Foam guns are waaaaay too much fun!

SuperBee364

SuperBee364

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So about a week ago, I bought a John Deere 3000 psi, 2.8 gpm gas powered pressure washer. Then my wife had a baby, and I've been waiting til today to bust open the box and fire it up.



Great timing, too, cause my foam cannon attachment came today.



I went through about one gallon of some old cheap Meguairs Deep Crystal car wash soap, and through about six ounces of Zaino's car wash (Z7?) messing around with this thing. OMG, it was a blast!



Mixing one ounce of Zaino with ten ounces of water gave my car a coat of 1.5 inch thick foam. Real FOAM, too... Like the stuff you could shave with. It hit the car with a huge amount of force, and just sticks there like shaving cream. I let it sit on the car for a good five minutes, then blasted it off with the pressure washer.



My car came completely clean without ever touching it with a mitt after two good foamings. It wasn't really dirty to start with, but it had a fair layer of dust, a few water spots, and the odd dead bug.



I'll try and get some decent footage of the foam gun in use tomorrow. I'm hoping that a good layer of Zaino foam will allow me to clay my car without having to use any QD as lube. Should be a fairly good system, I hope.... foam the car, clay it, then rinse everything away.



Pics and film in the morning! :lol
 
DieselMDX said:
what type of foam gun?
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Cam Spray 527100 - Foamer Attachment - Cam Spray 527100 - Every Pressure Washer. Great Selection of Electric Pressure Washers, Gas Pressure Washers, Hot Water Pressure Washers, Cold Water Pressure Washers, & Much More!



Only complaint with it is that the stock bottle is too small. It takes less than 20 seconds to empty it. I clipped off the detergent pickup tubing from one of my old dead power washers, and stuck it in a 32 ounce bottle. Looks like it should be a pretty good replacement for the stock bottle and tube. Gonna try it out first thing tomorrow.
 
huh, those are cheaper than I thought they would be. Do you have to use these with a pressure washer? And does anyone recommend a different one thats better for some reason?
 
Well, shoot. I thought I had one more bottle of Z7. I was down to my last couple ounces, and went to grab the new bottle out of my Zaino box. Imagine my surprise when it wasn't there. So, the video below was shot with a very weak (about one ounce in 31 ounces of water) solution. The foam is still very good though, just not what I've been seeing with higher concentrations.







I'm still waiting for my CG's CW&G to get here. I placed the order early last Friday morning, and it still hasn't shipped. This is my first order with CG. Is it normal for them to take three business days before shipping an order? I hate to call and bug them if this is normal. Just anxious to get the stuff and start washing cars!



More videos to come as I try out different wash soaps...
 
That is soooooo cool!! Now are you SUPPOSED to wash the car with a mit or does a foam gun let you totally eliminated that all together?
 
qballjr13 said:
That is soooooo cool!! Now are you SUPPOSED to wash the car with a mit or does a foam gun let you totally eliminated that all together?
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Kinda depends on either the LSP you use, or your car's clear coat if there's no wax/sealant on it.



If the clear coat on my car is completely bare, I can get it completely clean without ever touching it with a mitt, sponge, or anything else, for that matter. Last winter, I let the LSP wear off my paint, and just took it to a touch-free wash. Always came away with a completely clean car.



Zaino, on the other hand, really seems to like to grab on to dust and dirt. Last night, using the foam cannon, I was able to get my car completely clean without touching it, but I think most of the Z2 is gone. I'm gonna do a complete detail on it this week (with three coats of Z2), then I'll let it get dirty and see if I can get it to come clean with just the pressure washer and foam cannon. Whatever won't come off, I'll use a Boar's Hair Brush to get instead of a mitt.



My main goal with the foam cannon/pressure washer is to remove as much of the stuff off the car as I possibly can without touching it, because anything left on the paint immediately turns into an abrasive (swirl maker) when you then run over it with a mitt or sponge.
 
ben_r_ said:
huh, those are cheaper than I thought they would be. Do you have to use these with a pressure washer? And does anyone recommend a different one thats better for some reason?
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Yup, this one has to be used with a pressure washer, and it has to have a threaded coupler to join to the high pressure gun; the Karcher quick-twist type connector won't work. The one I linked to is very similar to the one that is so popular in the UK. Autobrite (UK detail supply company) makes one with various adapters for different pressure washers, and I'm quite certain it is the same model as I linked to.



If you want serious foam, there's just no substitute for a pressure washer foam gun. The kind that doesn't use a pressure washer (like the Gilmour gun that AG sells), just aren't capable of producing this kind of foam.



There are a couple different pressure washer foam guns out there, but after doing a ton of research on them, I really think this one is the best you can get. One of the great features of it is that you can adjust the pick-up tube ratio.
 
I'm actually going to start selling one similar to this one but it's all brass.......only the end is plastic and it's adjustable. You can even do your siding with it!



I will be selling them with the trigger gun and quick disconnects for 99.95 shipped.



PM me.
 
that thing puts my autogeek foam gun to shame. I really want to see some videos of the stronger concentrations too. Of course I'm sure having a washer that beefy behind it helps. How much was the washer?
 
SuperBee,



I ordered a gallon of Citrus wash and Gloss along with some microfibers, a few weeks ago. Their website said my order was "pending" for a day, then it was updated to "processing", and 'shipped' on the second day, and

then it took 2 days to get to me in the Midwest. So, I would expect 4-5 days if what you ordered was in stock.

For me, the order arrived a day earlier than the orders I placed with AG on the same day.
 
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