Rinseless wash bucket heater

trashmanssd

trashmanssd

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Just a very short heads up review.

I bought a 5 gallon bucket heater to try and warm up my saved rinseless wash. This thing works very fast about 5-10 minutes and gets your bucket up to 110 degrees. Makes winter rinseless washes much more enjoyable. Its marketed for farms for keeping water for animals from freezing in the winter, I got it fro Amazon.

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Wouldn`t need that in So Cal, but I do like the sound of my wash bucket solution being 110 degrees. Might help make the cleaning a bit better.
 
The water in the bucket might be hot/warm, but when its applied to a vehicle in 15°F weather, it freezes in a VERY short time.

I`ve had the unpleasant experience of 2-bucket washing a vehicle outside on a 37°F day, knowing that an arctic cold front was coming that would drop the ambient temperature some 15° to 20°F in a short time. (Yes, Captain Obvious was too cheep to take it to the touch-less car wash like the significant other told him to do, so he thought he would save a little money!) What I did not expect was it came through about 1 hour earlier than weather forecast, and it made for an ugly frozen mess of my vehicle. I ended up removing the frozen ice droplets and sheets by wiping on tap hot water from the kitchen faucet in a bucket one panel at a time then drying it, having the vehicle in my garage. It made frozen mess on the garage floor that I ended up scraping off with a shovel. Ah, the joys of cold winter detailing in the Upper Midwest.
 
trashmanssd said:
Just a very short heads up review.

I bought a 5 gallon bucket heater to try and warm up my saved rinseless wash. This thing works very fast about 5-10 minutes and gets your bucket up to 110 degrees. Makes winter rinseless washes much more enjoyable. Its marketed for farms for keeping water for animals from freezing in the winter, I got it fro Amazon.

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Do you have a link for it on Amazon?
 
SGM2008 said:
Not sure if the forum rules allow external links, so Google “farm innovators bucket heater” and that should get you there.
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I believe they are allowed if the product is not a competing product being sold by a PBMG entity. Based on that belief, here is a link to the unit similar to the one I`ve had for quite a number of years now. It doesn`t look anything like the one the OP posted.

https://www.amazon.com/Immersion-Ge...ocphy=9026812&hvtargid=pla-556055671365&psc=1

If I am wrong about posting the link, mods will take care of the clean up.
 
Lonnie your a mad man if your doing 2 bucket wash under 40 degrees, my limit is under 50. I do rinseless in garage with heat on 65 degrees and streaming netflix on the tv.
 
trashmanssd said:
Lonnie your a mad man if your doing 2 bucket wash under 40 degrees, my limit is under 50. I do rinseless in garage with heat on 65 degrees and streaming netflix on the tv.
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True story (I told this before):
I was washing my 2003 Subaru Outback outside in January 2009(?) during a rare and warm January Thaw. The local newspaper, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, ran a story on unusual things to be seen outside in Wisconsin in January. Washing a car was one of them, and the paper photographer took my picture of me spraying and washing my car. I made the FRONT PAGE with a small COLOR photo for the lead-in to the story on the inside pages. What I remember most is that I dropped my garden hose brass nozzle on the driveway pavement and broke it. The picture has me with my rubber-gloved thumb over the hose end acting a sprayer to disperse the water. So much for my 10 minutes of fame. As I have said, "It is a fine line between detailing dedication and insane obsession!"
(Also as stated, Captain Obvious is "frugal" , and if I can wash a my vehicle at home rather than take it to a car tunnel wash to save a few buck, I will. However, we question whether his elevator goes all the way to the top floor sometimes. Humorist Will Rogers said it best, "I guess common sense ain`t so common.")
 
Lonnie

Sounds familiar growing up. We would always wash the vehicles in the winter on a warm day. We had a stone driveway so I can remember turning the driveway into all but a ice skating rink one time. We had a beautiful afternoon and that night it dropped in temp real quick. The next morning we could barely walk from the attached garage to our 3 bay garage.

Not long after that dad put a wood stove in the detached 3 bay garage and we washed inside from there on out


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trashmanssd said:
Lonnie your a mad man if your doing 2 bucket wash under 40 degrees, my limit is under 50. I do rinseless in garage with heat on 65 degrees and streaming netflix on the tv.
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50!?! I only wash my car in 72+, I don`t know how anyone lives anywhere where it`s like 50 or less during the damn day.
 
rlmccarty2000 said:
As a side note, it’s supposed to be 80 degrees here tomorrow. The mosquitoes and gnats think it’s springtime.
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That is one advantage to rare winter time outside car washes in Wisconsin: NO BUGS! And even if there where bugs, you are so bundled up they have no place to bite one`s skin.
Suppose to be -2°F in Green Bay tonight with a windchill of -15 to -20°F. Good time for car repair shops and towing companies, thawing out vehicles that will not start or replacing batteries that are too old to withstand the cold. NOT a good time for the city water department fixing frozen and busted water mains or sewer lines.
 
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