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He Uses Car Wash Wand To Clean Out Radiator
Glen Schweppe, Syracuse, Neb., needed a wand to clean out the space between the radiator and air conditioner condenser on his tractor. He made one for free out of an old car-washing wand that had a broken brush.
  The wand Schweppe uses has a garden hose hook-up at one end and originally had a brush at the other end. The tube was 3/4 in. in dia.
  He cut off the brush and then put the wand in a vise and flattened the cut-off end of the tube. He then folded the last 1/2 in. of the tube over on itself and flattened it to create a “pinched down” fan head that’s small enough to fit into small places. Then he carefully flattened the entire length of the tube down to a thickness of 3/8 in., providing just enough room inside the tube to allow water to go through. The last step was to drill 4 small holes just below the flattened-out end.
  “The wand measures 28 in. long. It’s small enough so I can get into confined areas, yet big enough to create a lot of water force,” says Schweppe. “I use the wand’s original shutoff valve to control water pressure.”
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Glen Schweppe, 13555 S. 32nd Rd., Syracuse, Neb. 68446 (ph 402 269-2602; gs85827@yahoo.com).


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2011 - Volume #35, Issue #5