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LOL, here is the first of my many flatbed roof cleaning trucks. Don't laugh, she packed a mighty punch, with her gas powered John Blue 193 Pump. Bought her from a buy here pay here car lot in east Tampa, it was the best I could do, back then, since my credit was shot. LOL, I remember filling up her big tank, and she squatted on the tires. No big deal, I went and knocked on some doors, got some roofs to clean, and made enough money to have extra springs added, so she could handle the weight. This was a 4 cyl Mitsubishi homemade flatbed, would not do much over 55 mph loaded. Still, she was all I had, 20 years ago.

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OK my friends, I KNOW you are all curious as to WTF a John Blue 193 Pump is, so I will tell you. It is quite possibly, the baddest roof cleaning pump, on the planet! with a true 19.3 GPM, and capable of 220 psi, it will spray and shoot like no other roof cleaning pump I have ever had. The trouble is this, it must be rinsed as soon as the job is completed. if you allow it to miss being rinsed out quickly one time, it will fail. http://agrimart.net/cds-john-blue-19-3-gpm-poly.../...

 

Back when I was still able to clean roofs, this pump was what I used. I got from 3 to 6 months out of these before the Apple Sauce took it's toll. I was able to buy them direct from John Blue, back before they became a larger company, and merged with CDC Pumps. They cost me 385.00 each, back then, a small price to pay, IMHO. In fact, all our 3 trucks once were equipped with these, before I got suckered into trading themn out for the UDOR Pumps. That was a Huge Mistake! The UDOR Pumps did not even come close to the performance of these, and they started failing right away. That  was when I discovered and told the roof cleaning world about the air diaphragm pumps we still use today. 



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Chris    that is a cool old roof cleanning truck , Thats whats so great about the fourm , you can learn a ton , from people who have allready been through what your about  to go through, and one big thing that I cannot thank you enough is the air diphram  pump , you can trun it down to a trickel and spray that way all day ,instantly go to full power and back , never over heats , never blows a breaker , has tons more volume , can pump the love faster than you can move and spray it , over year old 125  big roofs , still works like day one , thanks again Dabber



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dabber wrote:

Chris    that is a cool old roof cleanning truck , Thats whats so great about the fourm , you can learn a ton , from people who have allready been through what your about  to go through, and one big thing that I cannot thank you enough is the air diphram  pump , you can trun it down to a trickel and spray that way all day ,instantly go to full power and back , never over heats , never blows a breaker , has tons more volume , can pump the love faster than you can move and spray it , over year old 125  big roofs , still works like day one , thanks again Dabber


 You are quite welcome my friend! 



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