Liquidator not hitting the spot

[Ant]

Mine too davey i never leave them in during breaks or over night or between jobs. Most of my work is on foot, once i am out the van that is me all day apart from 4 days monthly work i have which is a lot of stopping and starting

I take mine out the boab over night but tend to leave in if I have to travel in between jobs, just laziness really! I could take a leaf out of my part timers book, he doesn't use a boab, problem is he constantly drops his applicator down from up the ladder, makes me friggin jump every time!

I like @boarcity's grommet idea, complete with diagram. Brilliant.

 

[windowsurfer]

Its probably the steel channel edge that dings the boab when it doesnt slot in exactly and damages the edge of the slot, thats just enough to cause rubber damage, puncture kit is great idea, manufacturers take note, we want good boab's. A friend of mine says he has his pulex rubber in for weeks, he doesnt use a boab, makes you think

 

[kev]

I take mine out the boab over night but tend to leave in if I have to travel in between jobs, just laziness really! I could take a leaf out of my part timers book, he doesn't use a boab, problem is he constantly drops his applicator down from up the ladder, makes me friggin jump every time! I like @boarcity's grommet idea, complete with diagram. Brilliant.

I used to have the same problem with ettorre boabs and a puncture outfit sorted the problem. I was going to post photos once i had doctored the moerman boab but cant seem to find a puncture outfit lol just haven't had time to go and get one. To be honest my old unger gear is doing what i want it to do so it hasn't been a top priority but it's starting to annoy me now lol especially because so many other people are having the same problem. I've just been too busy lately trying to get work done without worrying about dodgy kit

 

[kev]

Its probably the steel channel edge that dings the boab when it doesnt slot in exactly and damages the edge of the slot, thats just enough to cause rubber damage, puncture kit is great idea, manufacturers take note, we want good boab's. A friend of mine says he has his pulex rubber in for weeks, he doesnt use a boab, makes you think

It's the way the rubber sits in the slot that is doing the damage. If you look at an unger classic boab the channel has no room to move in the slot, that is why it doesn't cause any damage and plus it's a design fault on the other boabs they are designed for the squeegee to go in the other way round from the unger classic. But if you do that you cant get your applicator out properly. There isnt enough room between the applicator and squeegee handle

 

[Dave B]

Try using a sorbo holster instead of a boab for the channels

Some people swear by them and use boab only for applicator

 

[kev]

That's a thought. I'll try that if the puncture outfit doesn't work

 

[kev]

Thanks Kev. I think you're right about the ends having to be dead straight, mine are not as I struggle to get them bang on! Will work on that. I have glued a piece of squeegee rubber over the divider of my boab but I think it's too fat, causing the rubber to bend over which creates a kink so I think your puncture repair patch idea is better. Nice one. I'll let you know how I get on.

It's the corners you need to worry about rather than the middle but just cover the corners and the middle, use two patches if you need to

 

[Dave B]

Can't remember who bit someone had a good idea of pouring plastidip in the boab and then pouring back out to leave a rhin rubber coating on the whole lot

 

[MrBump]

I ain't a trad guy, so I don't know if this would work... but you could spray the inside of your boab with spray-can type glue and then unravel a condom (or a long balloon) and put it inside the top of the boab, then fill the condom with water to inflate it to the size and shape of the inside of the boab. Then leave the glue to dry. Then empty the water and wollaah, squeegee protection by durex :thumbsup:

 

[Dave B]

Been married 16 years..what's a condom??

I vaguely remember that word

 

[MrBump]

It's that thing you put over your head and blow it up to make yourself look like an alien

 

[Ant]

It's the corners you need to worry about rather than the middle but just cover the corners and the middle, use two patches if you need to

think I'm gonna have a mare trying to remove the glued bit of rubber I stuck on! Probably end up carving it to bits. Might have to buy another Ninja, will definitely try the patches if I do, or I may even go back to an Unger classic, the boab I used when I first started window cleaning, and use a holster for my other squeegee. Manufacturers could do better with their designs though.

 

[cheapncheerful]

I could take a leaf out of my part timers book, he doesn't use a boab, problem is he constantly drops his applicator down from up the ladder, makes me friggin jump every time!

hi and welcome to the forum ant love your avatar...er...I think we can all guess what your part timers name is...

yeh daveyboy I think a condom is something to use if you overdose on viagra...as I know what it did to me in my brief period with them..

great idea though...mr bump you get a blue peter badge for that..

 

[Dave B]

Tried viagra..got stuck in me throat..had a stiff neck for 2 days

Seriously that stuff gives me headaches..my mate gets as many as anyone needs

I stick to thisView attachment 4741just had this bottle and 2 strongbows this evening and can't be arsed with all that loving mularkey

Stick to the booze it's safer lol

 

[MrBump]

Champagne daveyboy, whats the celebration? Or are you just celebrating getting too drunk to bother tuffering... /emoticons/biggrin.png I'm not surprised, you need to save your energy for running away from those wardons!/emoticons/wink.png

 

[Ant]

Hi mate, thanks for the welcome. Yes my part timers name, it basically varies depending on my mood

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[MrBump]

But he's mostly called Dec right..

 

[Dave B]

The champagne was a prezzie for my birthday last week but i am quite partial to the odd bottle of prossecco now and then

And my homebrew wine

 

[MrBump]

Ahh, in that case happy birthday for last week!

 

[cheapncheerful]

yep he had a bloody good birthday too...getting dragged off to paris by his other half...:cheers: :birthday:

but my eldest daughter did give me a 400gram toblerone this morning for fathers day...it lasted a short while...I did save the wifey one piece as you do...

 

[Ant]

But he's mostly called Dec right..

Just so you know, I did find your Dec joke funny but due to my lack of experience on social networking sites, I couldn't for the life of me work out how to rate it funny with the little smiley face! So.../emoticons/smile.png