couple questions:
How do you haul your cimex? I hate leaving a machine sit on pads/brushes, but thats the only way you can make it set still in trailer, or can you lay it down on its back?

Is there anyplace you can get brown or black pads for it or do you have to cut your own?

Thanks,
Brian

i always haul mine upright, sitting on the pads (never just the pad drivers). why do you hate that?

black stripping pads for Cimex here : http://www.excellent-supply.com/proddetail.asp?prod=Strip%5FPads&cat=13

thanx --- Derek.

Most bearings are not made to withstand end thrust. Also knocks seals out if bearing loose at all. To many years of farming I guess.

Thanks,

Brian

Bungy cords. A cleaner without bungy cords is like a soldier without a gun.
Most trucks have places to hook bungy cords. If not - make some. A bungy around the cimex, a bungy around the vacuum cleaner, a bungy on the vacuum to hold the coiled up electric cord (it will hold the cord better than the hooks and it takes less time to coil up the electric cord than to wrap it around the hooks - the electric cord goes behind the bungy cord - use your imagination, a bungy around the sprayer to hold the sprayer wand in place, so it doesn't get stepped on and such
(you can also tape a tube onto the sprayer in which to place the sprayer wand - I've done that also.)
There's no end to you what you can do with bungys to make your job easier, if you just think about it.
A bungy to hold HWE hoses so they won't go back down the stairs, etc.
What else do you use bungy cords for? I'd like to hear about them.
A bungy to hold my truck together, a bungy to keep the back door partially closed when the load is too long for my van, a bungy to.....

If you don't want to lay it flat, get a couple of wheel chocks to keep the head still along with bungees.

I had it bungy corded, same as you with them. But with head flipped back, it wants to roll side to side. Guess I'll leave it on the pads to haul it.

thanks,
Brian

I’m reading you guys post and its not making any since, I never have a problem with mine moving; then I realized mine has a solid bell housing all the way around it where as you guys only have a skirt on the front (I know, I know I’m kinda slow). Something you might consider, take a 4X4 cut it to about 18 – 20”. If you have a band saw it would help a lot, if not you could try using a precipitating saw and cut out a semi circle out of one side of the 4X4 so that you make a cradle to rest the back side of the deck in. At that point you could put a piece of 3/8 or 1/2 plywood on either side to keep the head in the semi circle cradle. At that point you could put a cross beam at either end so that it doesn’t totter back and forth. You could also come up with something similar just using 2X4s. If you have a wood floor in your truck or in your trailer you could just put blocks right on the floor to hold it, I know that’s what a few people do with them. If you have to change the configuration from time to time of your truck and don’t want permanent blocks you might try what I did. Build your blocks in what ever shape or size you want them. When you’re done go to HD and get what I can only describe as an old fashion gate hinge pin. This thing will be about ½ inch thick, bent at a 90 with one end that’s got wood threads and the other end has a smooth post. That’s the male part of the hinge. Then normally you’d put the female part into the gate, but instead what you do is through away the female part because you’re not gonna need it. Put the hinge pin into either end of your block with the smooth post sticking straight down. You’re going to use that as a pin that holds the block into the floor. Now drill yourself ½ inch (or there abouts) holes into your floor that correspond with the pins sticking down out of your blocks. If you make a series of holes spaced maybe 6 inches apart you now have an adjustable block. You can do the same type of things for making wheel chocks for machines or other equipment. ((Dose any of that make since? I hope I explained it well enough.))

David Gelinas
Marbleguy

so from all that stuff, what I'm getting is that its NOT good to haul it setting on the pads?

so whats different that yours has a full skirt?

Brian

Mine is for marble polishing, turns at 880RPMs, has a 2 HP motor and weighs about 5 LBS more. And yes, I agree, it’s probably not a good idea to transport it with the head down.

David Gelinas
Marbleguy

Brian -
Try this - store your Cimex in the back corner next to the back door. Strap the Cimex in so that the bungee cord is pulling the Cimex into that corner (the last thing you do is close the back door after you've strapped the Cimex in.
That's where I put my Cimex and it never moves from that back corner.