Water sprayer

On 8/19/2009 2:13 PM Stormin Mormon spake thus:

I'm using my Ortho "Yard Plus" lawn & garden sprayer to clean and seal a deck. All plastic except for brass wand. Has a pump top that develops decent pressure. Works pretty well.

You may want to try one of the backpack sprayers, the kind with a long lever you can pump while wearing the tank on your back. Got mine at Sam's Club (Costco, BJ's, etc) and it sprays a pretty good stream with the nozzle adjusted right. I find it less tiring than having to keep stopping and bending over to pump the garden type sprayer.

HTH,

Paul F.

Gonna try one of these (on order).

has a length of 179 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters:

That could work. The sprayer I'm using came with Roundup, but I used the 8 ounce concentrate in another device.

I did buy one of those, with an eye towards if I needed to clean a roof top AC. I never did end up using it, and still have it. Very good thought, and thank you.

Make one. Find an empty refrigerant canister of the appropriate size, and hook a hose to the valve. You can get kits to convert these to air tanks that have a Schrader valve so you can pressurize them with compressed air. If you get one with a dip tube that would be best, but if you cant find one, just invert the can to squirt water.

All of the newer refrigerant disposable cans have check valves as per government meddling for many years now. You might be able to find an old one in an old motor room somewhere that doesn't have the check valve.

TDD

And, how does one get the water into the tank? I guess you could adapt to the water hose outside your house. Most refrigerant tanks now days have a one way valve, so you can't refill them.

In any case, I did an Ebay search for 12 volt pressure washer, and found a gazoony that's billed as strong powerful stream, or gentle enough to spray a dog. I ordered one, and will test it.

I used to use them for inflating tires. Back in the old days. I always wondered if I could use a freon adaptor kit, and screw it onto a full tank, inflate more tires that way. I'm sure I could have. Before freon was dangerous, of course.

I use a pump-up herbicide sprayer to clean the cracks, then a sponge to flush a surface.

The nozzle of a sprayer is designed for the flow of herbicide you might want to apply from ten feet. If I wanted a bigger flow I'd drill the nozzle.

On 8/20/2009 4:52 AM Stormin Mormon spake thus:

So you're saying what: that freon only became dangerous by government decree?

Sheesh.

I'm not saying that freon is dangerous, even now.