Buying a cheap hot water pressure washer.

[@johnfisher747]

That was a really well put together video, deserves more views. I’ve been looking for a used hot water pressure washer but they don’t come up very often and are usually trashed and overpriced. Anyway, thanks for sharing 👍

[@AlwaysBored123]

Thanks man I appreciate that. Yeah idk why they're so much more expensive. The only real difference is a big coil of schedule 80 steel pipe and a diesel fired burner. I guess those are costly to make though. But as long as you can find one with a good coil the rest can be replaced or repaired relatively easy.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

That's a good deal for a hot water job. I ended up building one after my brother-in-law gave me his old one with a bad pump, a plastic cam Briggs and the cart. Got a new pump and Ebayed the rest. Might have the same $ as a new one BUT a lot better stuff on it, 50 feet of non-marring 3/8ths hose on a reel, want extensions, soap cannon and a remote hookup that don't break your back. Also a fitting so I can hook it up to the hose fitting and blow it out with the compressor BUT I also run antifreeze in it too. The Vanguard out to have cranked on the 1st turn. BLESSINGS!

[@AlwaysBored123]

Wow cool. Did you get the coil/burner on ebay? Yeah antifreeze is the way to go for extended storage it seems impossible to blow all the water out. Something is up with mine it's annoying how hard it is to start.

[@Mike-01234]

You got a good deal those cost about $2500-3000 new most people don't put antifreeze in the heating coil they rust out. The cost to replace the coils is about $1500 from Landa usually means it's trashed. When you shut them off the heating coil bottom side water sits in there will rust out. The coil is heavy gauge steel so can't really make a new one easily unless you have some way to bend steel pipe lot of it. If you want to protect the coil mix up some antifreeze not the old green stuff turns to acid after 3 years you want newer suck it up from a bucket until it flows though leave it sit. Even if you blow it out the water still there bottom half of the coil pipe where it rusts out. This is why I just use the antifreeze.

[@AlwaysBored123]

Interesting. That would explain why rusty water comes out of it even after blowing it out. I'll see about running some anti freeze through it next time I need to store it in the cold.

[@barthanes1]

Seems like using one fuel source would be better. I wonder why they didn't use a diesel power plant. Maybe mount an Onan generator motor on it when the gasoline motor gets tired. Then you'd only need one fuel tank.

[@AlwaysBored123]

Diesel engines are more expensive to make but diesel burners aren't. Since there's significantly more energy in a gallon of diesel though it makes since to have both.

[@terencetyndall8596]

you paid to much the name for the switch into boiler is call a flow switch / the burner motor is 110 V so if the generator goes out you can run a extension cord to a house outlet the new ones are now 12V not the good I own one and work on then the pump you are looking at big money for replacement / on the gun use a duel won gun you can adjust the pressure better control ( with out take a bath) don't let the engine idle for a long time just pull the trigger so no pump problems

[@AlanBurnham]

It was the starter side that burned? Weird that seemed to get worse after the starter stopped cranking which should have meant that side was no longer live. The main power must have internally found a path to the frame. I've never seen that happen but solenoids are usually better protected than that mounting location seems to be.

[@AlwaysBored123]

Yeah it was definitely the starter side. Not sure what happened there. I guess the corroded terminal got hot enough to melt through the insulation and find a path to ground. I've never seen it either.

[@deankay4434]

With amperage passing the that tiny wet solenoid going to the starter. My guess is it got hot, melted the the solder out of the cable end and stuck to the frame bolt or frame. But basically a gas driven (Generator?) but gas driven high pressure pump, piped thru a hood with a coil of tubing. I would prefer stainless steel DOM tubing somehow bent in two row's then terminated to hose. The SS would be pricey and bent into two coils, one over the other can be done but last for years. Online most are single row mild steel starting at $4k. My wallet puckered tight. DK, ASE Master Tech since 78, retired,

[@rescue4712]

Do u wear ur hear muffler when u cut grass also

[@AlwaysBored123]

Yeah I wear those for nearly everything.

[@kerrygleeson4409]

Thanks for sharing great channel 🦘

[@AlwaysBored123]

Thanks for watching.

[@ericwilkinson1771]

am i right you said 750 if so i think you got robbed

[@AlwaysBored123]

That was the cheapest one I could find.