Is there a good place to get the three way tee for the bypass injector or does it matter?
Seems like a wide range of pricing online for it so I wasn’t sure if a certain one was better.
I bought some stainless steel ones off amazon for $18 a piece. They are only rated for 2800 psi, my unloader is set to 2900 psi, I haven’t had any issues over the past two seasons. I contemplated buying the more expensive ones with higher pressure ratings, but figured since it’s after the unloader and not a closed system, it probably wasn’t as necessary.
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Might check with Russ at Southside, they put my bypass together so probably have the part
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I thought yall didnt like bypass injectors?
I’ve never used one but I was having some issues last year and was troubleshooting, and when I removed the DS injector, the flow (which I already knew would be the case) was considerably more. Not as big a deal when washing vinyl, but it seems to make a difference when washing concrete. So I’m looking at installing one and seeing if I like it. I have all the parts except the tee.
I’ll do a bucket test again but I did one with my 5 gal and there was no change in flow with the bypass on or off. I haven’t tried with my 8 gal.
It was around half to a full gallon on my 8.5 gpm pump. Not enough to make me switch for soft washing but some of the concrete around here is so bad, that I decided to start seeing what I could do to make it easier/faster to clean, and that extra bit (along with the extra pressure) seemed to help.
The gold standard DSI that dprez makes would help
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My surface cleaner starts lifting up when I have the bypass on, just drags around if it’s having to squeeze through the injector orifice
I would love to have that issue.
So turns out I had lost more pressure than I realized.
I had to replace my belts and took an opportunity to have the company I use to do an acid flush on the burner.
I had gotten down to 1700 psi at the tip.
After them working on it I am around 3k at the tip.
It was such a gradual loss that I didn’t realize how bad it was. (We’re talking a couple years. And no probs soft washing.) Cleaned over 2,000 sq ft of concrete and knocked it out in record time.
One side note, I had two belts as backups. My machine takes two. Bought at the same time from the same place. But when I put the belts on, one had more give in it than the other. Too much to try running together. So I had to buy another.
So in the future I’ll buy 3 belts with the hopes that at least two will be the same length and give.
