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Pre-Soaking and Hot Water Rinsing

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What happens here

Begin by applying soap to the dirty equipment using cold water (burner off) or warm water at around 135°F. It is important not to use excessively hot water when applying detergent, as this does not make the soap more effective. Once the detergent has been applied, switch the burner on and increase the temperature to 180°F. At this temperature, the hot water will effectively melt away grease and grime without simply smearing it. The cleaning demonstration is performed on a yellow SDLG L918F loader and a Bobcat 325 excavator.

Goal: Effectively remove tough grease and grime using detergent and hot water.

Tools and materials

  • Detergent — Pre-soaking the equipment
  • Excavator Bobcat 325 — Equipment being cleaned
  • Pressure Washer Hotsy — Applying soap and hot water rinsing
  • Snowplow Arctic S-Pusher — Attachment being cleaned
  • Turbo Nozzle — Effectively cleaning crevices and caked-on grime
  • Yellow Loader SDLG L918F — Equipment being cleaned

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all right well let's fire it up then all right will it come off so you say you salt first yes you dry soap the machine yeah I'm just applying that cold water right now you want to flip the burner on yeah [Applause] [Music] you don't want to go much hotter when you're applying detergent that's what you're doing right now so how long do you pre-sulk it for here so right now the whole hundred for the hole is loaded with detergent now so now I'm going to let go of this trigger yeah and just squeeze this because it's going to come out at high pressure now so you'll see I wish you guys could be here and smell that that is such a good smelling yeah soap I'm gonna just run it for a minute I wanted the burner to get really hot so okay so here's a couple key takeaways you do the salt at 135 degrees not any hotter because it doesn't make the soap better but once you're done soaping it turn your burner up to 180 degrees once you hit 180 degrees that's where the grease will melt off below 180 degrees it'll just smear but at 180 you're done foreign [Applause] some of this stuff has been stuck on my machine for the last two years so it's not going to come off without a fight but once that hot water starts to warm up the surface temperature of that cold unit it starts to really make a difference we were in low pressure with the soul yep 130 130. I mean low temp low temp and then as soon as you turn it up to 180 that stuff just started to disappear but one one note of common practice when washing though is if you're washing like Vehicles you always cold rents but since we're washing something that's really gnarly the paint you know we're not super concerned about the Finish yeah we're gonna rinse with hot water then to help break down the stuff that's stuck to the paint even more what but then after the end are we supposed to cold rinse we well we don't need to on something like this but if it was a truck yes do your pre-spray on your wheel wells knock the Heavies off you're going to soap it down and then you're gonna switch to cold water to rinse why the reason why because cold water rinses better it allows the soap to sheet off better oh nope okay so what this does stand is it real it's a zero degree but it spins so a crew is when you hit crevices like this right here it creates kind of a cone and allows that water then to stay in that cone so you don't get a lot of Splash bath so here all this demonstrated foreign [Music] nozzle tip and it's worth every penny and if we…

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