bucket choices?

[GP Infinity]

I find wheels annoying personally. I use buckets at my house, but my dad has the yellow griots bucket at his house,we dont live in the flat lands, and I find myself chasing the bucket down the hill way too much.

Think of it as an aerobic adventure.....



Dana

 

[jerry@robs]

When you put the car wash in small bucket, it never seems to get enough water in it before the suds overflow. Not a problem with the five gallon bucket. Actually use about 2.5 gallons of water. Using the two bucket method your rinse bucket has a lot more water to rinse it. Use a third bucket and fill enough to where you can lift it, pour onto the car and you have sheeting like none other.

Same sentiment, a 2 gallon bucket is too small for the suds... I pretty much use the same amount of water everytime, but the suds (more often than not) occupies half of the bucket...

 

[imported_Smoker]

I use the celebrated 'Double Bucket' I found at Lowes on one of my detailing equipment explorations.



Its called a Rubbermaid 'Brute' Double Bucket and holds 2 1/2 gallons either side.



Only problem is its so big you can only fill it up in the bath.



http://www.rubbermaidcommercial.com/user/pages/products.jsp?rcpno=2628



Mines red not grey, but apart from that, identical.

 

[imported_phareous]

This thread is a little old but I wanted to add what I got in case anyone sees this later. I went with two 5-gallon buckets from usplastic.com...one green and one red. Then I got two inserts (red and black) from buygritguard.com. With the two color buckets I can easily tell the difference between wash and rinse, and if I want to buy any more buckets later, I can grab some white ones locally. The drawback is it would be hard to see dirt in the colored buckets but since I got the grit guard I'm not too concerned about that. Also I had wanted 3 1/2 gallon but nobody seems to make colored ones that I can find, and well it will be better with 5 anyway so the suds won't overflow as easily. It would be cool to have casters but they are too expensive for me ($20 minimum)...likewise the Griot's looked interesting but way too costly for me (I'd rather put the money into other things than a bucket). All total is like $55...($5.50 a bucket, $15 an insert, plus shipping, etc.)

 

[rstype]

I use white 5-gallon buckets that I get from a friend. He owns a sushi place... so the buckets smell like the Japanese ginger it once carried.







Anyone still line the bottom of their buckets with chicken wire?

 

[Spilchy]

I use two $5 5 gallon paint buckets from Home Depot. They are heavy duty plastic. Works great. The two bucket, double dunk method.



I don't understand that guard thingy at the bottom. Just don't dunk your mitt all the way to the bottom and you won't get little flecks on your mitt. You can use a $.02 piece of chicken wire and put at the bottom and it'll do the same thing IMHO. In any regard, your're bound to get some stuff on your mitt.