i've gotten a load of emails from people i never heard of but apparently are either members here who dont post or are some lurkers, regarding very inexpensive conversions.
i put up a post in that demon thread about the demon challenge, so i guess thats where its coming from.
speakin of the demon, its probably a decent machine, quite overpriced IMO, but never the less, to each thier own!
like i mentioned, i used the tsunami from pacific steamex a bunch of years ago and thought the person who designed this thing should be shot
i just see it as a real pain the the banana!
doing a conversion is quite simple but one must be able to turn a wrench, and not try using a hammer in its place!
while high psi is good, its flow in carpet cleaning that truely does the cleaning part in the HWE style of cleaning. psi helps a lil but i take high flow anyday.
any porty with pump of 200psi or less, is easiest. 250psi and higher usually means its an adjustable pump, and that'd make the conversion a touch difficult.
assuming ya have 200 or less, and that pump is fed via solution tank w/gravity, take the feed line off of the the underneath of the supply tank, drill an appropriate size hole into the underneath of the recovery tank, and connect that hose there.
yer porty is now auto dump.
get yerself a hot side washing machine hose, 3' or 6', what ever yer preference, and fit, via an adapter of sorts, a quarter inch size quick connect, so it can fit yer porties solution line. the other end of the washer hose is female, and that gets connected to the faucet in the bathroom, or kitchen, or utility room, etc.......
that connection is very much the same like that mark donnie, or what ever his name is from the demon company as showed in his video!
you now have a high flow porty using household pressure, free hot water, and auto dump! ya'll also need to change up the wand jetting, to 005 or 006, flood jets!
no more bucketing of water, none of that nonsense!
ya may need to upgrade the vacuum to keep pace with the larger amounts of water thats being put down this way, and ya still get to use the wand to clean in the PITA tight spots that drive us all nuts!
and if ya wanna do T&G or other hard surfaces, simply add a small pressure washer like a kaercher, or the like, change the fitting, or use adapters, and walla, this is as portable an electric truckmount, as portable can get. and the guys that use LG's or some other source off add on heat, can rule and run with any TM on the market.
some of you guys are probably much handier than i am.
i know jeff is, and mike m. they can probably do a much better set-up then i can. pics of thier handy work is online here somewhere!
