(10-13-2012, 08:34 PM)Captain Morgan Wrote: Hi Cammo,
If you have time to kill, read my thread "first forray in encap cleaning". Some of my questions/issues with my first encap cleaning job were on this exact subject. Rick and JT were good enuf to address this issue in my thread already but you may want to read it anyway because I found the similar issues regarding cleaning ability, solution coverage ( or lack thereof), evidence of coverage (amount of foam while cleaning) are asked in yours too.
I too, used an electric sprayer on my cleaning and found it to be a problem. I didn't have any issues with inhalation of airborne spray. However, after I'd been cleaning a while, I could make a connection between the problems I was experiencing being directly related to my sprayer.
Hence, getting a solution tank and shower-fed pad driver is the best solution until I'm able to afford a Cimex. The amount of extra encap solutions wasted on that job would have probably paid for the solution tank if I had not been so short sighted.
Bill
Thanks Rick and Bill for your replies.
As I'm presently using a Taski 165 rotary and a pad driver with fibre plus pads, I was wondering how the shower feed from a tank would work as I believe the Taski tank usually needs a brush with gaps between each group of bristles. These gaps are supposed to allow the solution to spread evenly across the brush, but I understand this is not necessarily the case.
Another cleaner contacted me with the same situation and suggested to place a plug in the centre hole of the drive pad to prevent the solution only dropping down in the centre. Apparently this method allows the solution to spray out through the smaller rectangular holes just outside of the centre hole and thus distributes the solution to the edges of the pad.
Any suggestions on the type of plug required as the centre hole appears to be tapered and would require a plug 75-80mm diameter and maybe need to be glued in place?
Could anyone else offer any info on this method, as I'm very keen on purchasing a tank and start cleaning even better!
Thanks, Cammo.