psi. Also both chems are controlled by the gun operator instantly through that 3 way on the gun, so no more remote, turning ball valves at the trailer,or waiting on chems to come through a 100’ of HP hose, Is it a trade off for the additional weight ? Yep, Its a heavy sucker. But we’ve saved 10,15 minutes per unit and 20% soap use. :man_shrugging:

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Do you have to swap out tips for that pressure change?

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